12/13/15
Family,
Mom - Thanks for updating me about what is happening at home. I love to hear about it.
- We can do skype anytime on the 24th 25th or 26th, whatever works best. The white handbook says 30-40 min and nobody has said otherwise. They quoted that in zone training, so that is how long it will be.
- I got all 3 packages. Got 2 this week. and the other one last week. Thank you.
- Investigators are good. Still not able to meet with a lot of them.
- weather is great. been perfect weather this week, and a little more wet.
- Mandarin is ok. Slowly coming.
- pass-offs aren't bad. I passed of #7 this week, it was the Word of Wisdom. We sit down with the Zone Leader and he tells us certain conditions for the pass off and about the investigator I will be teaching. For example, this pass off he told me that I was to use power statements and talk as little as possible and that the person he was being was a heavy drinker. He tells you that info and then says you have 10-15 min. Go.
- i would set up a skype account and figure that out soon. I don't know where in the world to do this or how to do this, so I will try to figure it out. If worse come to worse I will just buy a calling card and call you on the phone. I'll let you know next week.
- i tried hard to make the letter legible.
Dad - thanks for sharing what you shared with the ward. I love to hear about it and your testimony. That's a bummer about Elder Slatter, I'll keep him in my prayers. Let me know about the wedding and the game. Sounds like an exciting weekend.
Before I forget, Tang Yang got baptized! Happened about a month ago, I just keep forgetting to tell you. Elder Woolley emailed me and let me know. They got him to come to church. I was stoked to hear about that. He is an amazing man.
Haven't been about to meet with Chen, Lydia, Qiu, Jason, Sam, or A-zheng (she is in mainland for a while). We dropped Sem Family. We contact her and she never has time to meet with us. It has been about a month and a half. We encouraged her to read the Book of Mormon.
We did have an amazing lesson with Zheng this week. We had spend a lot of time preparing for this lesson and thinking about how we could best help Zheng this week. We shared a mormon message with him and talked about hapiness and addressed some of his questions from previous lessons. The spirit was so strong as he shared his thoughts about the movie and the gospel. I learned from this experience the importance of preperation. The Lord was willing to help and and answer our prayers when we were willing to show to Him how important this was to us through our prayers, study and pondering about him. The more we prepare ourselves spiritually to teach, the better able our investigators and those we teach will be able to learn by the spirit. The spirit will be able to bear witness of the truthfulness of our words when we are saying what the spirit would have us say.
Also, I have got an increased testimony of the importance of including the Lord in finding activities. This week we made a goal to make specific times and places we would street contact and then include the Lord as we did this. We had great success and were able to talk to a lot of prepared people. Mostly all cantonese speaking. Hopefully they become progessing investigators.
Thank you for your prayers and examples.
Elder Stratford
Zheng. Our investigator. Stud.
Elder Winwood with a huge apple.
Investigator in TSW ward who is helping us teach a family from Nepal since he speaks nepali. He is 15 and would get baptized, but has to wait till he is 18 because his parents don't want him to.
Pic in Kowloon
english class
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