So birthday was super awesome. First of all, I got my Mom's package! :) With good food and cute necklaces and all these other things :) I really liked the purse post-it. Baklava, I really really liked. I'm so happy. Haven't had those for ages. How did you know?
We can't listen to Book on tapes beside four books: Our Search for Happiness, Jesus the Christ, Our Heritage, and True to the Faith. So, eeps. I sent it back today with all the clothes, so you can return it. Thanks though!
Got a card from Steph and Jason and kids. Cute.
Got a drumstick chopstick from Ems, Brookie, Olivy, and Cam. Along with the cards. So happy. Such a special gift, very thoughtful of them.
Sister Chan made breakfast for me--smiley face soup, I call it :) She took me out for lunch. We ate fried food, yep :) For dinner, we were just gonna go to a member's house. She was super nice. Apparently they had planned a surprise for me. Everyone had told me they couldn't come but they all ended up coming :) One member bought cake, most everyone made some dishes, most everyone gave presents too. They all put it in this big box with lots of papers which Sister Chan called sciptures and took out and read them :) (there was nonmembers there...such a awesome missionary for companion). Got chocolates, a big car drawing with my name on the license plate, lots of tissues, ha, so special :) Was quite surprised and happy. Another member bought a shou4 tao2 for us. haha! It was just a day full of surprises and happy. But we did do our missionary stuff too. We taught lessons during the party (off in another room) and talked to potential investigators. it was fun. Good good day.
Well, so beside my birthday. We've got some pretty exciting developments here this week.
We've been teaching two of our investigators for weeks. They've never accepted baptism before. But this week, for some reason, they just clicked. Both of them said they want to be baptized before we even invited them. Another one of our new investigators did the same thing. So now, we have a awesomely amazing number of 7 baptismal dates, all within these two months. Really wowed!
We got so much food this week that our fridge is full. Members are so awesome!
Moon, our RC, is preparing to go to the temple. Many of our other recent converts are preparing to receive their patriarchal blessings. Brother Wang is going to speak at a stake-wide fireside that will be focused on why they join the church. He is also getting a calling and everything. Just so happy for all of them. Every investigator is got their own obstacles but the are all going forward so well!
This week I was reading a thing about prophets. It's quite amazing. We've taught the same topic this week. It's so good to have living prophets. Sometimes I think we take it for granted, but really it means so much. A quote said that he wished everyone knew how important prophets are, and he wish we would listen to the prophet because he is the one who is closest to the fountain of living waters. The article also gave a lot of examples of early pioneers of how some listened and others didn't listen to the prophet. It was a sad case to read about someone with a strong testimony falling away because of some little thing like a misspelled name. But then it mentioned how others were strong because of their conversion was based on witness of the holy ghost, not because of miracles. So anyway, I don't know why I'm typing this, but that's what I learned most this week.
Aye, happy week. :)
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