that during interviews president expressed to him that our
companionship was the most inspired out of all of the others. This was
Frustrating stories: I was sick this week. I also saw some pictures of
me before my mission and realized I'm fat. So now I'm on a salad diet,
and eating fruits for breakfast and veggies for dinner. So you can
basically say that my life is coming to an end as I was forced to buy
all that food for myself. I looked into the mirror and realized I have
never peeled an orange before...but today was the day
Grocery shopping was fun today because since I wrote my name on all
our food the other companionship didn't eat our stuff. So we actually
have stuff left over. What a miracle!
P-day adventures: went to the free mansion temple and learned more
about temple symbolism
Funny stories: on Saturday there was a nationwide party, they were
all on the tubes. All college and university students got on in their
costumes and cracked open a cold beer and partied. Little did they
know we were on board, people mistook us for missionaries from the
"book of Mormon" play and complemented us on our commitment. Not much
missionary work was done that hour.
That guy last week who thought we were filthy rich called us back and
wanted all our "financial contacts" and wanted to take us to a night
club. He is exactly like tom from parks and rec.
Long story short: this week was rough but the lord blessed me with
investigators despite my brattiness, and humbled me during Zone
training meeting
Short story long: this week has been a one of sickness. Our entire
flat got colds; headaches, fevers, sore throats, the works. I was the
second one to go down, I got sick but kept working until I couldn't
anymore. I took a nap and then kept trucking on. We all really planned
around our sickness this week because the enthusiasm for the work
wasn't quite as strong as your head is pounding. But as we put our
shoulder to the wheel the Lord blessed us continually throughout the
week. The president's standards are to find 3 new friends to
investigate the church and have 2 friends come to church. We were
definitely blessed as a former investigator Natasha we contacted on
the phone rediscovered an interest in the church and decided to meet
with us again. She is an English YSA who has a years worth of lessons
under her belt, she was a tough one. She came in like a dragon with
false doctrine from the internet asking questions she didn't even
really understand. But through the inspiration of the spirit elder mora
and I was able to thoroughly teach her gods plan of happiness for us
and it truly caught her interest. We have been forewarned by our
assistants to the president and our ward mission leader that she is a
tough one and to be careful with her. With another friend Renee, she
is a Malaysian girl who wanted to know more of the constructs of
Christianity and our beliefs. We met in Lester square next to china
town. ( side note I was very ill that day and I had to lay down before
the lesson). We taught her who god was and the importance of Jesus
Christ, and elaborated on the separation of god, christ, and the Holy
Ghost. We also discussed the importance of faith, repentance, and
baptism. While we were teaching her all this a homeless man walked up
to us and started talking with me and scared elder mora and Renee, I
didn't want the spirit to leave so I gave him some peace. He wanted
more but honestly, I didn't have more, I'm a missionary I'm constantly
broke😂 after the lesson we just did some phone contacting while I
laid down. We found a lot of success in finding people through the
phone, Facebook, and what (it's the way Chinese communicate due to
the strict internet usage in china). I have been praying so much for
my area to improve and to find opportunities to teach, and I felt like
my prayers were not being answered. Later on that week we went to zone
training meeting where we discuss the zone goals or investigators, and
baptisms going on. They put all the districts investigators on the
board, they started with our district. Only two companionships have
people on a date in our district ours and our district leaders, when we
went through our investigators and their troubles they said alright
that's everyone. I was astonished, out of our entire zone we were the
only companionships to have any investigators. It humbled me, it also
made me feel sorrow for asking and pleading for finding success in
inviting others to come to Christ and having very stern conversations
with him which I have repented of. It really put into perspective to
me how much the lord has blessed me personally in my life, and how
much I need to pray to recognize those blessings.
Benjamin sent a lot of photos!! Old and new
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