So this week was great!
Wu Tao is being baptized! September 28th!
We taught Wu Tao on Tuesday night:
"After a while of that we still had chances to get to know him a lot better. He asked us to teach him more about one of the pamphlets that we had given him and Elder Anderson did, he taught more about the plan of salvation and how important it is, and how much of a blessing it is for us to have it in our lives to know we can live with our families forever. He enjoyed that lesson, after that he asked me to pray for him and his petition for his visa, since he has to get it extended in order to stay in the U.S. and he is working with a lawyer to make sure it goes through, but he is really nervous that he might not be able to stay here in the United States. So I prayed for him, and he really was emotional afterwards, Elder Anderson said "Hey you know Wu Tao you can pray for your self too, when you have that chance you can ask for blessings..." and after that Wu Tao got super emotional and said "I want to cry..." and then he did... was shaking and bawling, just looking off into infinity looking at the wall and crying... I tried to hug him but he was really in a sort of emotional state. Anyway he started to pray while crying "Heavenly Father, Please let me to get my petition finished so that I can stay in the U.S. with my family. I love my family. Please let me stay here. Thank you for these two guys elder anderson and elder sanchez Help me. name of Jesus.. amen"
He calmed down after that, and was still pretty emotional. But he was super grateful for us, and I am grateful for him. It was very spiritual experience for us all. An act of faith will always be responded with a blessing, and this was definitely an act of faith for him..
And then on Saturday afternoon:
We went to the temple, and had a great great time. I'll copy and paste some exerpts from it.
"Anyway the visit with Wu Tao to the temple was so good, he enjoyed the Christus, and then the God's Plan family presentation, he said it was very correct. Then we had a teaching room with him, taught him the beginning of the restoration, and then watched the restoration video, he had a lot of questions about everything we taught, one in particular he said it was very hard for him to believe that Joseph Smith saw what he saw, and then we bore testimony and elder Anderson kind of just linked it to the Book of Mormon, and how the Book of Mormon was translated by Joseph by the power of God and Wu Tao believes it to be a true book, and so that links Joseph Smith right in. When Elder Anderson told that he was like "Oh... OH... you are right, that is right yes it makes sense" so it was just awesome. It was a great visit, we went and walked around a little bit with the Sisters."
I also have a testimony that Sisters are better missionaries than Elders. Just throwing that one out there.
On Sunday:
"We got a referral this past weekend from Elder Bird of a chinese guy and his young daughter that wanted to learn a little more, anyway so we called Elder Lewenilovo the zone leader down there (and best missionary ever) to see if we could get a dinner down there, and he said "You asked the right guy!, of course you can have dinner with us!" and so we had the funniest dinner I have ever had, at a Tongan home. It was the Sefa family, Sister Sefa prepared a big delicious meal for us, ribs, New Zealand style sausage, rice, and salad (pfft, who needs salad?) and so we ate, and laughed and ate and laughed, and it was just the best time even being with Elders Lovo, Fakava and Harper. It seriously was so fun. We just enjoyed it so much. Sister Sefa made the best Otai (this tongan drink made out of fruit juice, coconut, mango, and other fruits) and a huge platter of cake and icecream for all of us. It was just so much I was so full after this meal, but that happens in every tongan dinner I think. Elder Fakava shared the message in Tongan, and I didn't understand anything what was said, but I felt the spirit, I think he told of a story before his mission with his father, or something to this extent, and he started crying a lot. It was really powerful. We left with happy faces, full bellies and the energy to rule to world. Thank you so much Sister Sefa!
After Sister Sefa, we had our referral to visit. His name was Qian xiansheng. 錢先生，和他的女兒。His daughters name was Helena. Weird, eh? Anyway we didn't feel prompted to teach him any specific lesson or anything, but we taught him on the Book of Mormon and how we can develop faith in Heavenly Father. He was sorta interested, and the daughter maybe about the same interest level. He walked us out to our car, and said he would like to set another time with us in the near future. It was a decent referral."
So this weeks email was from my journal entries from the past week, a lot easier to write!
Love you all!
Elder Sanchez
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