We got transfer news this week and me and my companion are
both staying. Which is good cause I've got some people I wasn't ready to say
goodbye to just yet, also it’s Thursday so I can't be missing that. 2 new
elders are coming back to μμ΄ though! Pros and cons of that:
Cons: there goes my personal bathroom, clothes room, and
other room that we don't use
Pros: everything else
It's gonna be awesome! And the weather's finally getting
warmer here, today was the first actual warm day in a while
Highlights: we met with a man named ν¨μλ¬
this week. We found him while calling old random numbers and set up a meeting.
He came and picked us up, and we went to a park, and we started talking. Almost
immediately, he pulled out two books, one titled "when that day
comes" and the other, "the traces He left behind". So, I figured
we were about to get into a deep doctrinal discussion. Turns out, he wrote the
two books. And he spent the next hour explaining in depth all the connections
between Chinese characters and Christianity and things like that.
I tried to explain why the Chinese language has so many
connections to God and Jesus Christ, but he wasn't very interested in that. He
signed the two books and gave them to me to keep though so that's fun I guess. Also,
right before he was leaving he was like "so whenever you wanna meet again
you should call me!" And then was like "WAIT. No... I'll call you.
I'll call you...when it rains...." and I swear I remember him waving his
arm through the air in a Wizarding manner as he said when it rains, maybe for
dramatic effect. For a second I felt like it was in a Disney show or something.
But anyway, it rained all weekend, and he didn't call so yeah idk
We have our English class on Thursday nights, but recently
we have two more additions: English class on Saturday afternoon and English
class on Friday morning. The Saturday afternoon idea just started when someone
wanted to meet for English at that time, so after a few weeks we started
inviting the people who couldn't come on Thursdays, and it turned out well!
One day, we got a call from someone we know saying her
daughter wants to learn English. So, we called her daughter, who invited us to
her English club. To our surprise, we found 5 really nice people who all want
to learn English who were just trying to learn on their own through this little
club. We attended the club and became friends and then ate some food after.
They invited us to keep attending, which we accepted, and we're going try and
move this club into the church and combine it with our other class. Hopefully
that will work, because when we teach the English class at the church, the
short spiritual thought at the end is sometimes the only way we get to share
about the gospel to people in the church building, which can play a big role in
a lot of these people's conversion, since most of the time they wouldn't listen
otherwise.
We heard a statistic the other day by our mission president,
and I think it was like 70% of the baptisms in our mission are people who
originally had interest in learning English and were found through English
class. But for a lot of them it takes years of coming to our church and English
class before they are ready. So that's why I think putting a lot of effort into
just getting people to the church regularly even just to learn English is
important.
Other highlight, we found a new guy who's 75 and crazy at
ping pong who came to play with us.
Picture of us after randomly seeing λ¨μλ at
the market today so we went to eat together.
μ μ¨ μ₯λ‘
Also, Happy Mother’s Day!
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