每周信函2014年7​月21日

Hey everyone, another week has passed by and now I am in week 3 of 6 of my last transfer on my mission, what a weird statement that seems to be to say. I got my travel documents in the mail over the weekend.

My flight leaves San Jose on August 20, at 9:04 AM, and I go through LAX, DET, and finally to Allentown ABE.

I get home at 9:14 PM.

In other news Paul, (Li Pan) is doing super well, and we are really excited for him, we went to the temple together this past weekend, he spent the entire day with us and we honestly had a lot of time to get to know him, instead of using the mission car, we rode around in his BMW all day. It was a great day, and he said it was a true turning point in his life. He is also being fellowshipped greatly in church and has made at least 5 new friends at church. I love Li Pan, and he has truly become a friend of mine that I will keep for a lifetime. He wants to come visit us in Pennsylvania when its time go to back home. That would be great, he is a wonderful guy.

Peter postponed baptism a few more weeks again in order to make sure he is ready. His date is August 16 now, which will be my last Saturday in this mission, it's a real hard hit fo me to realize that that is my last weekend here. I can't believe it.

Sherry! She is such a wonderful gal, and we finally had a chance to meet with her this week for the first time for real since April. It was great. She has been coming to church pretty often and regularly but lately she has not wanted to meet with us, but this past week we had a chance to start the lessons over again. I am hoping she can be baptized by the time I finish this transfer up. Please pray for her!

I have been compiling a list of things I have learned on my mission, and some of my most choice experiences, and we will be getting that email from me in a few weeks. I am grateful for all of you.

See you soon,

Love Elder Sanchez

每周信函2014年7​月14

This week has gone by quicker than last week, why does this seem to be a trend? I'm kind of boggled that i'm officially on week 100 of my mission out of 104.

This week we worked a lot with our investigators, and everything ended up okay. I'll highlight two of our investigators progress for this week.

PETER! So Peter has his baptismal date moved back once again, just because he feels like to wait a few more weeks. I hope Peter is not my last baptism before I leave my mission, I hope we are able to help one other go into the waters of baptism. He is doing really well despite some of the struggles that he has been having.

SISTER HOU:

She met with us for the first time this week, and it went really great. We had a member present and taught her the first lesson, she agreed to meet with us weekly on Sundays! She is around 60 years old and from Beijing.

LI PAN:

My favorite investigator I've ever had, he is just great. He agreed with meet with us this past Saturday every week, and came to church and loved it, stayed after church for like 45 minutes to talk to everyone.

I find it hard to find things to write about here, but maybe next week I will have better luck.

Love you all, see you in a few weeks.

Elder Sanchez

每周信函2014年7​月7日

Hey everyone, here's the longer journal entry you have been waiting for.

This week was really quite amazing, I loved it so much, it was the last week of the transfer, not onl did we get a new mission president, we got a totally new way of thinking now since he has come in.

We had a chance to do a meet and greet meeting with him on Wednesday and we had a great time getting to know him, he seems like a young buck but in reality he is 56, I thought he was in his 40's to be honest. But he is the big cheese for sure

It was great to get to know him, I won't get to know him all too well as today is the start of my last transfer here in the field, that's right, the sad news is here.

Anyway besides that we had a great week and had an opportunity to pick up a new investigator, her last name is Hou and she is from Beijing, she has come to church two weeks in a row, and has already accepted the missionary lessons from us.  

We also had a GREAT 4th of July. Pres Mella let us stay out later than usual to watch the fireworks with an investigator, so we also invited one of our other newer investigators Li Pan and he is the best, he is a newcomer here to the US and has only been here for about 1 month and is studying here. He is in his early 30's and loves meeting new people, he got acquainted with me over a conversation club that we did at his English Language school, I got his info and we have been in touch since then, he is really prepared. It was totally fun, we stayed at a members house for dinner and fireworks which were pretty much right above their house.

It's pretty unreal how fast these past transfers are going, and how fast this next one will go. I hope it doesn't go too fast. Hope everyone has a good week, still trying to do better on thelength of my emails home. Time is just so precious here.

Elder Sanchez