This week was pretty awesome mainly for the reason that I have an awesome trainee! For some reason I knew that we were going to be companions. We got along really well while babysitting (first night on the island) and had a great time together. I really think that we are going to see some huge miracles here in 苗栗. I'm super blessed as a trainer to be training someone with such a great ability in Chinese already. Because he can already speak basic conversational and gospel Chinese we are really going to focus on having him being involved in the teaching aspect of the work right off the back. We spend a lot of time practicing our lessons together and really planning out what he can contribute and we are seeing the blessings of that preparation. He is also studying his Chinese religiously and is going to progress faster than most new missionaries do. We are totally obedient and are really expecting to see some amazing things happen.
I can say this that in the past few days I've probably been the most tired I have in my whole mission. I have had semi lazy companions for quite some time now and it kinda feels like I am going 0-60 but I like the feeling. I come home every night literally crawling in the door (okay not literally but close enough). We are really going to focus on finding this next week because the 2 investigators we do have, while progressing, have some pretty big obstacles in the way for baptism. We really want to build up our investigator pool because right now we basically only have 2 people to meet with. We have a member referral that we are meeting with for the first time tomorrow and this will be my first one since being here in 苗栗for six months. X-- j--- shows a lot of promise and we are excited to meet with her.
The Bishop has said that he wants us to start focusing on meeting with more less actives and working with ward members on the home teaching of those less actives. I am really excited for this new assignment because I love working with less actives. We are going to be sitting down with our ward mission leader and making a plan for those people who we can start to visit and invite to church. We are continuing to work closely with new converts and are sharing the new member lessons with them. This is also going to provide my companion with the opportunity to practice teaching the lessons in a controlled environment and there won't be so much pressure.
I'm really happy that I am serving with Elder Okeson. He's got the greenie fire and we are really going to work hard to hasten the work. I love 苗栗 and am happy I'll have the opportunity to serve here for 9 months of my mission. I have some big goals this transfer the main one being to finish the whole Book of Mormon again. After that is finished my next goal will be to read it again in Chinese. I can't wait to see what will happen in the next three months because training truly does bring miracles.
I haven't had any crazy stories in the past little while and I know that is what everyone likes to hear about so I will make sure to do something fun this week haha.
Love ya'll and have a great week!
Elder Meeks
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