Kyle got BAPTIZED!

Hey everyone,

This week was a really good one for verbatim,

You have to teach us! We also want to work out our butts.--Sister Cai on P-day (the whole story was that Sister Liao asked what I was even going to the gym to work on anymore because the people over here are really easily satisfied as far as musculature goes. I sarcastically told them that I was working on my rear-end and they then said this. Super funny and awkward. Definite culture difference. I nearly peed.)

 

Actually, I don't think that's it. Girls don't need a reason to be mad.--Elder Zeng on why Sister Wu was mad at me.

 

I dunno, we'd have a really 'weird' relationship if our communication was any better--Elder Zeng in Companioship Inventory

 

Me: Oh MAN! Today my traps are so....

Elder Zeng: Happy?

 

You may think that Elder Siebert going to the gym everyday and crushing himself with 200KG on a bar is really meaningless, but it's just like our spirituality, you have to work really hard on it and you'll have a really strong unbeatable spirit.--Kyle in his baptismal service testimony. He kept referring to this analogy and then me and how I work out tons and also said that "I just want to work up to be like Elder Siebert." Afterwards everyone came and wanted to feel my arms. Haha. Another awkward moment.

 

And one year from now, we are going to be going to the temple to have a Celestial marriage. We are excited to have a family in the gospel and the Celestial Kingdom is our goal.--Sister Liu (Marcel, Kyle's new wife) at the baptismal service. (I nearly died of happiness)

 

I never thought that Justin Beiber could get stuck in my head like this.--Me

You're going to marry a devil.--Elder Zeng on me marrying someone really pretty. He calles them "Mo2gui3"s or devils.

 

Well that Water Cow ate a quarter of the rice field. Now this story doesn't have anything to do with the topic I am speaking on, I just wanted to make you laugh.--Bishop in our combined 3rd hour class.

 

It's okay, it's not like Chen2 Yi4 Han2 is here.--Elder Zeng remarking on my helmet hair. He's referring to a Chinese movie star/model. So funny. There are a lot of Chen2 Yi4 Han2 jokes that go down. I mostly tell him that she keeps trying to court me but I just tell her that I don't have time right now.

 

Well this week had a really cool miracle happen. We were teaching one of our investigators, Sister Guo. I had a prompting earlier to look up a ton of scriptures about the resurrection because she had a lot of questions about it. She looked them all up and really like it. She asked us if it's really true as we shared with her and how she could learn that it was true for herself. It was really cool because we had been talking about how to help her to get a testimony of the BOM and get her more interested in it. She was really attentive and as we shared, the spirit was so strong. She commited to daily prayer and study. She was really committed too. We then had the feeling to extend the baptismal invitation and it was really special. I had been praying about the date and at first I had thought about the eleventh of November, but as I prayed the date, October 28th came to mind and I new that was the right date because of the feelings of the spirit. We extended the date and she accepted. It was so exciting. I was blown away by how strong the spirit was there and how God made it all happen just through a simple sheet of scriptures and notes.

 

I know that this work is truly the work of the Lord. I love you all,

Elder Siebert