We visited an awesome LA family this week. They are they S--- J-----. I love visiting them. There situation is pretty sad but the gist of it is is that they are embarrassed to come back to church. They haven't been for over 5 years. They are totally okay with us missionaries visiting them and they express gratitude every time we come. I'm not quite sure how to help them. We will just continue meeting with them and loving them. We are also going to try and get a couple of members involved. They are a great family.
There is a recent convert in our ward named W---- J-----. She recently has been called to be a ward missionary so we have been trying to give her some opportunities to Peike. She is still really young in the gospel so we have been using one of our eternal investigators when we ask her to Peike. The investigator is definitely the one teaching her about the gospel and it is so cool. I wish we could use this investigator as a Peike all the time. He has such a strong testimony but has some pretty big Word of Wisdom problems and he is also the oldest son of a very Buddhist family. Therefore his family really oppose.
We also had a great opportunity to have correlation this week. Our MM leader is really busy and usually has not been to interested in having correlation meeting. This week we really pushed for it and it went really well. He told us that he really wants to start getting more involved. He also believes the members are ready to get more involved in the missionary work. There are many members who are so busy and have really rough lives therefore it is a little difficult for me to ask them to help out in the work. But when they do help us it always goes better. It is a great testimony to me how members make lessons much better.
There is an older man in our ward who has been less active for a while. But the last two weeks he has come to church. We had the opportunity to help do some service for him last week and he took us to tepanyaki. It was such a great time. I really have grown to love this man. He said he has a new fire in him about coming to church and that meeting with us is his favorite time of the week. He has taught us how to do the Rubik's cube, Chinese Chess, and a bunch of random little puzzles and stuff. Such a great guy. His situation is very difficult as well. He has a daughter who is blind and deaf and doesn't really talk that much. She is 57 years old. He has taken care of her his entire life. Yesterday he was talking about how he used to be so angry at her but after he met the missionaries and understood what true repentance was he had a change in his outlook. He really believes God gave him this challenge to be a better person and he thanks him for it. I really admire him.
We found a kid through some potential investigators that we have started to meet with. He is doing really well. We are excited to keep sharing the gospel with him.
We are continuing to meet with W---- D------ who is doing really well. I really enjoy meeting with this man. Lately our visits with him have been a little short because of time constraints but every time we meet with him he teaches me something about how I can be a better missionary. This week his lesson was how we can get Taiwanese people to listen to us. He said here in Taiwan time is everything. Everyone's time is super important. So our goal is to somehow get people to realize the value of our message in a short contact. He told us that we need to start believing that the wisdom and knowledge we have to share is more important then the thing that person has to do in that moment. I thought that was really good advice.
Okay so funny story that I heard this week. I seriously laughed for about 10 minutes straight. There are two sisters in my zone that I'm super tight with. Sister J---- and Sister P-----. We always do P-Day stuff with them. But anyway, last Friday we all went and played frisbee together. Our tradition is to go to breakfast together after. At breakfast they were telling me that the night before the Sister training leader was on exchanges with the other missionary in their apartment. It was about 10:25 and they were gettin in their beds. They were kinda just laughing and joking around... having fun. (It's allowed on the mission). Sister O------, the Sister training leader, asks them if every night is just like a big sleep over and having fun. They are like, "Yea we all have a good time together." Sister J------ then asks, "So sister O------ what is your story? Where are you from?" Just trying to be nice of course. SHE THEN REPLIES, "Well I am planet earth where people go to bed on time and tell them their life stories next week when they are on exchanges." Turns over and doesn't talk anymore. SO RUDE!!! AND HILARIOUS! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sister J------ and Sister P------ did all they could do from bursting out in laughter. Oh these silly missionaries that become robots on the mission. Super sad... But they definitely provide some entertainment for us other missionaries.
We are headed to the zoo today. It should be a good time. A few of my MTC peeps are gonna be kickin it with us so I am super stoked.
I am enjoying my mission. My language ability is getting to the point where I can understand probably about 80 to 90% of what is being said. I'm still improving everyday in speaking skills and I know that God is definitely on my side. I don't know how I remember all the vocab I study everyday but it happens and it is such a huge blessing. My comp and I are doing fine, the work here in ankang is going well, and I'm happy for the most part. My goal is to become content. :)
Love ya'll sorry this is so long!
Elder Meeks
P.S. You know you are in Taiwan if people comment about how fat you are all the time. ;)
No comments:
Post a Comment