Two years is up!

Hey everyone!

Verbatim:

Being evil is really parching!--Sister Muhlstein as we played "Aye! Dark Overlord"

 

Me: Yeah, I'm an old man now.
Sister Taylor: That's hot.

Me: *giggle*

 

Elder Phelps (reporting in zone meeting): He'll be getting sealed in the temple in a year.
Elder Lew: Sounds like Elder Siebert!

 

Whoa! The planes just get closer and closer!--Me when the announcements, folded into a paper airplane, nearly hit me in the back of the head in zone meeting.

 

(written on the calender)

12/31 "My favorite companion kisses another girl at midnight and gets engaged"

Me: Yeah, that'll go well 'I've got a resolution. I'm gonna get married! And it's you!'

Elder Welch: I gotta pee. That's what she's gonna say too.

 

Me: Don't get it mixed up with Fang4Bian4.

Elder Welch: What's Bian4?

Me: Poop.

Elder Welch (and me): *Laughs super loud*

 

Let's go blow up his company. Or at least block the door.--Elder Welch on getting Brother Cheng to church.

 

This week was a good way to end my last Sunday here on the island. We had an amazing baptism. Brother Zhang's baptism went without a hitch really. His good friends in the ward, Brother Tu and President Zeng gave amazingly spiritual talks and the musical number went smooth and beautifully. The most beautiful part was that his whole family came and sat with him. They were given the front spot next to the font and were able to watch their husband/father get baptized. Even more beautiful was the fact that the Zeng family went over after the service and also the Huang family went and talked to them and the wife was much more open after interacting with them. We are planning to visit them with the Zeng family and meet them more and also share a little message. I have a lot of hope for their family. I am so eternally grateful to Heavenly Father for letting me see this miracle happen and let me be here for the realization of it.

This week we had a really cool finding miracle. We set up a referral at a member's house for a first time meeting. When we got there, we brought the investigator, a Brother Chen, in and he met the Que family and they just wrapped their arms around him (figuratively, although I am sure that literally would also have gone well). Our lesson with him went really, really well. We followed the spirit really bravely and taught with power. As we taught, he really opened up to the message and even though he didn't understand everything perfectly, he clearly felt the spirit. He came to church this week and because Brother Que is a counsellor in the bishopric, his wife and Elder Welch sat with Brother Chen. Brother Chen loved the talks and was writing notes down. Then in sunday school, Sister Que took him upstairs and then arranged for someone to sit with him while she took care of some things and then came back to sit with him again. It was amazing how well they took care of him. I am sure that he felt the love and will be very willing to come back.

Well that's all from me! Over and out, thanks for reading all these weeks!

Elder Siebert

Getting close...to another baptism!

Hey everyone!

This is the second to last email that you will get from me. Just thought that I would throw that one out there.

 

Food:

Orange chocolate cake: I was sitting in Priesthood and the idea came to mind that I had to make a cake with candied orange zest syrup drizzled into it. I had made the cake and it was going to be taken over to a member's for dinner so I went home and made the concotion and it was so good! I put super dark hot fudge on it so that it would mellow out the sweetness and it was to die for. 5 orangey....things....out of 5.

 

Verbatim:

Elder Welch: Does he drive a scooter?

Me:Yeah....?

Elder Welch: Well let's brake his scooter....or put a shark on his scooter.

--As we talked about how to help Brother Zhang stay for all of church.

 

We'll use his hormones against him!--Elder Welch on how we could get the young women to get Roy to church.

 

Everyone could use friends of the opposite gender.--Elder Welch

 

President said to stay away from any form of pornography. So he showed us a video... (we all burst out laughing)...No! On the impact it had one someone!--Elder Zou at ZL council

 

Me: Ouch! I got a mosquito bite on my neck! Come on!

Elder Welch: Must've been a girl mosquito then

 

This week I also saw someone change their kid's diaper in the middle of sacrament meeting. yeah. That was uncomfortable.

 

Well as for miracles this week we got a really cool referral from a member. We had an appointment fall through, someone was going to go to the member's place to have a lesson with us, but since they weren't coming, we shared with the family and had a little FHE. They felt the spirit so strongly. The mom was especially moved by the message and how we have the gospel right now. The feeling came into my heart that I really needed to ask for referrals even though we have before. I asked and they talked really quick about their family members and gave me their little brother to see. They called him right then and he accepted the invitation to meet with us. We then met with him and he's really open to the message and really hopes that it can help his family. It was such a cool miracle to see how God prepared him. It was good news!

 

Other business is that Brother Zhang should be getting baptized this Sunday. It's gonna be great.

 

I love you all,

Elder Siebert