Matt's first week

Hey family,A few more things, then my week.

Ok so my week was crazy. The worst and hardest thing is my companion went home today. I don't know why, he didn't tell me anything, it is not how I hoped my first companionship would go. We have been going to interviews so I knew something was going on but he told me at 11 that he was going at 11:30, so I helped him pack and sent him off. It is so weird to me, he went to the temple with me today, and last night we were
all laughing. I just hope and believe I had nothing to do with it.   Tonight the branch will decided what to do.

Now on a more happy note, this week has been filled with tender mercies. Our "investigator" (the teacher next door) Pan Jisheng has started reading the Book of Mormon, and has committed to pray. I want to tell a story about our last lesson, I started off by asking if he loves his family, we knew the dad died so I promised him that through Christ's atonement,  families can be together forever. I asked how he felt when he read the Book of Mormon and he said he felt good, I told him that was the Holy Ghost. Then my companion taught the lesson where he tried to explain how to pray. We challenged him to pray and he said he didn't know how, so we gave him the instructions in Chinese, and told him this is how, he read it and we asked him if he could pray and he said yes, we bowed our head and closed our eyes, and he read the instructions as "the prayer." I realized and opened my eyes and he was laughing to himself. It was funny, so after word I tried to tell him that that was the instructions but I don't know the word for instructions, and the word "fangfa"-method --came to mind so I was able to explain that the instructions were the method of prayer, and then helped him pray. That was not the only time that I came to a stumbling block and the word I needed came to mind. I am also remembering words from high school that I forgot without putting in much work. The gift of tounges is real.

We had elder Bateman and president Brown give devotionals that were amazing, and I watched the Testaments, and I got to go to the temple today. I felt the spirit strongly in all of them. One was on faith, another baptism, and even though our temple time was at 6:30 so we had to get up early, when I entered The celestial room I felt the spirit strongly there. 

What's new at home? Anything you want me to write about?

I love you all and pray for you each night.

I think next week I will write down what I am going to say so that I can type a longer letter, sorry if this is short.

Elder Matt SAbey