To start out the email, I want to give a huge shout out to my Brother Keldon! He took 1st place in the SC wrestling tournament! It is a regional tournament, and he beat up on everyone! He also took 2nd place at state!!!!! I was not even close to that my junior year!! He has the heart of a warrior. He is a stud wrestler, and I'm scared to try and wrestle him when I get back! I'm so proud of him. Watch out for him next year!
Earlier on in the week, we met this family that was really interested to meet. Unfortunately, they forgot their number and the wood houses don't really have an address, so they promised to call when they got home. Well, they never called haha. So we lost them! We kinda forgot about them for a while, and then last Monday guess what happened? They walked into the internet place where we were! Within the two hours that we come to the store once a week, they came :) we got their number and set up an appointment!
Afterwards we headed to the beach! There was a ton of cool stuff there! There are cool docs that you can walk out to, and even an abandoned ship! We wanted to go explore in it, but it was not reachable by missionary standards :) we brought some fire food (meaning a bed frame that we accidentally broke in the house)
For District Meeting I trained on "Bringing 'em and keeping' em" It is one thing to bring people to Church, but another thing to keep them at church! We talked about how we can help people have a spiritual experience at church so they never want to miss a week! Elder Don R. Clarke of the Seventy shared some great insight on helping investigators have a spiritual experience at church. He specifically focuses on what they can do during the sacrament(communion): pray to know if the church is true, and give gratitude for the Atonement of Christ. Let's all try this next week!
We were heading our way over to a member's house, when we saw a guy walking down the street. We turned around and it turns out he was a former investigator of about 3 years! My teacher in the MTC (Sister Yuen) taught him last! He said that his heart is finally opened and is ready to learn and be baptized! It was a miracle :)
You thought the 4th of July was crazy? Try Chinese New Year, it's insane! There are fireworks going off the entire night for 2 DAYS! People go around and play the drums while people are in those dragon costumes. Pretty cool!
Fun fact: we met the very person that made the granite "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" sign for our Church!
I had the opportunity to give a talk in sacrament meeting on Sunday! The topic was: "How can we be spiritually self reliant?
I broke it into three stages, and first compared it to our temporal lives.
1st stage: completely reliant on others (like when we were babies)
2nd stage: somewhat reliant (like when we were teenagers)
3rd stage: self reliant (like when we are already married, in college, or have a job).
Then I flipped it around but with a spiritual view:
1st stage: completely reliant (Relying completely on our parents testimony, the missionaries, or other people's testimonies).
2nd stage: somewhat reliant(we have a testimony, but it is not very strong, so we still need the crutch of someone else)
3rd stage: spiritually self reliant (we have a strong testimony and have an understanding of the Atonement of Jesus Christ).
How can we get to that 3rd stage? I talked about CPR.
Church, Praying, and Reading.
If we take time each day to have meaningful prayer and scripture study, I promise your life will be filled with greater direction and happiness, and you wil able to identity with clarity and conviction the promptings of the Holy Ghost.
If you attend Church because you want to and not because you have to, that Church will give you a glimpse of what heaven feels like. If sincere preparation is taken place to make Church a spiritual experience, I promise you will have a Temple-like experience.
I hope everyone has a great week!!
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