This week my zone is going to the temple on Wednesday, so even though we get to email today for an hour, our actual p day is on Wednesday. What I'm trying to say is...you'll have to wait until Wednesday for the song. :'(
This week was pretty good, though. On Monday, the Jiang family pinky promised that their kids would be baptized next month(July). So now it's time to redouble our efforts to help them come to church. Pray for them! We did exchanges with the assistants on Tuesday where we saw lots of miracles and found some really cool people who I'm excited to work with. One was a former investigator family. The mom is Vietnamese and works really hard making tennis balls to support her family. She also has a SUPER smart daughter who wants to be a lawyer when she grows up and has really strong faith in God already. AND, they rest on Sundays. It's like they were made for the gospel or something. We had a return appointment for this last Saturday, but there were some scheduling conflicts and we ended up not being able to go by. We rescheduled for next Saturday though!
We invited Daniel to be baptized this week and he was pretty willing, but when he asked his mom, he said she got this really upset look on her face and said he could go to church and meet with us and everything, but he couldn't be baptized. That made us sad, but if he's willing to keep progressing and living the gospel, I think she'll come around when she sees how he changes.
We finally got in contact with the wanabe rock-star guy. That was an awesome lesson. He was talking about how he struggles with being lazy and he doesn't see any way of getting over it. We testified of the enabling power of the atonement and he looked like he felt something, but then he didn't come to church:(. Next time...
On Friday, we went over to the Fang family's house and taught the parents the plan of salvation. The mom especially seemed really touched and gave a closing prayer. I really think there's hope for that family! Keep praying for them:) Also, we found out that their surname is really rare which made them even more cool! Most Fang's are this character: 方, but they're this character: 枋.
We met a guy named Louis on exchanges with Elder Pihl and he's one of the most golden kids I've ever met. He's just one of those kids who actually thinks about religion and takes it seriously. He had some really deep questions like what the purpose of life is and how he can get closer to God. But he's pretty busy, so we weren't able to set a return appointment with him.
On Friday there was a BAPTISM! It's Travis and Tracy. I don't know if I've written about them a lot, but we eat at their family's breakfast shop at least twice a week. They've been investigating for almost 2 years and they're still struggling a bit with coming to church(their parents make them work Sundays), but they decided it's time to get baptized. We worked with them a bit, but they live in the other ward so they ended up getting baptized there. Here they are:
Travis likes joking around so that's why he's not smiling, but everyone else looks good, so whatever:)
And these are all the missionaries that have worked with them that are still in the area. Lots of love at that baptismal service:) Elder Hill(to my left) is tickling me so that's why my face is so scary. Sorry.
Roger wasn't able to come to church again(he has insomnia and didn't get to bed at all Saturday night) so he dropped his baptismal goal, but we're meeting with him tomorrow and he's still been reading the Book of Mormon. I told him he could pray and ask God to help him with his insomnia. He sounded pretty excited about that.
Yesterday, we met with an investigator who's great uncle had just died and had left behind a bunch of stuff, so he let us go in and take whatever we wanted. There was some pretty cool stuff in there. I got a little door hanger thingy and one of those pictures that they sew. I'll just have to send some pictures.
This was my favorite thing there. It's probably super illegal though...
That's about it folks! I hope you have a great week. I'm thinking there are some baptisms right around the corner:)
-Elder Smith
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