Monday, March 21, 2011

March 20, 2011 - Focusing on our recent converts

Hello Family and other people!
Just so you guys know, if you go on my facebook and look at my friends, you can look at a lady's facebook and find the cutest asian baby pictures. Her name is Pinky. She is one of the sisters' recent converts, and her baby is soooo cute and at church yesterday, she kept on reaching her hands at me and wanted me to hold her, but its against the rules.... I don't like that rule. All of the other ones are good, but I really don't like the not holding babies rule.

To answer your e-mails:

Way to go Sisi for getting grounded! Now you can read scriptures and do your homework.
Sisi... Be careful with boys. When I get back I have to interview each date you have.
Yes Kami I played soccer. And I write in my journal most days. I will have to buy a new one soon. I've almost filled mine up.

ugg. xu wen hao said he didn't want to come to church anymore because it "makes him tired". 藉口!!!!!!!! So yes, smoking is a big problem.
Taiwanese pb tastes like reeses peanut butter.
Yes I have been out for a year. But!!!!! I haven't hit my halfway mark yet. so yeah.
xiao4fa3 效法 is just the scriptural way of saying follow/to follow an example.
I can testify that a study journal is awesome because I've kept one and wrote in it every day for the last 50 or 60 days and its really cool to look back and see what I've done. My list is in the back of my journal. Its just a small list right now.

It's time once again for MONDAY MADNESS!
Monday: Today was good because we found out that because chen di xiong got baptized at least 3 more people are investigating the church and want to be baptized. His daughter, his daughter's friend and his daughters friends daughter are all getting baptized in two weeks. They saw how he changed his life and quit smoking and now they will do anything to be baptized.
Tuesday: Change yesterday's number to 4. Chen di xiong's daughter's friend's mom wants to be baptized also. She went to the nearest chapel where she lives and just sat outside the church until someone came and said she wanted to be baptized. Sweet.
Wednesday: Today was CDTM and during the Presidents interview he hinted that I might go senior.
Thursday: Today I learned some sweet Taiwanese.
Friday: Sun said he wants to become a missionary. And Chen di xiong said he wants the priesthood so he can baptize his daughter.
Saturday: Chen di xiong told us that before he was baptized his hand would shake like an old man. But after he got baptized his hand stopped shaking as bad, which is good because his hobby is painting.
Sunday: We had a good 8 investigators at church, but even better we had 6 out of 11 recent converts at church. That's double the mission average. We also found out that our recent convert chen zhong liang will be baptizing the sisters investigator who will be baptized in 6 days.

Yay for monday madness. Well that's about all I got for today. This week went by really fast. We had lots of lessons but we didn't find very many new people to teach. We also have been focusing a lot on our recent converts. Oh yeah. Yesterday two of the 70 came to our ward and spoke and had some good things to say. One said that President Monson's "theme" is "rescue". And that it is everybody's responsibility to help bring those who have drifted away to come back into the fold.

See ya in a year,
桂長老
桂俊杰
Elder Graham

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