Monday, May 2, 2011

Weekly Report: I am soaked all the time. Is it the baptismal waters or the sweat that's causing it?

Hey everyone!
This week, summer struck Taiwan. Hello super humid, hot days. Hello to sweating twenty four seven, especially when biking up and down all the hills in Danshui. It's pretty nasty how sweaty I am all the time. I hope that i adjust to it soon, because it is killing me right now.

We had another baptism this week! Well, actually two. The first was Godric or Chen2 Ding1Jie2 and the other one was a little 12 girl, Chen2 Jie2Yi2. They are actually not related to one another, anyone who wants to know, just ask my mom how many chen's there are in Taiwan. There are tons. Anyway, the baptisms went well. Elder Benson did both of them and they both needed two goes a piece. I joked with him afterwards that it was because he actually wanted to have four baptisms that day. It was a really great day.

As far as food goes, I am not sure that I ate anything knew this week. It was all pretty normal and boring.
This week we were a little hard pressed to find people. We spent a good chunk of our time going out and finding but the results aren't around to back up our efforts. Basically, we have a bunch of people set up for this week though, so with luck that means that we'll be having a lot of new investigators this week.
I did see one really big miracle this week. We were tracting in this area where we had planned to be and had also planned to find someone in the area. That was the goal. We prayed about it and then I knocked on doors while my companion made calls. After a bunch of nothing, we were about to go home for the night when this guy and his girlfriend walked out of this house and made for their scooter. I walked over and started talking to them. The guy, Gary, was interested but had no time. I got his number and gave him some basic information on the gospel and the church. Later throughout the week, I kept calling him, trying to set up a meeting time. Basically I never got a hold of him. I called on Saturday and prayed mid-ring that i Could reach him. He picked up when I said amen. I asked him to come to church and he agreed. I was afraid when he hadn't showed at 8:58 the next morning, so I called again and turns out he was just waiting outside the gate. When he came in, he was very intent and was raptured by the scriptures I gave him to read about the sacrament and such. He doesn't have a lot of time to meet because he's really busy, but after sharing some more with him, he's willing to come early next week so we can meet with him. That's one thing that i have been doing this week, asking like they are already going to do something. For instance, I asked him if he could just come earlier next week when he comes to church. I think that it's been pretty awesome. I feel like there are blessings in not being afraid to be bold. He said he would come early. Anyway, the point I was making is that when we tell God what our goals are, he will make them happen. It might not be when we think that it should happen; for instance, I wanted the new investigator the night I talked to him first, but it came at the end of the week instead. It's awesome. Miracles happen. God's real and He listens. Trust and love him and you'll see great things as well.

I love you all so much! Everyone give my mom a big huge hug for Mother's Day! She's the best mother in the whole wide world!
Elder Siebert

1 comment:

  1. Little Matty is growing up soo fast! Great letter.

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