Turning Around

Hey everyone!
This week has our temple day, so I am sorry to have this email get out so late to you. We had a good, hot week. We worked hard and we saw miracles from it, but they're going to have to wait until after.....

The Food Review: So I broke down this week and made some black nanny. It's actually not bad. It's something along the lines of a vanilla coke, but a little better in the creaminess of the drink. Like a vanilla coke cream soda. Well, we have a member family who are from Brazil and I go and teach them Chinese every week. They always invite us to eat with them and try and get us to take whole pizzas home and such. Well this week, they didn't push a pizza on us, but they did treat us to the Brazillian drink Guarrana. To all those who know this drink, you know it's good. So I took my can home and used a portion to make....

"Opair Nanny"! It was actually really quite good. It's a little more exotic than your run-of-the-mill "black nannies" but like the Opairs that it is named after, must return to it's homeland after a year or two. Haha, just kidding! I give it 4 out of 5....whatevers.

This week when we were on exchange with my district leader Elder Bogel, we ended up not having keys to the church so we had to borrow Sister Wynder's. Since we had some free dinner time, we made a little scavenger hunt for her to find them after we used them because we had to hide them for her anyway. So fun.

Just yesterday I saw a great miracle. In the morning, I contacted this amazing man before a lesson. I invited him to baptism on the street without much ado and he accepted. He said that he would come by later in the day. Well, our DM went overtime and I wasn't able to see him right after. However, we were headed out of the chapel a little later and I saw him rounding the corner, walking away. We went and flagged him down and asked him to come to the church, which he did. He was willing to set a baptismal date and another time to meet. Unfortunately, he doesn't live in our area. However, the miracle doesn't stop there! We went to see a less active, which was what we were going to do before we met with the other man, Brother Hong. When we went to meet Brother Chen, it just so happened that he pulled up right as we did. The Lord set it all up so that we could teach everyone we needed to and did it in a way that I could not mistake that it was by His Almighty Hand. I am so grateful of that.

I love you all!
Elder Siebert