February 2, 2015

Transfers!

So this is the start of the second week of transfers. Last week we had
a few changes to our district and zone. One of our zone leaders that I
really loved elder Sears got Transferred but thats ok because his
replacement seems just as fun and great! Also Elder Silva a friend
from back home just got moved into the Spanish companionship in our
district! We played little league football together back in the day
and we have a lot of common friends! He is a year younger than me but
weve been out for just about the same amount of time. Its nice to see
a familiar face! I don't know him too well though so it'll be sweet to
get to know him better. Also we got an elder from the phliilpines!
Elder Cayabyab :) thats a fun name. Elder Bird also was made District
leader. I think thats going to be good because he needed a little
change and some more responsibility! He has been in the same area for
basically 16 months! That would be rough! Everything is going good so
far with the transfers.

We had dinner with Sister Minchin and her family this week, she is a
returned missionary form Taiwan. Her Chinese is pretty ok and they have
a Chinese student living with them nameed Ziyi. She is really nice and
were trying to practice the lesson with sister Minchin and we asked
her if she would like to sit in on them and she said sure. Its been
going well and were eating with them again this week! We have a good
friend Aaron who has been coming to church a little bit and is a
really cool guy. We met with him and his friend Lionel this week to
get to know them and their religious back grounds. Aaron has actually
been baptized and has been going to a bunch of different churches to
see what he likes. Also his English is very fluent, I thought he was
from Canada the first time I met him! His friend Lionel is also really
cool but polar opposite of Aaron in the sense that his English is not
very good at all and the only thing he knows about Christians is that
he heard his grandma say amen every once in a while when she would
pray. Wow haha its a little difficult teaching them but I think it
should work out ok in the end.

Chris Is still doing great. He is probably going to get baptized
sometime this month. He has a problem with putting his Chinese name on
the records because he thinks if china gets a hold of that he won't be
able to get a job because of some groups that he is in. We talked to
president about it and he said to tell chris that its totally
confidentialy and there is no way for them to get it. Hopefully it
helps because that was the only thing holding him back. Green tea
might also be a problem but were talking to him about that this week.
He invited us over for dinner and cooked us a super great Chinese
meal! He lives in the basement of a really tiny house and the ceiling
is only like 6 and a half feet tall... it made me a little sad for him
because he is 30 going to school, living in this really cheap place
and I think hoped to be in bigger better places than where he is at.
On the other hand im so excited for him, He has read the bible 3
times, and is almost done with Alma even though he only started 2
weeks ago! How crazy is that! I cant wait for the fullness of the
Gospel to bless his life more and more as he builds his testimony and
shows his faith in Christ!

Yiming our member friend took us out to lunch so that was nice, but he
drank green tea right in front of us so he obviously doesn't have a
very strong testimony of the word of wisdom but I hope he can build
his testimony! Most/all Chinese members struggle with understanding
and keeping a strong testimony even with fellowshippers and
missionaries following up. We are working hard on keeping our members
active but it is pretty hard!

Saturday we had 3 lessons fall through but we also met some new people
at our pingpong activity so it kind worked out.

That's basically all for this week! I hope everybody knows how awesome
they are :)!

Love U GUYS!!