July 17, 2012

Hey all,

 I love you so much, I always look forward to reading your letters, sorry forgot to warn you this week is temple week so P-day is Wednesday. I am so glad you asked a lot of questions I will try to answer them.

How are you feeling about your companion?  Is he helping with your Chinese?  Tell us about your investigators, the branch?  What has your favorite p-day been?  Have you been caught in any rain storms?  Do you eat differently with a native companion than you did other companions? 

I love my companion. He is so fun to hang out with and his sense of humor is good. I only get a little frustrated when he doesn't proactively go and contact but waits for people to come near him. But our relationship is great and obviously his Chinese is helping. I believe mostly with the accent and grammar, oh and vocabulary and anything else there is to do with Chinese. So I am happy about that. I love it. My investigators are good, next week's Saturday Li Dixiong will get baptized as long as he passes off this Saturdays baptismal interview. He is such a great kid and friend. Husng Jiemei hasn't answered our calls for 2 weeks now so that's sad. But we have a new golden investigator who is awesome, named Chen Guolong he is so humble and has prayed daily since we invited him to and it has changed his life. When we gave him his The Book of Mormon he asked "Have I reached that level yet?" We assured him he could read it and He said "I will do my best to take the book and read the whole thing by reading it daily," This was before we even invited him to read it.

We also have some other great potentials or new investigators and I am excited. The branch is great and loves us missionaries, which is nice. My favorite P-day maybe was hiking a mountain which was super steep and sketchy and visiting Chiang Kia Sheks grave and memorial all in the same day. I always get caught in rainstorms the biggest one I was riding through a flood. That was cool. NO I eat about the same.

And: Are you losing weight? Do you feel healthy? I feel pretty darn healthy and am not sure about the weight part but it seems about the same.

And: how are you? I am Great. I love this area and my investigators and companion and branch, so I should be doing great.

Anyways here’s my letter to pres.

Hey President,
Thanks again for all the trust and love. I think that’s a good attribute.  God loves us and trusts us enough to be representatives of Jesus Christ in Taiwan. So thanks for the trust it means a lot.
This week was great. We saw some pretty big miracles, one day was so full of miracles I was baffled. In my prayer that night I just said "How great thou art." These miracles included talking with someone who hasn't answered our phone calls for 2 weeks, finding some prepared souls setting 4 new baptismal dates and receiving revelation during personal study.
 We have one investigator that will probably be baptized next week.  We met with him this week and ate dinner together and shared the apostasy and restoration again, because he often goes to other church’s activities and has many Christian friends that may not love our church so much. He really understood it this time and I felt a spiritual confirmation that he is now ready to be baptized. I love him and am excited for his life now. He hasn't been dealt the best hand of cards; he lived with his grandparents since he was a toddler because his parents abandoned him. He recently found out that he has an older brother and doesn't really know what to do about it. He rarely contacts his parents (one of them monthly, one yearly).  I am confused which is which, but when asked this week if he had money would he be willing to help them, he whole heartedly said yes. I love him and his charity and am excited for him and his new family in the church.
Thanks\Elder Sabey

Spiritual thought: I read Alma the Younger’s " Oh that I were an Angel” for district prep, and I just realized he had the experience he wanted to give to others, an angel calling him to repentance with the voice of thunder. But he said he sinned in the wish, and I thought why? And realized he wanted there to be "no sorrow" in all the earth (Satan’s plan) but by confessing he was immediately repenting and we see that his wish still came true.  Missionaries are called to be living angels, and Alma goes and calls people to repentance and brings many unto Christ. So God really does grant unto men according to their desires. As a song you all know, thanks to Rach, says "Be careful what you wish for ‘cause you just might get it all" SO I am wishing to baptize all of Taiwan...

Well love you all