Hey everyone,
It has been really hot here as long as it isn't raining, and then it's still really hot. The sad thing is that I think I am the same level of soaked no matter whether it rains or doesn't. Pretty nasty I know. My brother has it worse in the fiery depths of Tainan.
It turns out that I am gathering infamy in the Taichung mission right now. Mark keeps telling me things about a Sister Tan that I was friends with in the MTC and how she wants me to write to her. The problem is that I cannot write to her on order from President. I asked, but the answer was no. It turns out in the song that got written for Mark, there is a line in it about how " [he] doesn't need no sister Tan writing him". I think that it's funny that I can be such a big deal in a mission I have never set foot in. I'll keep you posted on further rants.
I had a really great week. We had some amazing chances to get new investigators and I think that at the current point in time, I have found more new investigators in the last transfer than in the rest of my mission put together. We have been that blessed by the Lord. Seriously. He keeps putting these golden people in our paths. Some turn out to be a little less golden later, but I know that it's because of the trust we put in God and how much we pray. I recently started to really get down on my prayers and have really been begging the Lord for His help and direction and I have a firm testimony that that is why I have been seeing so much success.
We instituted Guitar Sundays last night. My companion always loves when I play him songs at night and so when I told him that we could play them on Sunday Night for sure he was elated. It was so funny, he was like, so, can we institute a Guitar Sunday? And I told him sure and he was so excited for it. We played some great music and just sang and did all that. I also discovered the best way to wake myself up in the mornings is to make up crazy songs for my companion. Seriously. I sing to him just about every morning. It's always awful singing that doesn't match the key or tuning of the guitar and it's always really awkward. I make it that way on purpose. It's really funny and we always laugh a ton and then I go and take a shower because it's always after we go exercise.
I also had these two little sauce packets left over from when we went and got potstickers once and I always scream and toss one at my companion at least twice during studies. It's so funny because he jumps everytime and recently he's been doing it back. It's a fun little game we play.
We are finally making some real progress with the Wang Family. The spirit makes me put away Mr. Nice Guy and makes me into Mr. Boldsauce when we go visit them lately. I tell them that they need to start actually praying about the BOM and praying for God to help them get over smoking rather than just trying to kick it themselves. It's been really amazing because the spirit has really been working through me and working them over really good. I love it and it just feels so powerful a lot of the time. I don't ever want to lose that.
I killed a massive banana spider this week. If you can see in the picture, it is clearly just about six inches in leg spread. Very scary. Don't worry though, that's in the church, not my house. So far as I know, we are safe at home.
This week Eric finally got baptized. After almost five months of meeting with him, he finally was ready to be baptized and all is well. We are still waiting for confirmation next week but we are so stoked for the man to be baptized. I love him to death. This week we saw a miracle with him and we prayed so hard and finally saw him filled with the Holy Ghost and stopped worrying about the baptism. It is so wonderful to see the change that this gospel can create in those who are humble enough to allow it. The Atonement is real, it has the power to help us overcome anything in this life.
Love,
Elder Siebert
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