Dear Family:
Hello. Great to hear from you guys. Sisi. Don’t ever tell me that ever again. It was cool to hear from dad. I also got an email from Brother Hansen. I will print that off later today.
Today we cleaned the apartment for personal study, companionship study, and language study. It ended with three dumpster size trash bags full of stuff that had been there for years. We found a box of old mo men jing's. That's the old translation of the book of Mormon in Chinese.
Ok so I bought a 2011 daily schedule thing. I’ve been using it to write at least one miracle a day for this whole year. It’s my miracle book. I'm trying this out to like start seeing things in like a better light. If that makes sense. Just to try and has a more positive attitude. So I'm going to type what I wrote in there for each day. They are all really short.
Monday: We gave Kevin a goal to quit smoking, and to quit chewing betel nut, and to quit his job as a pimp. All within a month. He also said he thought God was telling him to get baptized. Sweet.
Tuesday: Today Elder Summerhays threw up three times and didn't die. And I didn't die laughing. We saw the homeless member of our ward sleeping on church property. I passed lesson 3 of phase 1 off.
Wednesday: We added 13 new investigators in the rain. We found a fairly cheap authentic Mexican restaurant where they only speak Spanish. Soooo good.
Thursday: Kevin committed (again) to stop chewing bin lang. We gave a priesthood blessing to a super cute Asian baby. We ate vegetarian and didn't die.
Friday: I passed my midway phase 1 pass off.
Saturday: I ate raw fish at an all you can eat Japanese restaurant. And didn't throw up. I met with someone I contacted over three months ago. And taught him and his friend by myself.
Sunday: We had seven people at church. One of them was the drunken guy we met about 3 weeks ago. We had a record breaking 141 people attend our ward sacrament meeting. Our awesome district of 3 companionships got a total of 25 investigators at church. We fixed everything with xu di xiong. We saw monkeys while we were proselyting, not while hiking monkey mountain.
Ok so that was my week. So yes mother we had (I would say) lots of people at church. But it was kind of sad because two of our most promising investigators did not come. Right now about 90% of our investigators have a smoking problem. And the two that didn't come, didn't come because they feel embarrassed being the only people at church who smoke. Or at least they feel a little bu hao yi se. And one of them is one of the part member families we are teaching. That was the only sad part of yesterday. Oh, and as you can see we gave a priesthood blessing to a baby. She is the super cute baby that I took pictures of a few weeks ago. She and her mom were both sick. The Sister missionaries told her that we could give them a blessing. And now the baby is all better and back to her cute little self.
Our recent convert is doing so well. He came for all three hours without us having to call him. He participated in class. He is getting the Aaronic priesthood next week. And he has a home teacher already. He is just doing awesome and the whole ward loves him.
Today we are going to an all you can eat pizza hut. its 250 Yuen and that’s about $8 US. Sweet.
Love Elder Graham
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