>.< This week has been so crazy I can't even believe it. This week we have seen great successes and great losses with our investigators. We got two new investigators Simon Lu and Alice Liu. We lost Wu Tao though.
Let me tell you a little bit more about that. We met with Wu Tao on Thursday night, right when we were walking up to his house we got a text from him saying he was still working. We went up and knocked on his door anyway and he was there, he let us in pretty excitedly and said sit sit. We sat down and I had this overwhelming feeling of guilt in the air, not my guilt, but his, just a heaviness of doubt and maybe some deception a little bit. I felt like he had not been 100% honest with us for the first time right then. We talked and talked about how he can bring this up with his wife. We showed him mormon.org to help him to explain things and talked about Polygamy and temple building with him to help clear up those two issues. It still seemed pretty im not sure the word... useless at that point. I left feeling kind of frustrated, so I called President Law, and asked if he could call him, so he did, and it went well. So yeah.
So the next day we wanted to visit Wu Tao, and it was pretty bad. We called and I answered like "Hey Wu Tao, we miss you!Can we visit tonight to say bye bye before you leave for Michigan?" and he responded with "欸，長老，對不起。。。不用來，我將來不會來教會，我的家人他們都不能同意我接受洗禮，所以sorry，bye-bye elder"
(basically, the translation is... elder, sorry, I will not ever come to church again, my family just is not able to accept me in this church, sorry bye bye)
Right then he dropped us pretty hard. Anyway that was pretty difficult for us.
Alice Liu was a cool experience, Elder Bingham and Elder Fisher while on exchanges contacted into her at DeAnza and agreed to meet with us, so Thursday we met with her, and sshe was super cool, and she loved the lesson, new investigator that is honestly so prepared.
Helena watched both sessions of conference with us on Saturday. It was really good, I think she enjoyed the Sunday morning session a lot. It had to do a lot of faith. She is keeping on, she will be baptized soon, she still is just very unsure about that date still. She mentioned Mom's email on FB, she really liked it. Anyway she's doing better.
I'll tell you about Saturday, so we spent all of Saturday morning and early afternoon with President and Sister Watkins. Elder Fisher had a baptism in Pleasanton he wanted to go to, and asked President Watkins last week if he was going because we didn't have a ride, and president called and told him just to come over early in the morning, have breakfast, watch a session of conference with them, head up to Pleasanton, and then come back, watch another session. So we did just that, it was really interesting, he was talking to us frankly about the current missionaries in the Chinese program, and how when he first came in all they did was bicker and complain and how right now none of them do that, that he doesn't have to play hardball when it comes to transfers and everything, he told us that we might be getting the trainee coming in this Wednesday. He is a redhead from Utah, he's in the MTC as we speak, and is coming into the field this Wednesday. So we'll look out for that.
That's it for this week. We have 6 new investigators. The 3 most promising are Alice, Simon, and Ke wei. They are all good. Pray for them. Thanks for the prayers on behalf of us and the work we are doing.
Love,
Elder Sanchez
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