Hey Everyone!
This week there are twin Stones in Danshui. My companion's name is also shi and everyone calls me the da4shi2 (big rock) even though I am shorter and the junior companion. I have a reputation for being strong in this ward. Everyone likes to feel my arms and tell me, Tai4 kua1zang1! (too ridiculous)
Food: Shan1Yao4: this is some sort of root-ish thing that when blended up makes a sort of milky sort of flavor. One of our new members, Zheng4 jm made a smoothie with this, mango, papaya and guava in it. It was probably one of the more spectacular things that I've had recently, 5 slavering smoothie slurping Sieberts out of 5.
We saw a miracle of 11 new investigators this week. My companion is a contacting monster and hopefully I will learn some of that from him. We had a lot of faith and absolute obedience this week and it really paid out the dividends.
Chuan Ren passed his interview and he is going to be baptized next week. I am so excited because he loves the church so much and wants to be a missionary himself. I can't wait.
This week saw possibly the biggest miracle I've ever seen. We have been praying so hard for a family to teach this week and lo and behold, we went to Joseph, our investigator with amnesia this friday and his wife and daughter were there. I had never been able to meet the wife before and from what Elder Benson had said, I thought that she'd be pretty cold to the church, but this was not the case. We sat and talked with Joseph and his wife for a while, just introducing and she was so nice and kind to us. The daughter sat too, but she was really shy. Then, we sang and I prayed pretty fervently for them, probably one of the more fervent prayers I have said in an investigator's home. When we ended and I looked Chen Jiemei, she was all teary eyed. She'd felt the spirit that strongly in the opening prayer alone. She described it as an incredibly happy feeling. We shared Mosiah to talk about the spirit and she actually needed a tissue. We continued to share how the gospel blesses families and how baptism can help them to be an eternal family. The spirit was so strong throughout and she was tearing up the whole time. We committed them all to being baptized and she herself said that they will come to church without us asking. When I asked them to keep doing personal prayers, she was immediately willing and said that they all will. Before we left, she picked up the book of Mormon that we'd given them to read out of and asked if she should be reading a chapter of it every day. I said yes. I have never seen the spirit work so hard on a person. She committed herself to everything. She was literally asking us if she could make the steps to conversion. It was the biggest miracle ever. Everyone, I know that the Lord hears prayers, he answered ours. He can answer yours. Pray and then go out there and work like crazy to do your part and our loving Heavenly Father will make sure you realize miracles!
I love you all!
Love,
Elder Siebert
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