This week we have several items of business, first is....
Food!
Oyster Noodle Soup: I haven't had this in forever and it is one of my favorites in the whole world. I finally found a place to get it here and I had a big bowl of steaming oyster noodles. It had slightly less appetizing large intestine in it, but now I guess I know what it would feel like if I had to resort to cannabalism. The intestine's just sort of got a greasy feel to it. Aftertaste isn't too terribly hot. Mostly I think it's the idea of what you're eating. I give it 4 out of 5 oyster "oh man what is that"s.
Second: With Thanksgiving being on Thursday and no one inviting us to dinner or having any set plans for that, we piled out meal times together for the day and went and ate at a buffet and THANKSED THE GIVING! We ate til we were stuffed to the max and then some more. It was a great way to celebrate Thanksgiving, even though there wasn't any semblence of turkey, stuffing or pie. We did okay though. I just liked saying we Thanks the Giving for the rest of the day. I will attach pictures of my stomach distended to the maximum.
Thirdly: I love you all and am even more grateful for those who send me mail....
Fourthly: The mission is amazing!
Fifthly: I finally made it up to the jungle gym where the old men were put to awe and a lot of complaining about my still semi-lingering strength. I am serious, they were all complaining about how I was going to break a bar or something and I was like, no way, it's fine. It was really fun and now looking at it, I am missing lifting a lot. Haha. It's all good. I'm getting strength that I can't get any other way right now!
Sixthly: This week we saw a most singularly amazing miracle. We were contacting down a little street when my companion stopped and talked to someone for a little while. I was standing next to a stack of houses and the feeling came that I should just ring all the doorbells. I reached out and did so. Within just a few moments the door was buzzed open. I was shocked. I knew then that there was indeed someone that Heavenly Father wanted me to talk to and teach in there. My companion and I went up the stairs, knocking each door as it came until we came to the fourth floor where we met Zhang dx. For the first few seconds I thought that he was going to close the door on us when he suddenly told us to come in. We sat down. We started talking. we prayed. As we listened, the spirit gave me exactly what to say to him. We shared scriptures. He seemed to start to feel the spirit. When we shared at the end of the lesson how to pray, he said he'd try later. I expressed that I would like to be there for his first time so that we could share the experience with him and help him out. He consented and knelt on the ground. We prayed with him and whereas before the prayer, he'd been unwilling to really try and set up, we got up and asked how he felt and he said, "I'd like to keep listening and trying". It was an amazing miracle where the Lord really gave us everything we needed to do and to say. It really proved once again to me that Heavenly Father is indeed watching and directing this work.
Well that's it for the week. Stay strong everyone and remember why we have Christmas in this season!
Love,
Elder Siebert
Me up looking over the city.
The intestine!
We THANKS THE GIVING!
The view from the jungle gym
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