Baptisms!

Hey everyone!

Verbatim:

Maybe it was a poor mosquito, so you're feeding the poor and fulfilling your baptismal covenant.--Elder Welch on me complaining about getting attacked by a mosquito.

 

This is the perfect finding opportunity! They're all on hospital beds, they can't get away!--Me when we went to the hospital looking for service.

 

We can tell her that there are sharks in the water, but in case we can't buy a shark or find one, we need a backup plan.--Elder Welch in response to my question, "How do we help Sister Guo come to church?" (she always goes up to JiLong and swims on Sundays)

 

Sister Taylor touches your little ear thing too?!? I'm telling President.--Me with Elder Zou on exchanges

 

Me: It's an epic quest! Far more exciting than saving a princess! We're saving souls!

Elder Welch: Well, you never know, one of them could be a princess.......for someone.....---While knocking on night

 

Elder Welch: Lebron James.

Me: Yeah........

Brother Lu: Oh yeah, Kobe just called me a minute ago too. So did A-Rod."--While meeting with Brother Lu, the phone went off and it was the kid who calls himself Lebron and just bugs the crap out of us. Hilarious.

 

There's a way out...........SIN!--Elder Welch on me wanting to make banana pie and take it to a member's house but not having bananas at the time and needing to get them. It was Saturday night at about ten, so there weren't any options to get the bananas needed without breaking commandments. We made no-bake cookies instead.

 

Well this week was a good one because Brother Chen got baptized! It was a sweet service and he was ecstatic to be baptized. While sharing his testimony, he told us how he feels like God gave him a good present that morning because he'd just found the BOM and Bible for his phone, that way he can read them all the time. It was so cool!

So this week was also really cool because there was one day where we didn't have anything really scheduled as far as lessons for the whole day and we just went finding. I contacted this guy early in the day that set up with us for later that day. While we were waiting for him later I had this feeling to go and talk to this guy on the corner who was waiting for the light. At this time the guy we set up was nearly ten minutes late and wasn't answering his phone, so we thought it was unlikely that he was actually coming anymore. I talked to the guy on the corner and he seemed really open. I asked about his religious background and he shared that he was Christian but he doesn't really believe much anymore. I talked about the restoration a little bit and asked if he wanted to go upstairs and talk in the chapel. He practically bellowed a resounding, "YES!" and up we went. We sat down and began to talk and he expressed his excitement about the Restoration. As we shared, the Holy Ghost was really strong and it helped out a lot. In the end he accepted the BOM with great excitement and he also expressed his desire to read and know more. It was a really cool miracle to see that God let us set up a person just to put us in the right place to find the person who He'd really prepared.

 

That's about all from me. Peace out!

Love,

Elder Siebert (Trunk-stache extraordinare)

Another baptism!

Hey everyone,

Verbatim:

Sadly, I forgot my planner at home so I don't have the verbatim this week. Oh, I remembered a little of it.

 

Brother Lin: I've been really busy lately, I have to prepare stuff like Noah's Ark because the end of the world is coming.

Me: Oh, don't worry, God hasn't told us yet when the end is, so you can still take some time and meet with us. It's not a big deal.

Brother Lin: He's told me.

Me: Oh........................................................

 

Brother Yuan: I remembered my past life. I'm a God. I came down here to save the world. I also killed my son in my past life because he wouldn't be obedient.--Brother Yuan while meeting with him. He had been getting really close to baptism.

Xiang3Xiang: Oh, our stuff is all in there.

Me: Okay. (close door. Freeze. Turn and look at Elder Lew) Their stuff is all inside?

( He looks at me and the devil enters into both of us and we run back into the church and giggle as we hide all their stuff)--When we were leaving the chapel while the YM/YW were cleaning the chapel.

 

I think that's all for the verbatim that I can just remember.

 

FOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

White sauce, Cheese Broiled Stinky Tofu: Oh man, I totally saw this on a menu and I hadn't ever had it before so I thought that I would have to try it out. It was amazing. The flavors just mix so well. It makes the cheese taste super duper sharp and the sauce kind of mellows it a little. 5 stupendously stinky soys out of 5.

 

Beef Roll: It's basically the chinese version of a taquito. I still like the mexican version better especially Reyna's, but this wasn't bad. 4 China men from Mexico out of 5

 

We are also excited that we have an investigator that has passed his interview. Brother Chen has been making a lot of progress lately and has a great testimony. The other day he came to the church with a really big question because he saw some pamphlets from another church that said some miracles that happened there and he asked us, "Why would a miracle happen outside of His Church?" It was a really good testament of how much he believes in the Church.

The work is going really well. We are stoked.

That's it. Really.
Love you all,

Elder Siebert

PS Hey, I forgot to tell you about the wasabi strike this week. I took this tube of wasabi that I had to this dumpling wrapping activity that we had and I totally made a wasabi dumpling. Me and Sister Taylor (who has as much devil as I do) worked in coordination and pulled the heist. It was awesome. Elder Lew ate half of it, knowing that it was the wasabi one and he was completely red in the face and crying and phlegm everywhere. It was hilarious. Then Sister Taylor wanted to make another one to surprise someone with so we wrapped a double peel one and gave it to Sister Wu and she nearly died before spitting it. So fun.

Major Baptismal Fury!

Dearest D,

This week was so good. I loved your letter this week and it was so funny. I was blown away. I snickered the whole time. I was on exchanges with the elder that is now my real companion and I gave it to him to read and he was laughing the whole time and it was great. I am prophetic these days. Elder Welch was on exchange with me and I told him, you could just leave your stuff here because you're going to come here on Friday and be my comp anyway. It happened. It was hilarious. He's a good guy. I like him. Hey, everyone tells me that I have lost tons of weight lately even though I haven't really because I've been putting on muscle, but I have found the most magical way to cut down on body fat. If you eat only from 11 or 12 to 6 and then nothing after that until the next day at about noon, you can eat normal (or for me above normal amounts of food) and cut down body fat percentage. It's a really great system. It's been working wonders and I think that if you tried it out, you would be really pleased with it. Anyway, you could also wait til I get back and I'll walk you through it. Oh, I am so tight with Sister Day, President's wife. At move calls she called me out and had me stand up and raise the roof. It was hilarious. She always comes and specially shakes my hand whenever she sees me. It's so cool.
Love you so much dad!

Matt

 

Hey everyone!

This week there were two people baptized and three confirmed! It was so good! I was so happy to see what the Lord has blessed us with here in Songshan. It's been great.

 

Verbatim:

I learned so many good things from you...I'll look in the mirror a lot now.--Elder Zeng on us going our separate ways. He's commenting on how I always make faces in the mirrors in elevators.

You make a cool tongue twister and it blows their minds.--Elder Robinson

 

We are going to go find Chen2Yi4Han2 (who is in my opinion, the most beautiful actress/model in Taiwan) for Elder Siebert's bye-bye book, please bless us and make preparations--Elder Zeng, praying for us to find a picture opportunity. I felt slightly sacrelidgious.

 

I noticed his fishing gear and talked to him about it. You could say I hooked him. --Elder Welch while contacting

 

This week brought many miracles with following the spirit to find people to teach. We were coming back from Nangang when I saw a person sitting on a corner by a light. The feeling came to me that I needed to turn around and talk to him. I slammed on my brakes, startling my companion and expressed my feeling to him. We both returned to this brother and began to talk to him. Turns out he had some exposure to christianity before and he's very open to learn more about our message. He was very grateful to talk to us and learn more about this gospel. I know that if I had not heeded the still small spirit, I would have missed that chance. It was really cool.

 

I had another experience just yesterday. We had the feeling that we needed to stay near the church and make calls to LAs and potentials and find someone to teach from that. We did so and I was sitting with a pile of potentials when I this guy came and asked me for a pen. I gave it to him and then kept calling. He returned the pen to me and I had this subtle tugging in my mind that I should keep looking up. I looked at this man that had borrowed my pen, but I didn't have too much feeling about him. I then noticed looking over his shoulder, that there was a younger man who was walking towards us. The feeling then came that he was the one that I needed to talk to. I got up and ran over to him and felt to give him an English Tract. Turns out that he was a student three years ago. I asked him to sit down and talk and he did. We then went upstairs to the church and had a lesson. I am so blessed to have God placing these people where I can teach them and just leading me along. I have no clue what to do on my own, but with the Lord, I can do all things. 

I love you all,

Elder Siebert