This week was incredible! A lot of the miracles we've been praying for recently came to fruition!
The greatest miracle of all was with our New (and now Progressing) investigator Kai Wang. We were able to meet with him after he attended the SF YSA Ward Sports Night. We finished teaching him the Restoration, and explained to him how we receive answers to our prayers through the feelings and impressions we receive from the Holy Ghost. It was easily the most powerfully spiritual lesson I've had as a missionary. Both Elder McKean and I were able to share simple but sincere testimony, particularly related to the Book of Mormon. Finally, his commitment to be baptized on February 17th was the icing on the cake! Both Elder McKean are very excited for this new opportunity, and Kai is looking forward to learning more about what it means to be a member of the church, particularly about the commandments. Wish us luck!
We also had a cool opportunity to teach one of our Recent Converts, Bro. Guan, about baptisms for the dead, and the basic doctrine of the temple. He is a little nervous to participate in the ordinance himself (things involving the dead are a little harder for Chinese people to accept, as it is a very touchy subject), but our discussion did kindle an interest in him to begin the process necessary for him to receive his own endowment. We've been hoping to find a way to help him in his conversion and progression in the gospel, and this might just be it! We hope that he continues to feel a desire to attend the temple and receive the Melchizedek Priesthood.
We've done a lot of service this week as well, even though its been wet and cold here on the Peninsula. We were able to find a few new potentials for English areas while tracting, but we've been trying to look for some other ideas for finding. Something cool that happened along those lines, is one night I felt that we should stay in and do some intense work on the Area Book. I felt a little guilty about this at first, as it isn't the very typical "work" thing to do. We called various potentials, but managed to find one who was interested. We are still looking for a time to meet with Fay, but it was a testament to me that we should follow impressions, and also that we could find people in the most unexpected ways.
The greatest miracle of all was with our New (and now Progressing) investigator Kai Wang. We were able to meet with him after he attended the SF YSA Ward Sports Night. We finished teaching him the Restoration, and explained to him how we receive answers to our prayers through the feelings and impressions we receive from the Holy Ghost. It was easily the most powerfully spiritual lesson I've had as a missionary. Both Elder McKean and I were able to share simple but sincere testimony, particularly related to the Book of Mormon. Finally, his commitment to be baptized on February 17th was the icing on the cake! Both Elder McKean are very excited for this new opportunity, and Kai is looking forward to learning more about what it means to be a member of the church, particularly about the commandments. Wish us luck!
We also had a cool opportunity to teach one of our Recent Converts, Bro. Guan, about baptisms for the dead, and the basic doctrine of the temple. He is a little nervous to participate in the ordinance himself (things involving the dead are a little harder for Chinese people to accept, as it is a very touchy subject), but our discussion did kindle an interest in him to begin the process necessary for him to receive his own endowment. We've been hoping to find a way to help him in his conversion and progression in the gospel, and this might just be it! We hope that he continues to feel a desire to attend the temple and receive the Melchizedek Priesthood.
We've done a lot of service this week as well, even though its been wet and cold here on the Peninsula. We were able to find a few new potentials for English areas while tracting, but we've been trying to look for some other ideas for finding. Something cool that happened along those lines, is one night I felt that we should stay in and do some intense work on the Area Book. I felt a little guilty about this at first, as it isn't the very typical "work" thing to do. We called various potentials, but managed to find one who was interested. We are still looking for a time to meet with Fay, but it was a testament to me that we should follow impressions, and also that we could find people in the most unexpected ways.
We had a great Stake Conference this week, with Elder Kent of the Seventy in attendance. He talked about how our testimonies of the gospel are like the pieces of a puzzle, we find the corner pieces first (testimony in the Book of Mormon, the Restoration, Joseph Smith, etc.) and then the edge pieces to build the border, which he compared to our understanding of the Plan of Salvation. Once we have the border to our puzzle firmly in place, we then look and put together all the pieces in the middle, that form our testimony; all the little principles and doctrines and policies of the church. Even if we don't agree with or don't understand where one of these "pieces" fits yet, we don't throw it away. We set it aside, and continue to build our puzzle, knowing that one day the picture will be made clear, and we will have all things brought to our understanding. I thought that was very insightful.
In addition to our work, Elder McKean and I have been having some fun. Elder McKean is a prankster, and is always tricking me and taking advantage of the extremely gullible person that I am. He's still definitely a great companion.
Please keep Kai in your prayers and thoughts! He needs help finding his answer, and we hope he responds well to the commitments we invite him to keep in future lessons.
Love you all! Have an amazing week!
Elder Butters/Bao ZhangLao
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