Life is full of SURPRISES!

​​​​​​​WOW! What A Week!
Wasai!
Wow the Lord has blessed us so much this week I can't even begin to express! To try and even attempt to explain this whole week is super difficult but I'll give you a small rundown.

This was the last week of the transfer! Me and Elder Willes worked super hard to get some good numbers this week and help our investigators as much as possible. We met with the majority of our investigators and man... they are doing AMAZING! I just love them so much and they are soooo nice! 

All the craziness started on Saturday. We taught Charlee and Brother Zhang. Charlee's lesson was super sweet! But then Brother Zhang "paused us" in person, which was super lame! But, such is missionary life!

Anyways-later that night we received our phone calls about transfers and to my complete SURPRISE, Elder Willes was transferred to Eastvale (another Chinese area). 😲 So that shocked us both, especially with how well we are doing! So... we both have new comps. Mine is Elder Yang, he's from China! So after all of that, we had our last Sunday with our investigators!

We went to church that morning and our translation machine broke so we just hoped that they could feel the spirit lol! Then one after another they all showed up! We had 6 investigators at church!! We had our own little "Chinese Squad" at church, which was amazing! They all loved it and said they would be there again next Sunday! Elder Willes after church told them he was leaving, which was super sad. Sister Lin started crying and they were all super bummed about it! But me and Elder Yang are going to help these hunks continue to feel the spirit and grow!

In conclusion we had an amazing week with 6 on date for baptism, 6 at church and 4 new investigators! 

The Lord has blessed us a ton #Hallelujah!

Sorry I have very little pics this week!

孫長老 Sun Zhanglao! ​ 

Elder Nelson

Ben told the funniest story about being on splits with Elder Beals (Spanish Speaking). His words:

Elder Beals and I were together waiting for their English class to start when I told him I was going to use the restroom first since I am the one that knows Chinese and can greet people. As I was in the restroom, I went to flush and when I bent down all of my English cards "threw up" in the water and got wrecked. I am panicking and fishing out as many as I can, as fast as I can and I hear the door open. I think it's Elder Beals so I peek over the stall and I am about to tell him what just happened and how salty I am that I just lost all my cards and I see this Chinese guy I don't know. I walk out to throw away the rest of the cards and I look at him and say, "Hey how are ya?" The man just stares at me because he speaks NO English and I think, "Sweet, my people!" I ask, "Can you speak Chinese?" The man then gets excited and keeps repeating, "China, China" So I start talking to him in Chinese and by this point the man is using the restroom and he starts FREAKING OUT that I can speak to him. He starts telling me that he is late for a class and that he needs to hurry. I am thinking, "It's the English class because that is the only one going on." We both walk out together and he has a friend waiting for him. I start speaking to the friend in Chinese who then throws himself back and starts freaking out that the "white kid" is speaking his language. As we continue talking I find out that they only came over to use the bathroom. But I was able to talk with both of them, found out they are Christian and that they just happen to be at the building the same time I was and I speak Chinese. We were able to set up an appt. time to meet with them. I'm not saying the church is true...😏 well I know it's true-but what are the odds?? SO COOL! 

Later in the week when they met with a Brother Zhang, who they had met with once before, he had just gotten back from San Francisco for a week. When he met with the Elders again Ben said, "When he walked in he had a man bun so he was a WINNER in my book already. Then he told us he had talked to his parents and that we weren't good and so he paused us. But props to him for doing it in person. We usually can't get people to even call us back." 

Ben is absolutely loving his "Asian Squad" as he calls them, and loving every part of his mission-even the surprises! 😏 

 Just a group of AWESOME Elders!

I know they don't really call it "tracting" anymore, but this kid sure walks a lot. Who doesn't want a little treat when you're on the go? (He looks tired😟)