This week has been pretty eventful and awesome. We're still working with the Jiang family. We've talked to the ward and hopefully, we'll be going over with a member of the new Bishopric sometime soon. ZTM on tuesday took up our morning and half of our afternoon, but I think it went over well and one of the sisters in our zone made pumpkin cake and chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting. I had the pumpkin one. It was divine. Needless to say, we're glad to have her in the zone. On Wednesday, it was my birthday. We spent some time that day preparing for the English party that night. Our district found out it was my birthday that day and thought it would be fun to do an "Unbirthday Party" and show everyone some games we play at american/brittish birthday parties. My companion and I manned the pass the parcel game.
We also had musical chairs, root beer floats, a balloon popping game, and something else I forgot. Then, for the spiritual share, we put on a really awesome campy play about a kid's birthday party where he realizes the Jesus is the best gift of all. I was playing background music on the piano/narrating the whole thing. It ended up being really awesome and helped me realize how much of a difference music can really make in the mood. It was probably one of the best plays I've ever co-written and done the music for.
On Thursday, we had a MIRACLE! Do you remember the man we contacted a few weeks ago after zone conference who was sad because his grandfather? Well he called us Thursday afternoon and asked if we could go meet him at the chapel. He brought us kiwi juice because, as he said, he'd "done his homework" and knew we didn't drink things with caffeine in them. Not completely accurate, but cool nonetheless. He seemed really interested, but doesn't want to go too fast. His mother ran away to be a Buddhist monk when he was 18 so I think he might be a little afraid of doing the same thing. So when we talked about baptism, he got a little shifty. He came to church that sunday for all three hours, though and then sat with us afterward to talk about some questions he had. We taught him the rest of the message of the Restoration and he committed to read the Book of Mormon. We have a lot of hope for him!
Also on Thursday, I got to exchange with my son, Elder Stevens. I brought him over to Daya. It was awesome. He's gained so much confidence since we served together. His expectations for the exchange were to expect miracles and teach to people's needs. That's my boy:). So, on the exchange, we prayed for and expected miracles and we saw quite a few. One was Thursday evening when we met with a family we're working with. The dad was home with one of his friends. His friend left halfway through the lesson. We shared about Joseph Smith and prayer after his friend left and Mr. Fang was pretty intrigued with prayer and how it differed from ancestor worship. He sounded pretty excited that you could pray at any time, anywhere. I think that family may go somewhere. We said we'd bring a member with us next Thursday. I'm excited for that family. They might just be the one that gets baptized!
The next day, the miracles continued. We went tracting on a street our bishop's wife had recommended. The first area we tracted was less than welcoming, but we still had a little time so we went to another group of houses down the road a little ways and prayed that we'd see a miracle. The 6th house down the line had a younger guy who was home who let us in and we were able to share the Restoration with him. He's pretty busy, but said he'd be interested in hearing more.
Then at church we had two investigators. Vincent(the miracle man from Thursday) came, as well as Daniel, a student from English class. They both stayed all 3 hours and really liked it. We did a training in the third hour on how no effort is wasted in missionary work. There was a really good response from the members there. I'm excited to be able to work more closely with them.
This is Elder Anderson's last transfer and it's my last full transfer, so we're just going to give it our all. Good things are coming. We can feel it:)
-Elder Smith
This week's song is "Did You Think to Pray."
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