September 29, 2015
Family,Sorry I forgot to tell you that my P-day would be Tuesday instead of Monday. This is because of my U-turn is today, so they made it my temple day and p-day instead of monday.
Mom - I have not been able to see a primary program. We will watch General Conference the weekend after it happens. Language is fine. I am starting to understand a little better what people are saying.
Dad - ping pong was fun last p-day. I for sure sent my information to Regents Scholarship. I remember going into the Administration Building to get my Transcript and then going up to mail off the letter with the information in it. I don't know what else I can tell you. I remember mailing it in. That's pretty weird. We were just the missionaries in charge of teaching and baptizing her. My language is not good enough to be able to confirm her so I did the baptism. It was fine saying the prayer in Mandarin. Pretty short to learn. I have to leave in 10 days. My comp doesn't. He has no restrictions. It's just because I am an American.
We have been teaching a new investigator the last week and a half. He is amazing. His name is Wang DX. I found him through calling through former investigators. He has been taught by a lot of missionaries in the past. During our first meeting with him, I had an interesting prompting. I felt prompted to tell him that the Lord needs him on His side. I have never said anything like this before, but I felt like I should share it. He was kind of surprised and asked me if that was really true. I affirmed to him that it was. He has been amazing these last week and a half we have known him. He is praying everyday and reading from the scriptures everyday. When I called to follow-up, he told me that he got a special feeling when reading in 1 Nephi 3 and how he especially liked v7. Amazing. He came to church 2 weeks ago and has a lot of good questions. He seems to be interested, has a desire to learn, and is very sincere. He wasn't able to come to church this last week though.
Liu DX is such a stud too. He actually called us Sunday morning and told us that he would like to come to church that morning. We met him at the Bus stop and attending the 9 am meeting with him. He got home from work at 4. Slept for 3 hrs. Got up and called us to see if he could come to church. Amazing. We introduced him to some members and the branch president and seems to be getting along good with them and making friendships. He went to work straight from the church meeting. We haven't been able to meet with him in a while though, because of his crazy work schedule.
We had a lot of lessons planned where investigators didn't show up. We had 5 in a row on Saturday, 1 on Sunday and 1 on Monday. and some others beginning of last week. It was a bummer.
This week things got shifted around a lot. Elder Griffiths got moved out of Macau so his companion, Elder Feng, is now our companion. We are a 3 some now. Also this week we were told that we are now going to be doing English work and attending Macau 2nd branch, which is the English/Tagolog branch. So it's pretty unique. Elder Feng is a cantonese missionary. So we are really busy. We get to now do all of his work with his investigators as well as ours, not including now being a part of the Filipino ward. We will now be attending 2 sacrament meetings every Sunday. Our normal cantonese branch at 1 and then the english branch at 5. We got to go to sacrament meeting 4 times last week though. That is because we went to the 9 am meeting because of Liu XS on Sunday as well as the other 2 and we also went to the sacrament meeting on Saturday, because my comp got asked to give a talk. They hold a sacrament meeting for the 2nd brach on Saturday night as well as Sunday night, because some of the Filipinos can't get off work on Sunday. We normally won't attend Saturday though.
Filipinos are opposite Chinese people. Chinese people are quiet and keep to themselves. Filipinos call you over and won't stop talking to you. They invited us to a birthday party right after sacrament meeting sunday, that they do every month for the birthdays in the ward. We went and got to know a lot of the members. It was good. They eat a lot of food. I was just standing there talking to somebody and they just kept dumping food on my plate. I wasn't complaining though. I'm a little bumbed I won't be able to continue to work with them. I am out in 10 days.
A funny thing is that nobody knows how to handshake. They never really do it. We go to give them handshakes and they just hold our their hand like a dead fish for us to handshake. It's pretty funny. All the school kids wear uniforms that are all white. White pants and white button down shirt for the guys and a white dress with a tiny colored tie for the girls.
Quick thoughts. Nevermind. No time. Sorry. I'll try to sneak them in next time. Thank you for your prayers. I know that as we feast on the words of christ, we can have the spirit more in our lives and know how we can best improve to be a better disciple of Christ.
Elder Stratford
dragon fruit. Delicious
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