Dec 19, 2010 New Comp is baptizing machine!

Dear Family,
Hello. So this week was pretty interesting I think. So I have spent an entire week with my new companion Elder Summerhays. It is no wonder every one says he is a baptizing machine. So sweet. He is about my height which is awesome. So we have gotten a lot done. We've been talking to everyone. We have met lots of interesting people. With Elder Summerhays as our district leader, our district has improved a lot. Its really cool. But this weekend our district had 6 total baptismal interviews. Which would be awesome because... Well that's a lot of people and that number matches how many people are in our district! So yeah that's really cool but the problem is.. Well not only did we run out of baptismal interview forms, but our entire zone is out! I guess we just baptize way too much. But you know. That's our job. That's what I am talking about.
Yesterday at church we had this one guy come who lives under the train station(homeless) and when we met him he had a huge bandage on his head. When we contacted him he started crying and telling us how he has been to church lots of times and he wants to change his life. But today when he came to church he saw how many people where and church and he freaked out and started to leave. But then some people from our ward started speaking in Tai yu (Taiwanese) to him and he still was very intent on leaving and he talked to us for a minute and he told us that he had tried to commit suicide and that's why he had the big bandage. And we were like "that's why you need to come to church. We want to help you." anyway. He left and we were sad. But he said that he would "for sure" come next week. We shall see.
Also yesterday we sat down with an old investigator that neither of us have met before. He was so cool. He was asking questions like: Why are there so many churches? I just want to know which one is Gods true church. And almost every "Questions of the soul" (See Preach My Gospel page 107) Anyway he was so cool. He has the biggest stomach I have ever seen.

Thanks for the Cristmas package! Ummm so I'm sorry but I had to take some money out today. I had to send some packages home and our leaders told us to take out some personal money for the Christmas activity.

Ok so we figured it out. I am going to call at six in the morning here. I'm still really confused about when that will be. But it should be sometime Christmas night/afternoon for you guys. or in the afternoon like 3 in the afternoon according to our phone but it could be like an hour ish off. We have to do it that early because we have church at 830 and we have to switch off using the home phone in our apartment. So yes I will buy a cheap calling card and call you guys!

Anyway. You guys should be getting a few packages in the mail in like a week or so. open the smallest one first.

Ok so I contacted this guy and he told me he had been a member for over twenty years. He hasn't been to church in about five years. Anyway he has a mental problem because a drunk driver hit him and now he cant find work and needs lots of help just finding food to eat and stuff like that. Right now he is very thankful. I'm sorry this was short. We don't have lots of time today because we have a baptismal interview to do for the other Elders. I'll try and write as much as possible.
This week we figured out that you get rewarded in random ways that only God knows when you just work your hardest. In the last few days we randomly found lots of willing people
K I have to go sorry this was short.

See ya in two years,
桂长老
桂俊杰
Elder Graham