Where has May gone? I'm not entirely sure.
We are at the end of the 2nd transfer back here in 7 Springs Chinese Branch.
I have now been here in this branch for a total of 7 transfers. I will probably finish my mission here, so a total of 9 transfers, that's 54 weeks! 1 year total here in this branch, how awesome is that?
Well anyway, I didn't really write anything last week because I was so totally and utterly happy that I was able to talk to everyone on Skype, I can't believe how time flies, I felt like I just skyped home yesterday, when in fact it was on Christmas, that was 5 months ago. Crazy how fast time flies here in the mission.
These past 2 weeks have been pretty amazing, we have still been really doubling our efforts and doing everything we can in order to find new investigators.
I'll list off all of the new investigators we have found, and all of the cool experiences that we have had with them so far!
1. Alan
Alan is a 17 year old young man whose mom ran into the missionaries, she herself is not very interested in the gospel, but she said her son was very interested in the gospel, and that he has been attending different Christian churches, so we started meeting with him around 3 weeks ago, and ever since he has been really awesome to teach, just really great. He is quite receptive, does our commitments including reading, and has come to church this past Sunday. It was great, and he has been pretty well integrated into the branch/ English ward so far.
He talked to us about the Holy Ghost, and the other day he told us "You know I had an impression by the Holy Ghost that I should keep going on the path that I am with you guys" and now he has a baptismal date for the 21 of June. great!
2. Tiffany
This was a member referral from none other than our latest recent convert Barrett who was baptized while I was in Menlo Park. Anyway last week we met her for the first time on a Saturday, and we taught the restoration, and how we can know its true, and she said she usually wakes up around 2 pm on sundays, but she came anyway! our church starts at 10:20.
She loved Relief Society and the sisterhood there, and has made a lot of friends there,
this past week we talked about the Plan of Salvation, and she had a question about where her best friend went after she died. This was before we even got into the lesson and before she knew what we were going to discuss. It was a great teaching experience for me, because I have had to face different challenges with this in my life, and being about to bear testimony of it was really great. I felt the spirit strongly letting me know that she was able to feel of the truthfulness of our message.
3. Mason
This was a referral from another set of Elders in the Los Altos stake just above us, they let us know at the Zone Conference in the past week that they have an investigator named Mason that they have been teaching for 3 weeks without much budge, because of the language barrier, so anyway we taught him the first lesson 2 days ago, and he loved it, was glad he was able to understand it fully this time. Mason lives in Mountain View which is quite a ways away from Cupertino, about a 15 minute drive, so maybe 40 minute bike ride.
He came to church yesterday! He came in regular clothes and he asked us all sweaty and tired "where's the bathroom?!" and then he went in and he came out in a white shirt and tie, what a great guy!
He loved it! It was so good. He is meeting with us this Thursday to continue the lessons.
Anyway that's all I can write this week, I may or may not have great news next Monday on the prospects for my last 2 transfers here in California.
Stay tuned.
Love,
Elder Sanchez
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