Hello everyone!
I can't believe it is already the end of October! Time is teleporting and it's freaking me out!
This week went really well. We're super busy all week and got to teach a good amount of new investigators!
We taught a guy by the name of Duan Dixiong. He is super cool and very interested in hearing more about our message. He asked us if we wanted to smoke with him but we said were good lol. He made me feel like I was back in the MTC with how hard he was to understand. He was talking about super random stuff and he had a gnarly accent!
Then, we taught some people at the end of the week by the name of Leo and Eric. We were just about to leave the neighborhood we were in when we ran into Leo. He was in AWE we spoke Chinese and asked if we could go sit down with him. We followed him over to his "Tea Table" and he started pouring us tea. We weaseled our way out of it and ended up with bottled water!
We taught him and another guy in the house the Restoration. He was very interested and we hope to meet with him again soon!
On Sunday, we had 4 investigators come to church, Deng, Jing, Diana and Anglea. It was a great day and super stressful, as usual! We had a less active member also come by the name of Tony Ding, that was a miracle in itself. He fed us on Friday and gave us cow tail!!! Just another weird thing Iv'e eaten that I can add to the list.
However he came to church so I'll eat cow tail all day if he will come to church! 😁 After church we taught Diana the Plan of Salvation and the Word of Wisdom with no problems! She is planning on being baptized on the 12th! She asked us if next time we can teach her everything so she can be baptized quicker lol.
All in all it was a great week and we're excited for this last week of the transfer! Bless up in the CRM!
Elder Nelson 孙长老
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Halloween Package from Mama Nelson
Halloween Package from Mama Willes
Ben told a funny story about having the opportunity to eat cow tail. Chinese people are so kind and love to serve and feed you A LOT! Elder Willes and Ben were eating with Tony when he served then the cow tail and Ben was already REALLY full. He tried to serve himself a plate, but Tony was so kind and did it for him. Ben was really worried and didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings so he asked to use the restroom where he prayed to Heavenly Father to PLEASE help him eat all the food. He ended up being just fine and found out cow tail isn't that bad! So in Ben's words: "Bless Up!"
Ben told us that they are almost out of miles on their car for the month. They drive a lot because they are looking for specific people so they do tend to drive everywhere. They needed to save those miles so they figured they will try to walk a few places. They pray to Heavenly Father that He will place some people in their path because they are to be looking for Chinese people so they have to hope that they can just randomly run into them. They ended up finding some people that invited them in and were willing to hear their message. As they got teaching they realized that they had left the extra BOM's in the car which was parked about 5 minutes away. They worried about having to exit the conversation, hoping they would even let them back in to go get those books, but they took a chance. In Ben's words: "So here are me and Elder Willes, in our suits, booking it as fast as we can back to the car to get the books and then booking it back. We had people looking at us wondering what the heck was going on! LOL" They got back and everthing worked out so hopefully we will hear more update on that encounter!
Another wonderful blessing this week was on Sunday Ben and Elder Willes walk in and see a bunch of Chinese people sitting on the front row. They didn't recognize most of them except one. He was a man that lives with Brother Ding so they got really excited! They got even more excited when they found out that Brother Ding was there too! Brother Ding hasn't come for about a year. He struggles with the members, but he is trying. He came with his hair cut, a suit and brought all of his friends! Ben and Elder Willes could not be more excited to have him participating in the gospel again.
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