October 9, 2011 - Conference & meeting some really cool people

Dear family and anybody else that listens,

So I finally figured out my battery problem, it wasn't charging properly.
Conference was way good. We got to watch the whole thing this time! The only problem is that I filled up my Gospel Study Journal that mom got me before I left on my mission. sad face. But I will buy another one today. So yeah it was pretty good.

Yesterday we went with the bishop and the first counselor to a really old member's house and she is like in her 80's and she wanted us to give her non-member husband a blessing. He is 86. He is 大陸人. Mainland Chinese. Super old. But he is sick and needed a blessing. Afterwords the first counselor asked him if he wanted to hear the gospel. He said yes. So our newest investigator is 86 years old and doesn't speak Taiwanese. Sweet. I've always wanted to baptize somebody that old. But the only problem is his body is so frail and small. We would need AT LEAST 3 people in the water with him to baptize him. But the bishop said that would be OK. Sweet

It isn't as cold anymore, but all the members say that it will get really cold and extremely windy in like 3 weeks.

So this week we met some really cool people. Including an 11 year old kid who knows members and went to the zoo with our stake a few weeks ago. What happened is we went to visit a less active/ part member family. And they weren't there even after calling before hand and asking if we could come over. On the way out of the neighborhood a super drunk guy yelled "HEEELLLLLOOOOOOO!!!" And I'm not way into talking to drunk people but my companion was like, "lets go talk to that guy!". Of course I didn't want to, but the guy was really nice even though he was WASTED. And his drunk wife was really nice too. They belong to "The True Jesus Church" "真耶穌教會". But they were very welcoming and they said that their son had gone to the zoo with some of the members of our church. We talked to the kid and he is very interested because he has a friend already in the church. I distracted the drunk family and kept them busy talking about how in America we only eat hamburgers. (and how my companion had cheese on his burgers and that is why he is so much taller than me). While I was having this ridiculous conversation, my companion was having a good conversation about the Book of Mormon with the 11 year old kid. We gave him a book of Mormon and prayed with him. I learned my lesson about talking to EVERYBODY. Even if they are drunk and chewing bin lang and smoking. They might have a kid that is golden. I am very glad that my companion had the feeling and the guts to go talk to the drunk family.

Well Elder Graham has to go now.

See ya in a year,

桂長老桂俊杰

Elder Graham