ELDER HYRUM RICHARDSON #91
FEBRUARY 16, 2015
Well, this week was awesome!
Most importantly, Jonny (翁子翔) got baptized! The baptismal service went really smoothly, and we can tell that he's super excited about joining the church. He said in his testimony at the baptismal service that he always just had a feeling that this is right, and that's why he was willing to keep going and keep learning more. He's awesome.
Last Monday for P-Day, we went bowling in my old area, Zhonghe. I've never been good at bowling, but it's pretty fun anyway!
Wednesday was really fun. We went to another of my old areas, Neihu, and did a giant service project. Half of the missionaries in the mission went, and we set up about 800-900 tables and chairs for a charity dinner the next day. It was really fun! It was strange to walk around in normal clothes for awhile; I'm not used to not wearing a tie!
This week I could not remember the word laminate. I was trying to tell my companion that something was laminated, but all I could remember was 護貝. It took me like 5 minutes to remember the correct English word for it...my English is getting really bad!
Thursday we had a cool miracle. We had a lesson get done early so we decided to go tracting near the house of one of our members. At the first house we knocked we found Johnny. He lives about an hour away, but he was here just for a day to take care of his grandmother. He said that he doesn't really have a religion, but he believes in God, and has been looking for more in his life. We talked with him for about a half an hour, and he said he thought it was really special that we ran into him because he was there for a really short time. He said he was willing to meet with the missionaries in Taoyuan. It was a really neat miracle to meet somebody who was so ready to here the gospel!
On Friday, I went on exchanges to MuZha (木柵) with Elder Wu. It's always fun to go to a new area and do some missionary work there! We went contacting at one of the big universities there and found some cool people to talk to.
At English class on Wednesday, we had a new student who's name was Rain. She lives in Shanghai, but has been visiting here for a few months. After class she came up and starting asking us about the Book of Mormon and about what our church believes. Then on Friday, we were riding home and we ran into her on the street! She says that she really wants to learn more about our church, but she's going back to China after the New Year, so we gave her a Book of Mormon, and hopefully she'll be able to learn a lot from that!
Well that was pretty much this week. This next week is Chinese New Year, so that means that we eat until we explode!
Elder Richardson
任長老
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