August 15, 2016
Family,
The New Territories continues to be flooded with the Book of Mormon! It is very exciting. We continue to run into everybody that wants one or will take one. A lot of books off to the Mainland. and some in Hong Kong too. Our district has improved its numbers to 132 books this week. I don't know when it is going to start to plateau, but not yet. It's amazing!
Zheng DX is doing good. came to church again. He hopefully will have a BD this week. He is a stud. Has some good friends in the ward.
Li JM is really busy. Zhou JM is slowly coming along.
Met this cool new guy on the street last week from the Book of Mormon challenge who came to church yesterday. He is named Hong. We are meeting with him tomorrow.
Wang Le is doing good. He got the priesthood on Sunday and a calling as a ward missionary.
Right now I am thinking of a plan and goal to better flood my life with the Book of Mormon. Probably will finalize that this week.
It is kind of mayhem with 2 summer missionaries and 6 people in this 4 man apartment.
One funny thing that happened a few weeks ago that I was reminded of this week. I was calling a member to see if he could help us teach a lesson that coming week and he didn't answer, so it went to his voice-mail. I left a message and said something like, 'Hey Brother Lin. How are ya? I was just calling to see if you could help us teach Zheng DX this coming friday at 8 o'clock. Thanks so much. When you get this, please give me a call. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen' and then hung up. My companion burst up laughing and I didn't know why for a min or two tell he explained that I ended the voice-mail in the name of Jesus Christ. Oh well.
Elder Huang B-day was this week. It was pretty fun. We made steak and mashed potatoes for dinner. Elder Ashton and Elder Rostedt made him this rice desert thing. Also at night, we surprised him. He went to go shower and we ran around getting out the mango cake we bought and lighting candles and putting up those glow in the dark balloons and the present we got him wrapped in chinese newspaper with a little note and setting everything up so when he walked out of the shower 5 min later the lights were off, the room was lit up by the candles on the cake and the balloons and we all burst out in singing Happy Birthday. It was fun. Hope he had a good day. I think he did.
One cool tender mercy I'll share. On Saturday afternoon we had a few hours that we were planning on spending doing calls and contacting on the street. As I was thinking of anyone we could visit, somebody from a long time popped into my mind. It was this lady from Taiwan that lives in a small Tsuen south of Yuen Long. Elder Darrington and I had knocked on her door back in the winter and she had no interest. She was a catholic. Anyway, we decided we'd go and try to visit her. We knocked on her door and her husband answered the door. He was nice. He explained that he, unlike his wife, doesn't have a religion and he wasn't interested. He didn't really want us there. For whatever reason I said something like, 'Are you sure we can't share a quick message with you?' He says, 'ya, bye bye.' I said (maybe too boldly and acting surprised that he had declined my first invitation) 'really?' He says, 'well, ok, come in. I got a few minutes.' So we sat down and about 25 min later we were headed out the door having taught him the Restoration of the Gospel, giving him a Book of Mormon, him committing to read it, and him happy to have us back the following Saturday. This was a miracle in the fact that he is only home on Saturday afternoons because he works in mainland all week and we happened to show up a half an hour before he headed out.
Have a great week!
Elder Josh Stratford
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