ELDER RICHARDSON'S WEEKLY LETTER #18
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
I had a pretty good week this week! Our missionary work was a little slower, mostly due to the Moon Festival and another typhoon, but all in all it went pretty well.
This week we worked a lot on
"Project Pylon" which is our area's vision for this ward. Our goal is
to "construct additional pylons" by increasing the membership of the
ward and helping them become self sustaining. (I don't think anyone gets
the Starcraft reference, but if you did, you would know that it was
sufficiently nerdy.) "Project Pylon" is a part of "Project Honeypot"
which is our district vision. So this week we spent a lot of time
reorganizing our ward list by road so that it is easier to find less
actives. It was a good project for when it was raining buckets outside.
But don't worry, we did get out on our bikes for plenty of time out in
the windy and rainy typhoon. That was super fun.
This week I went on an exchange with Elder
Montierth. He has been on his mission for even less time than me, so it
was weird being senior companion, and being the one who had to speak
Chinese to everyone! We taught an investigator the first lesson and also
found a new one! I could DEFINITELY feel the Lord's help in my Chinese
during both of those lessons.
As we were walking on the street to try to find one
of our new investigators (who ended up not being there) there were a
couple of people barbecuing on the street who invited us over to eat
some of there food. That's what they do for the Moon Festival. They all
get a sidewalk grill and just cook outside their shop and eat different
kinds of meat. So we went and sat with them and they just showered us
with food; we almost couldn't eat it all! Throughout that, they offered
us cigarettes, alcohol, and betel nut, which we of course turned down.
It's funny that a lot of times the Word of Wisdom is the first thing
that we teach.
We've gotten a lot of fruit the past few weeks.
Apparently it is especially this time of year. People just like to give
us fruit! I've eaten a lot of Pomelos, which America doesn't have. It's
hard to describe. They are shaped like a pear, and you peel it kind of
like an orange. We've also eaten a lot of passion fruit and got some
star fruit as well.
Something my companion and I were discussing this
week was about people who are atheist. Something that Talmage talks
about in Articles of Faith (what my companion has been reading) makes an
interesting point. A lot of people think that the religious people must
prove the existence of God in order to be right. Talmage makes the
point that since the beginning of time, humans have believed in the
existence of God. It is a part of our nature to believe in something
greater than us. Therefore, among other reasons, Talmage says, it is the
responsibility of the atheist to prove the non-existence of God. I
thought that was an interesting point. A lot of people use science to
claim that God does not exist, but I don't think there is anything
science can do to deny the existence of God, simply because of the
nature of science itself! I thought that was really interesting.
-When it rains, and I'm trying to keep my stuff dry,
I use a plastic bag that you get when you buy a comforter or blanket.
It's just a little plastic pouch that is surprisingly waterproof, and it
protects my stuff! I just put my stuff in that, and then the whole
thing in my bag.
-I bought a Chinese/English Bible. It's super nice,
and I'm really excited to be able to use it. I didn't get one in the MTC
because they ran out, but now I have one to share Bible verses with
people!
-When we read the white handbook in the morning for companionship study, my companion reads in his best George Bush voice.
-My companion had a dream that he was fighting North Korean raptors and I cut a flying bullet with a dagger.
-That have a drink that is just called "juice milk."
If you ate trix cereal, and then drank the milk afterwards, that's
exactly what this takes like.
I had a good week! I hope you did too!
Elder Richardson
田長老
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