Feb 6, 2011 - Chinese New Year & Mr. Chen Baptism

Dear Family,

I haven't gotten an email from you guys yet but that's OK because its not your fault. This week is power week which means we get out the door at 930 instead of 1030 in the morning. But I thought I should start writing. This week was super slow because of Chinese New Year. Which means everyone goes back to where they grew up. Which means all the big cities are pretty much empty. And guess where this Elder is. Right in the center of downtown Kaohsiung. (高雄). So pretty much everyone that we did talk to, lives in taizhong or china or somewhere else. Oh well. We got taken out to eat by a lot of members and had "real" Taiwanese food. yummy. Sorry I don't have any pictures of that.

We did have a baptism this week which was awesome! It was cool because Mr. Chen (陳) had to give up drinking every night to not drinking and it was awesome because he slept better and instead of drinking, he would read the Book of Mormon. He is a sweet, old, fat taxi driver who loves church more than anything else in his life. Its awesome.

OK everybody clap your hands for...... Miracle Madness!
Monday: We got to go to Costco. Oh yeah
Tuesday: We had nine total lessons today. Sweet.
Wednesday: We got to go to the island to eat "real" Taiwanese food. And I didn't throw up. A miracle!
Thursday: We got taken out to smoky Joe's. Sooo good. And it was zone conference. Double whammy.
Friday: We got to see my best 93 year old friend, Cha Di Xiong. Love that man. Also the homeless Buddhist guy that we see everywhere, that thinks we are so evil that he wont touch us or even shake our hands, asked me to loan him money so he could buy alcohol to drink on new years.
Saturday: Chen di xiong got baptizzled.
Sunday: We had 105 people at church even though it was Chinese new year. 陳 (Chen) got confirmed.

So that's it for the miracles. Right now we are focusing on finding new investigators. Now that Mr. Chen got baptized, we don't have any people with baptismal dates. We have lots of investigators that are willing to meet and stuff but that aren't "progressing". So if anybody knows anyone here....
So at zone conference we got new copies of the Book of Mormon in English so that we could focus our studies on finding and highlighting 1. The names of Christ. 2. Attributes of Christ. 3. Words of Christ 4. The Doctrine of Christ. (Faith, Repentance, Baptism, Gift of the Holy Ghost, and Enduring to the End)
Its been really good.
I've also been reading through the Bible. There was something from my gospel study journal I was going to write to you guys. But I forgot. Sorry. Maybe next week.

Love, Elder Graham