Hello. This week has been great, and also writing my journal on my iPod with my bluetooth keyboard is almost as good. I now have a way of writing detailed, long journal entries with pictures and video and it only takes 20 min/day to write in. So easy, so great. I won't be sharing all of my entries but i'll definitely attach some for you all to read and watch.
So Helena... first of all. Is doing really well, so trusts us so much now. It amazing to see her progress. I invited her last lesson to be baptized on July 13th. She said "No, I am not ready yet" but I told her that I know she will be ready on that day and will be baptized on that day, she just doesn't know it yet.
On Saturday my companion needed to write a talk in Chinese and so did I, I finished mine in about an hour, and his took a lot longer than that. Helena came with us to the Library to help us if we had any grammatical mistakes etc, and so I finished mine, and just talked with Helena got to know her better, she really is starting to trust us.
On Sunday, we asked her if she would come to our talks, but Saturday night she said she had to talk to us about her mom, that she was upset. So we talked to her, and she brought up issues about her mom (her mom is picky on the facts) with facts of the church and how being a part of a church and joining and being baptized in a church is a lot different. So we helped her resolve her concern, helped he understand facts about the church that her mom wanted to know, the most important thing was this though, she said "I need to know if this is true for sure so I can tell my mother that" so we charged her to do so, to find out for sure that it was true. This is what we have been praying for is something like this to come up.
Other investigators that are doing well, Howard is doing pretty good, he said he won't read the book right now because his grandma said we don't believe in the trinity. So to bounce back we invited him to come up to the Oakland temple with us. So this Saturday we're going.
Allan we didn't have a chance to meet with this week, everytime we went over it was a bad time.
So pretty cool experience, we felt prompted to go and see this former investigator named Kevin we figured he is 17 or 18 now, since this record from was 3 years ago, and we went and visited him at 8:30 on Friday night, and we sat down and got to know him and said he was Atheist. We then taught him what we call the 'bigfoot' lesson, which is a lesson on faith and growing your faith. He accepted to keep the lessons going and now we'll teach him once a week!
We are doing a lot better on numbers, this week there is a challenge by the ZL's (The are serving in Los Gatos Ward, which is the richest area in the South Bay) and one of the members has offered a ride in their Aston Martin (fancy car) for whoever has the most contacts this week. So we'll be seeing about that ;)
That was a week, I gave my first full Chinese talk this week which was great!
and I went to a Chinese bakery that asked me where i'm from in China and I said in chinese "I'm american" and she said in Chinese back "Oh oh you are an ABC then" (ABC means American Born Chinese)
On that note! Have a great week!
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