ELDER RICHARDSON LETTER #96
MARCH 23, 2015
Last Tuesday, we met with 彭紹維 (Brother Peng) and shared about the rest of the commandments. He was a little sad because his first attempt at quitting smoking had failed, and he relapsed that morning. But we gave him some encouragement and he recommitted. It was cool because when he said his closing prayer, he asked God to help him stop smoking and he said it really forcefully and loud, like he was really determined. Then on Friday he has his baptismal interview, and he passed! Elder Hawkins told him that if he touched another cigarette that he couldn't get baptized, and Brother Peng said that he would do it. If all goes smoothly the baptism will be this Saturday! Yesterday at church our whole ward got really excited for him, and hopefully they'll all be there to welcome him!
I think I mentioned 蔡海山 Brother Cai last week. He originally told us that he would not be able to go to church until this next week, but somehow things worked out and he came to the first half hour of church yesterday! He got to see some of the members that he met before and meet the ward mission leader before he had to go. And he said that he'll come to all of church next week. He also paid his tithing before he left!
We visited the Bishop on Friday and he also invited his neighbor to eat dinner with us. So we got to share with his family and his neighbor, and give them a chance to fell the Spirit in his home. It was a great example of a way to do missionary work without being overbearing!
One of my jokes with Elder Davidson is that I just tell people that I have "about 3-4 months" left so that people don't tell me that I'm going home soon.
On Saturday we took Brother Cai with us to a baptism in another ward. It turns out that the member who was supposed to do the musical number couldn't come, so Elder Davidson and I put together a version of Amazing Grace in about ten minutes and performed that for the baptism. It went pretty well considering we had almost no practice!
On Sunday, we went to visit an 阿嬤 "A'ma" (means grandma) who we ran into last week. She is about 90 years old, but looks like she is 70, and she has been a Christian her whole life. We got there and she gave us a really cool gift (I don't know how to describe it, but I have a picture). So we said we brought a gift for her. We gave her a Book of Mormon and taught her about how the Book of Mormon testifies of Christ. She LOVED it. She hugged the book and said that she would start reading it immediately. She also said she wanted us to come meet her minister and gives a Book of Mormon to all of the people at her church! We aren't to sure about that, but it's cool to see her enthusiasm for it!
I learned some new cultural things this week. Apparently, if there is a chicken head on the table, the boss will typically point the chicken beak at the next person who is going to get fired, or as they say "被 fire-掉“ (bei4 fire diao4) (they just say the English!). Also, if somebody drops a chopstick, it's actually is a good thing because it means somebody else is paying for the meal!
Last night, we got out of our last lesson a little late and missed the last bus. Instead of waiting 30 min for the next one, we decided to just walk the 25 min home so that we could get home on time. As we were walking down the mountain, we started talking to some people that were walking too, and they ended up giving us a ride home! They weren't very interested in the gospel, but they were really nice and did a great service for us. They said it was just destiny that we met and that they could help us!
It was a good week, and we've already got some great plans for next week!
Add oil!
Elder Richardson
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On left we have some delicious pig heart and on the right some pig galbladder...all just sitting in the open in carrefour.
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Picture of the sunset right by 周爸 Zhou Ba's house.
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The gift that we got from our A'ma investigator hanging on our investigator whiteboard in the apartment
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