Loved ones!
Nimen zenma yang? This week was so incredible; I am so excited to tell
you about it. But first I will answer your questions.
How is your companion doing? He is awesome. I enjoy being with him and
helping him to overcome some of his fears. He is willing to do almost
anything I tell him to do. He is also being more and more open with
me. Are you enjoying Chinese? YES! I love it. I passed off phase
three this week, which is exciting. I still don't have incredible
Chinese like the other three senior companions in my district, but
they all are seriously geniuses. I feel fine about my Chinese. I just
need to keep learning, man man lai. What about the culture? The
culture is also great. The food is amazing especially during cooler
times of the year. Also the culture is great for missionary work. We
rarely if ever get yelled at. It makes me so happy. Their method of
rejecting you most the time is saying “thank you, thank you” tons of times while backing away. It is hilarious. The best part is probably the
Taiwanese focus on family. I love it. Almost all families love close
to each other including grandparents, brothers and sisters. If not the
child of the grandparent will take his family to visit his parents
weekly. It is so cool. But also the reason for the heartbreak we had
this week. Our golden investigator we found, Zhou jiemie went to visit
her mom in Gaoxiong, and was gone for a week. While there her family
had an intervention with her and she promised them she would never
pray to our god again, and would support the family beliefs. It was so
sad when she told us, and my heart literally felt like it plummeted
to the ground. But enough on that. Mom said "I want to hear about
successes this week." Which is perfect because we had a ton.
This week on Monday we went on exchanges and I was with Elder
Johnson, my companion in AnKang. We went visiting LA's addresses and
one I must have read wrong and went to 23 hao, when it was 2 hao 3rd floor
so we went to the wrong place and there was no one home so Elder
Johnson rang the doorbell below and they let us in without even asking
who we were. SO we went up and lo and behold there was a family. They
were so nice and let us in and we got to share a simple message with
them, and are meeting again with them tonight. So a total miracle.
Then on Friday we went on exchanges again and I was with Elder
Kattleman who lives with us and is also a first transfer missionary. We
went to an appointment at a "family mart" and our investigator wasn't
there on time, but there was a guy sitting alone inside of it so we
went and started sharing with him about the gospel, and while sharing
with him 2 Pilipino women walked in and one said "Elder, I am so
glad to see you." So I talked with them while my companion continued
sharing with the other guy. Then went on to explain she was a member,
and had been in Taiwan for a year and hadn't found the church yet and
really wanted to come. But turned out this Sunday she was meeting with
her sister and had not time. Also she is a lu4chi3, so next week we
will take her from the family mart to church. The other Pilipino is
a catholic and said she might come next week to so totally crazy, then
they left and almost immediately the actual investigator came in and I
taught him while my companion taught the other guy. Then as we left
the family mart we saw a lady knock a bike over and went to help her
pick it up and she turned out to be an extremely less active member who
was willing to come back (or so she said, but on Sunday she didn't
come, but we will see). Then we went and did family picture contacting
(our plan) and we got a set up for the next day which went through and
he is also a new investigator, It was so incredible. I don't know if I
have seen so many miracles in such a short period of time. I also
think it was no coincidence this all happened the day after we got the
sad news from Zhou Jiemei. We also had two less active families that
we have been working with come to church. That felt great and one of
our investigators shanged wan ke, and got the feeling that god said he
could choose if he was ready and he said he was so he will be having a
baptismal interview this week! Then last night after church we went to
a referrals house and all we knew was that he might be divorced because
his daughter lives in Taoyuan. But it turned out that he was married
and his wife was there and we asked her to join in our lesson and she
did and they set a baptismal date! It was so great. We are now
teaching 3 complete families! God has blessed us so much.
This is my letter to president
Hey President,
Thanks for such a great training. I love finding families, and it has
really helped me enjoy finding them even more. This week we found 2
full families and one mother who brought her 2 kids. It was so
amazing. Your training worked. I will attach a part of my letter to my
family about the miracles I saw.
This week on Monday we went on exchanges and I was with Elder
Johnson, my companion in AnKang. We went visiting LA's addresses and
one I must have read wrong and went to 23 hao, when it was 2 hao 3rd floor
so we went to the wrong place and there was no one home so elder
Johnson rang the doorbell below and they let us in without even asking
who we were. SO we went up and lo and behold there was a family. They
were so nice and let us in and we got to share a simple message with
them, and are meeting again with them tonight. So a total miracle.
Then on Friday we went on exchanges again and I was with Elder
Kattleman who live with us and is also a first transfer missionary. We
went to an appointment at a "family mart" and our investigator wasn't
there on time, but there was a guy sitting alone inside of it so we
went and started sharing with him about the gospel, and while sharing
with him 2 Filipino women walked in and one said "Elder, I am so glad
to see you." SO I talked with them while my companion continued
sharing with the other guy. Then went on to explain she was a member,
and had been in Taiwan for a year and hasn't found the church yet and
really wanted to come. But turned out this Sunday she was meeting with
her sister and had not time. Also She is a lu4chi3, so next week we
will take her from the family mart to church. The other Filipino is
a catholic and said she might come next week to so totally crazy, then
they left and almost immediately the actual investigator came in and I
taught him while my companion taught the other guy. Then as we left
the family mart we saw a lady knock a bike over and went to help her
pick it us and she turned out to be an extremely less active member who
was willing to come back (or so she said, but on Sunday she didn't
come, but we will see). Then we went and did family picture contacting
(our plan) and we got a set up for the next day which went through and
he is also a new investigator, It was so incredible. I don't know if i
have seen so many miracles in such a short period of time. I also
think it was no coincidence this all happened the day after we got the
sad news from Zhou Jiemei. We also had two of the three less active
families that we have been working came to church which felt great!
Especially because we only had one investigator to church. That one
investigator shanged wan ke, and got the feeling that god said he
could choose if he was ready and he said he was so he will be having a
baptismal interview this week! I am so excited. Then last night after
church we went to a referrals house and all we knew was that he might
be divorced because his daughter lives in Taoyuan. But it turned out
that he was married and his wife was there and we asked her to join in
our lesson and she did and they set a baptismal date! It was so great.
We are now teaching 3 complete families! God has blessed us so much.
As far as my relationship with my companion, it's great and is
getting better and better. We are communicating better and i am
getting better at learning how to give him advice. I think we are
becoming a powerful tool in the lords hand. I feel like our area is
getting to become nearly as good as a normal area and better then
some, and to think that 4-5 weeks ago we had one investigator is
amazing, we are slowly but surely seeing this area grow into a fountain
of success unto the lord. I can testify it is the lord and not us doing
this work.
I feel like I am still learning so much from this experience, from
the extra hours of studying and opening this area. I am learning about
virtue and patience and faith a lot.
As far as language development, I passed Phase 3 with you. Yeah! I
am so happy. I am still just going through the cards and am focusing
on characters still. I felt when translating I had a few things I
wasn't able to translate directly but felt I got the message across at
least. Thanks for inviting me to translate.
Love you,
Elder Sabey
So spiritual thought for the week,
In the temple it talks about how they desire all to partake and then
give a simple invite, "arise." I think that is literally the invite
for everyone. The higher we rise the ore we can partake of. I hope to
continually rise. I know that is what god wants us all to do, it is
his desire. I love 2 Nephi 26:25. God will not invite anyone to depart
and go down, only to arise. Rise up over this worldly self and be born
again in Christ. A-men!
Well love you all and am excited to hear more from you.
Elder Sabey
Nimen zenma yang? This week was so incredible; I am so excited to tell
you about it. But first I will answer your questions.
How is your companion doing? He is awesome. I enjoy being with him and
helping him to overcome some of his fears. He is willing to do almost
anything I tell him to do. He is also being more and more open with
me. Are you enjoying Chinese? YES! I love it. I passed off phase
three this week, which is exciting. I still don't have incredible
Chinese like the other three senior companions in my district, but
they all are seriously geniuses. I feel fine about my Chinese. I just
need to keep learning, man man lai. What about the culture? The
culture is also great. The food is amazing especially during cooler
times of the year. Also the culture is great for missionary work. We
rarely if ever get yelled at. It makes me so happy. Their method of
rejecting you most the time is saying “thank you, thank you” tons of times while backing away. It is hilarious. The best part is probably the
Taiwanese focus on family. I love it. Almost all families love close
to each other including grandparents, brothers and sisters. If not the
child of the grandparent will take his family to visit his parents
weekly. It is so cool. But also the reason for the heartbreak we had
this week. Our golden investigator we found, Zhou jiemie went to visit
her mom in Gaoxiong, and was gone for a week. While there her family
had an intervention with her and she promised them she would never
pray to our god again, and would support the family beliefs. It was so
sad when she told us, and my heart literally felt like it plummeted
to the ground. But enough on that. Mom said "I want to hear about
successes this week." Which is perfect because we had a ton.
This week on Monday we went on exchanges and I was with Elder
Johnson, my companion in AnKang. We went visiting LA's addresses and
one I must have read wrong and went to 23 hao, when it was 2 hao 3rd floor
so we went to the wrong place and there was no one home so Elder
Johnson rang the doorbell below and they let us in without even asking
who we were. SO we went up and lo and behold there was a family. They
were so nice and let us in and we got to share a simple message with
them, and are meeting again with them tonight. So a total miracle.
Then on Friday we went on exchanges again and I was with Elder
Kattleman who lives with us and is also a first transfer missionary. We
went to an appointment at a "family mart" and our investigator wasn't
there on time, but there was a guy sitting alone inside of it so we
went and started sharing with him about the gospel, and while sharing
with him 2 Pilipino women walked in and one said "Elder, I am so
glad to see you." So I talked with them while my companion continued
sharing with the other guy. Then went on to explain she was a member,
and had been in Taiwan for a year and hadn't found the church yet and
really wanted to come. But turned out this Sunday she was meeting with
her sister and had not time. Also she is a lu4chi3, so next week we
will take her from the family mart to church. The other Pilipino is
a catholic and said she might come next week to so totally crazy, then
they left and almost immediately the actual investigator came in and I
taught him while my companion taught the other guy. Then as we left
the family mart we saw a lady knock a bike over and went to help her
pick it up and she turned out to be an extremely less active member who
was willing to come back (or so she said, but on Sunday she didn't
come, but we will see). Then we went and did family picture contacting
(our plan) and we got a set up for the next day which went through and
he is also a new investigator, It was so incredible. I don't know if I
have seen so many miracles in such a short period of time. I also
think it was no coincidence this all happened the day after we got the
sad news from Zhou Jiemei. We also had two less active families that
we have been working with come to church. That felt great and one of
our investigators shanged wan ke, and got the feeling that god said he
could choose if he was ready and he said he was so he will be having a
baptismal interview this week! Then last night after church we went to
a referrals house and all we knew was that he might be divorced because
his daughter lives in Taoyuan. But it turned out that he was married
and his wife was there and we asked her to join in our lesson and she
did and they set a baptismal date! It was so great. We are now
teaching 3 complete families! God has blessed us so much.
This is my letter to president
Hey President,
Thanks for such a great training. I love finding families, and it has
really helped me enjoy finding them even more. This week we found 2
full families and one mother who brought her 2 kids. It was so
amazing. Your training worked. I will attach a part of my letter to my
family about the miracles I saw.
This week on Monday we went on exchanges and I was with Elder
Johnson, my companion in AnKang. We went visiting LA's addresses and
one I must have read wrong and went to 23 hao, when it was 2 hao 3rd floor
so we went to the wrong place and there was no one home so elder
Johnson rang the doorbell below and they let us in without even asking
who we were. SO we went up and lo and behold there was a family. They
were so nice and let us in and we got to share a simple message with
them, and are meeting again with them tonight. So a total miracle.
Then on Friday we went on exchanges again and I was with Elder
Kattleman who live with us and is also a first transfer missionary. We
went to an appointment at a "family mart" and our investigator wasn't
there on time, but there was a guy sitting alone inside of it so we
went and started sharing with him about the gospel, and while sharing
with him 2 Filipino women walked in and one said "Elder, I am so glad
to see you." SO I talked with them while my companion continued
sharing with the other guy. Then went on to explain she was a member,
and had been in Taiwan for a year and hasn't found the church yet and
really wanted to come. But turned out this Sunday she was meeting with
her sister and had not time. Also She is a lu4chi3, so next week we
will take her from the family mart to church. The other Filipino is
a catholic and said she might come next week to so totally crazy, then
they left and almost immediately the actual investigator came in and I
taught him while my companion taught the other guy. Then as we left
the family mart we saw a lady knock a bike over and went to help her
pick it us and she turned out to be an extremely less active member who
was willing to come back (or so she said, but on Sunday she didn't
come, but we will see). Then we went and did family picture contacting
(our plan) and we got a set up for the next day which went through and
he is also a new investigator, It was so incredible. I don't know if i
have seen so many miracles in such a short period of time. I also
think it was no coincidence this all happened the day after we got the
sad news from Zhou Jiemei. We also had two of the three less active
families that we have been working came to church which felt great!
Especially because we only had one investigator to church. That one
investigator shanged wan ke, and got the feeling that god said he
could choose if he was ready and he said he was so he will be having a
baptismal interview this week! I am so excited. Then last night after
church we went to a referrals house and all we knew was that he might
be divorced because his daughter lives in Taoyuan. But it turned out
that he was married and his wife was there and we asked her to join in
our lesson and she did and they set a baptismal date! It was so great.
We are now teaching 3 complete families! God has blessed us so much.
As far as my relationship with my companion, it's great and is
getting better and better. We are communicating better and i am
getting better at learning how to give him advice. I think we are
becoming a powerful tool in the lords hand. I feel like our area is
getting to become nearly as good as a normal area and better then
some, and to think that 4-5 weeks ago we had one investigator is
amazing, we are slowly but surely seeing this area grow into a fountain
of success unto the lord. I can testify it is the lord and not us doing
this work.
I feel like I am still learning so much from this experience, from
the extra hours of studying and opening this area. I am learning about
virtue and patience and faith a lot.
As far as language development, I passed Phase 3 with you. Yeah! I
am so happy. I am still just going through the cards and am focusing
on characters still. I felt when translating I had a few things I
wasn't able to translate directly but felt I got the message across at
least. Thanks for inviting me to translate.
Love you,
Elder Sabey
So spiritual thought for the week,
In the temple it talks about how they desire all to partake and then
give a simple invite, "arise." I think that is literally the invite
for everyone. The higher we rise the ore we can partake of. I hope to
continually rise. I know that is what god wants us all to do, it is
his desire. I love 2 Nephi 26:25. God will not invite anyone to depart
and go down, only to arise. Rise up over this worldly self and be born
again in Christ. A-men!
Well love you all and am excited to hear more from you.
Elder Sabey
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