August 6, 2012

 
 So this week was cool, it has rained every day, and Tuesday thru Thursday it rained all day, but Thursday was a typhoon day. So we were not permitted to go outside, which I thought I might as well enjoy and seemed like it would be fun. It was not. Although having time to cook a beef stroganoff with noodles from scratch (which tasted great), and time to clean and call people to our hearts content, and do WPS, by 4:00 p.m. I had some cabin fever. I couldn't stand staying in a small apartment for such a long time. So basically I appreciate the blessing of working outside. The typhoon was pretty serious, there was a lot flooding and when I went over a park bridge, I could see the river had become giant and it destroyed much of the shrubbery and lamp posts, etc. In the apartment it seemed hiahao (O.K.) but the park showed me why it was necessary to be inside.

   A cool miracle was Wednesday night: we had to go home because of the hurricane (not the miracle) but before going home we had planned tracking a place for an hour or so and when we had tracked every door, we still had some time so I thought of a place I had never tracked before. When I got there, I felt I might as well start at the furthest away point and work my way forward and so we road our bikes to the furthest point in that area and started tracking and the 2nd door I knocked on let us in, learned and committed to prayer and set a baptismal date. It was totally amazing. The second time that has happened in AnKang. This week I told someone, “I know god exists.”  He asked "Well have you seen miracles?" and I honestly told him "yes, every day I see miracles." He was shocked, and asked me to tell him some and I did. I felt my testimony strengthened but sadly he didn't set up a return appointment. But I feel I will remember that experience, looking in his eyes and saying I see miracles daily. Some other miracles this week: Twice when riding on a road we rarely road on or were on for a weird reason, an investigator (Brother Chen and Sistser QI ) honked at us and pulled us over and talked to us for a bit. It was so great. I love that they stopped us, it wasn't us stopping them.

      I really know that god is directing this work and preparing people. It is so amazing and also so simple. When you meet a prepared person and say read, pray and come to church, they will be baptized because god will answer their prayers and they will receive a testimony and many blessings along with it. I feel that these three things are so important. Also that praying about the truth of the Book of Mormon is important to, because you need to give god a chance to answer your prayers. So I would invite all of you to pray about the truth of the Book of Mormon and again from god receive an answer.

  Spiritual thought: In 1 Nephi 19:2 Nephi sees how miraculous it is that their wives were able be bare children in the wilderness and give plenty of suck for their children while surviving off of raw meat. A true miracle. Then later Laman and Lemuel complain about how their wives had suffered so many afflictions and they could have been partying in Jerusalem with plenty of money and land, and they could have been happy. As if money and land brings happiness. I believe that no matter what happened they would be miserable because they choose not to see the obvious miracles god gave them. Later they even receive the promised land!  I hope we all have the eye to see miracles in our lives, that god gives us. The obvious and less obvious ones and I know if we do so we will truly be happier.

   Love you all

Elder Sabey

Letter to president

Hey president
This week was good but a little harder, mostly due to the hurricane. It's been fun recently finding a ton of new investigators but they all seem to meet, set a baptismal date, set up a time then cancel because they are busy and won't commit to another time. I believe we have around 8 investigators who have a date but haven't meet a second time. I don't know what to do, I just keep calling them. Any advice?
  Elder Sabey