Hey everyone!
Exciting news for the first time in a while, BAPTISM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Brother Wang got baptized this week! We found him and then four weeks later (a mission record I am sure because it's the absolute minimum amount of time required to be baptized in my mission) he was entering the waters of baptism to be baptismed by proper priesthood authority and confirmed the next day. It was so exciting through the whole thing to see him so ready for the gospel and so accepting of everything we taught to him. The day that we met him, he was just waiting for his bus and then we talked to him and told him about the BOM. Apparently this is what he had wanted for years and years. He had been studying the bible four times a year and just feeling like there was more and as he puts it, "Then they (gesturing to us) found me and brought me here and I knew what I was missing, what I had wanted all along." It's such a miracle and a manifestation of the prophetic words in Amos that many would thirst and hunger for the word or God, but be unable to find it....until it was restored that is. It is a blessing to me that I got to see that and that Elder Cranney could see that before he left, it being his first baptism on the mission.
Other news is that I am training an Elder Kaluhiokalani! Elder Kaluhiokalani is a huge Hawaiian Elder and he's great! He's got so much fire to do the work and he's got a really fun quirky personality that I think is going to be awesome. He's the first companion that I have had that is bigger than me. It's strange because I am used to people telling me how buff I am, but now that he's about 1.75 times heavier than me, I think that the tables will turn.
Food:
Chicken Goop: This is similar to the chicken goop that we made at home in the crockpot but a little different. Since my mommy sent me the ranch dressing mix, I made some gravy with that, shredded chicken, added some other seasonings and veggies and served it over Penne Rigatte pasta. So delicious. It was a good thing to come home from church to. 5 unappetizingly named chicken concoctions out of 5.
Verbatim:
Elder Cranney: What's a random object?
Me: (list off a couple and then...) Coffin
Elder Cranney: I was thinking a little more sunshine mellow
Me: A coffin in the sun?--regarding a something that Elder Cranney was writing in a letter going home. I have no clue what it was about.
I don't think that you can imagine how food controlled my mind right then.--Elder Cranney
Look at him (me), his skin is so black! He works really hard! Your skin is too white, that means you're not working! Work harder and Chinese people will like you more.--Brother Zhong regarding my companion's skin.
I'm like a 72 hour kit, I store things up!--Elder Kaluhiokalani on eating an entire pan of lasagna at the trainers/trainees orientation meeting
Regarding the door being left open at the mission home:
President Grimley: Okay, who was born in a barn and left the door open?! Elder Visser, was that you?
Me: He's from Arkansas, everyone's born in a barn there
Elder Visser: Groans while laughing
It's the leaning tower of Qi1Zi3 (means wife in chinese)--Elder Kaluhiokalani while memorizing chinese words from Phase 1
Did she just shake the baby to get the crumbs off of him?--Elder Kaluhiokalani about the Sister who shook her toddler to get the copious amounts of crumbs off of him.
Well I think that's all that time permits today. I switched the order and the miracle is at the top today.
Love,
Elder Siebert
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