Hey everyone,
This week I was a little slacking on the verbatim.
"Oh, you might want to pick up your bag, the dog just peed."--Brother Hou on his dog peeing on Elder Ks bag. ELder K was not pleased.
(In english) "No, not here"--Brother Zhang on me trying to give him a hug in the starbucks. He'll give me one in the church, but he's too gansta to give me one in public.
"No, no, no, it's like this."--Brother Zhang teaching me a complicated hand shake man hug thing. I'mma stick to the normal hug, my mind kinda exploded.
"YOU'VE BEEN PLAYING FOOTBALL AND YOU HAVEN'T INVITED US?"--Sister Liao, one of our district's sisters on finding out we've been playing ball.
"Hey Elder Siebert, did you play Age of Empires? Because you say shi4 like the Chinese troops in that game."--Sister Muhlstein. She called me nerdy for it, but I wouldn't have picked up on that, so I leave it to you to figure the real nerd out.
Food:
Rose vinegar honey tea: This was given to us by an investigator. It's very aromatic and sweet at the same time, but not overly so. I don't know if it was because I was really hot and it was really cold and refreshing but this drink is one of my favorites. I will have to get the stuff to make it and then mix up some awesomeness at home. I give it 5 honeyed horticultures out of 5. (that was a real stretch).
I have noticed that it's been a little hard for me to focus these last couple days after getting the move call. I had a great experience though where I was having a really hard time and we pulled out our hymnals and sang a couple songs because I had a prompting that would help. A feeling of the spirit just came over my heart and I said a very sincere prayer and that night was one of the best nights in a long time. It wasn't that we say an above average amount of miracles, but I was able to focus and I was able to be happy with the work.
We had a great miracle with someone that we were teaching this week. We have been teaching Brother Zhang who is someone that I found on the street my first week training Elder K. I have really seen him grow a lot and start to cast off the shell that he puts up. Deep down he's just a really sweet guy who wants to be happier in life but just hasn't really known how to do it yet. This week we shared about prayer some more to help him get over his smoking habit and the feeling came to share about Alma 37:36-37. It was a really great scripture and I joked around about counseling with the Lord and how most of the time we don't. I made a fun analogy with a member that was with us and we were all laughing but then I brought it back in and the spirit told me just what to say and Brother Zhang was smiling and just touched by the spirit. His prayers have been better ever since and I have just seen him continue to progress so much. I know that God is directing this work because I am not strong enough to do it by myself. I am so grateful for him and for the miracles that he's let me see here in Xindian and I hope that I can be a worthy and good enough tool to keep helping when I move to Songshan today.
Over and out with all my love,
Elder Siebert
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