Sunday, January 1, 2012

Week 28

Happy New Year! This past week has been a little rough, but we've still seen miracles. For example -- this was an interesting one -- yesterday I was riding on the sidewalk with my bike, when I a car hit my front wheel. No damage was done, but he quickly said sorry and kept driving. I thought, "well that's not very nice" and so called out to him, and asked if he wanted to learn more about our message of Jesus Christ. He said "Oh yeah, sure. You can find me here (pointed to his work building) after 5." He gave me his number and name. So the Lord works in some pretty amusing ways. Goes to show that a missionary will do anything to find those prepared to hear the Gospel :P We've hit a low point in lessons we taught this week. But it's alright! We currently have 2-3 progressing towards baptism. The first one is Qiu1 dx. He's been meeting with us for a while now, but he's finally making commitments to change, like coming to church and taking notes, and quitting coffee. He's doing great. It's just hard for him to make too big of a change all at once. We are meeting with a kid named A-bin1 (Luo2 Wen2 Bin1). We like to call him A-binadi. He's an awesome person. He loves to play, but he's willing to calm down and stay for lessons. Although he seems miserable while we teach him, I know that he learns a lot and he likes meeting with us. He's 16, and he's already been smoking for 3 years. He's trying to quit, and so we're helping him. He has a goal to totally quit by Jan 8th. So far so good. He has a baptismal goal for the 21st of January. We also are teaching Yang2 Hao4 dx. He loves to talk, but he's really interested in being our friend, as well as learning more about the gospel. Right now his parents are a little disapproving of his meeting with us, but they won't stop him. He has class sunday morning so he wont' be able to come to church for a while. But we're praying for him a lot -- There'll be a way. So yes, amongst a little harder time, we're still having success. We'll just have a lot more time to go finding! Finding those prepared to let the Gospel of Jesus Christ change their lives. We're learning the New Testament here this year. I'm excited to learn more stories about our Savior, Jesus Christ. Thank you for all your Christmas letters and packages! I love you all! Love, -Elder Liu

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