We are Family!!!!!!!
I love you all. If I didn't I
wouldn't get up at 5 to email you.
To answer questions
Question: Tell me about how you work and talk with your
companion:.
Answer: I am very honest with
him but always compliment his strengths. He is super unstable in
his self-confidence and communication skills (mostly eye contact), and I try
and help him. I think mostly by example.
Q:
What are his strengths and what becomes better because you two are
together?
A:
His Chinese is really quite good.
Twice this last week he told me a word I didn't know that he had
learned. He has a giant love for his mom, and is easily emotional, which has
helped me to lose some of the hardness I have and realize the importance of
love and the power it has on others. I also realized the importance of gaining
the trust of others because he trusts me he has much less of a problem talking
with me.
Q:
What about your investigators?
A:
My investigators are great. I have a few families I am teaching. We had
one come to church and next week will have another. There aren't any that are
progressing superfast or stand out to me other than one this week
that I wrote about in my letter to president and the Lu family. They are so
great and the dad has read through 2 Nephi 25 and really understands what he
reads and when we share something he read about he gets excited and says
something like, "Yeah, Nephi said that when he was building the
boat." He is great and the wife is humble. The boy is crazy active
and hard to teach.
You said "Someone you met
wrote me an email that vanished, just like the one you sent us 2 weeks
ago." It was the Liao family. Liao wen2 li4 or Henry Liao. Did they send
the picture of you on a mission? I will tell them to email you it again.
Here is my letter to
president--
President Day,
Thanks so much for your example. I love hearing about you from other people, everyone just loves you. I had a great week again. Su Shun Jie got baptized and he asked me to baptize him. I was honored. It was one of the most spiritual baptisms I have ever attended. I love that man and am so happy that I was able to help him come unto Christ. He was married to a member who was able to attend and they are both working hard for an eternal marriage. He meet with missionaries once in High school, and invited them back but they never came back when he was home. Then he meet his wife 10 years ago and periodically would meet with the missionaries so had been taught most everything multiple times. I am so glad I got to reap the reward of others’ hard work of his wife’s and many missionaries before me. This man is truly converted and committed to enduring to the end. I love him and learned much from him. He has already been a help in missionary work by peike-ing (accompanying with me.) I just am so happy I can't explain it.
Anyways miracles this week- When visiting a family we felt to visit, the Liao family, we found out that the dad was the branch president of Zhongli when my mom was there and the mom was her companion for a week. The mom went to the backroom and pulled out a picture of my mom while on her mission. I have never seen a picture of my mom on a mission. Looking at it was weird almost electrifying. Something in my soul stirred and gave me a huge desire to be a great missionary. I hope that I can make enough of a difference that when my son comes on a mission here the people I knew will remember me and be able to show him a picture of me chuaning jiao (proselyting). I also had a few temple tour miracles. We had one potential set up for a temple tour and in the temple tour he confessed that he had a dream where he was a member of the church and set a baptismal date and everything. I am so excited for him. His name is Chen Si Han. Talk about prepared. Also we took a Pilipino member who has been in Taiwan for a year and 4 months and never found our church, but then she met us and talked with us and came to church then we were able to take her to the temple to find out where the English ward meets. She said ever since she had been in Taiwan she has dreamed of going to the temple, and that day her dream came true. What a provledge to help others’ dreams come true. I am so happy right now!
As far as the relationship with my companion, it is going good. I love him, but feel he is super reliant on me and doesn't know what to do without me. He hates it if I am not right by him to support him, or take the lead if the contact goes bad. I feel like he has to learn how to contact if he was on his own but I also know that we are supposed to contact together. So I don't know what to do. I think the revelation I received is give him a lot more responsibility. I don't think he will like it, but it will be good for him. I am really trying hard to help him and he knows that. He just isn't developing as fast as I would like. He still has a hard time talking to people and hasn't finished lesson 1 in phase 1. Also he doesn't know what to say. (His Chinese is great, he learns a lot from on the street and his grammar is great. I think that learning from a book is hard for him though.) I think maybe I have been pulling too much and need to let him do more. Any advice?
I think I am still developing a lot as a missionary. I am learning the importance of balancing time wisely. I feel if I wanted I could find excuses to teach a lot and only have traveling time and no real time for finding. But by keeping lessons within 40 minutes and then not talking long after the lesson, we could have a lot more finding time so that is my goal. MY Chinese is coming. I feel if I took phase 3 now it would have gone a lot smoother.
Thanks again, love you,
Elder Sabey
Thanks so much for your example. I love hearing about you from other people, everyone just loves you. I had a great week again. Su Shun Jie got baptized and he asked me to baptize him. I was honored. It was one of the most spiritual baptisms I have ever attended. I love that man and am so happy that I was able to help him come unto Christ. He was married to a member who was able to attend and they are both working hard for an eternal marriage. He meet with missionaries once in High school, and invited them back but they never came back when he was home. Then he meet his wife 10 years ago and periodically would meet with the missionaries so had been taught most everything multiple times. I am so glad I got to reap the reward of others’ hard work of his wife’s and many missionaries before me. This man is truly converted and committed to enduring to the end. I love him and learned much from him. He has already been a help in missionary work by peike-ing (accompanying with me.) I just am so happy I can't explain it.
Anyways miracles this week- When visiting a family we felt to visit, the Liao family, we found out that the dad was the branch president of Zhongli when my mom was there and the mom was her companion for a week. The mom went to the backroom and pulled out a picture of my mom while on her mission. I have never seen a picture of my mom on a mission. Looking at it was weird almost electrifying. Something in my soul stirred and gave me a huge desire to be a great missionary. I hope that I can make enough of a difference that when my son comes on a mission here the people I knew will remember me and be able to show him a picture of me chuaning jiao (proselyting). I also had a few temple tour miracles. We had one potential set up for a temple tour and in the temple tour he confessed that he had a dream where he was a member of the church and set a baptismal date and everything. I am so excited for him. His name is Chen Si Han. Talk about prepared. Also we took a Pilipino member who has been in Taiwan for a year and 4 months and never found our church, but then she met us and talked with us and came to church then we were able to take her to the temple to find out where the English ward meets. She said ever since she had been in Taiwan she has dreamed of going to the temple, and that day her dream came true. What a provledge to help others’ dreams come true. I am so happy right now!
As far as the relationship with my companion, it is going good. I love him, but feel he is super reliant on me and doesn't know what to do without me. He hates it if I am not right by him to support him, or take the lead if the contact goes bad. I feel like he has to learn how to contact if he was on his own but I also know that we are supposed to contact together. So I don't know what to do. I think the revelation I received is give him a lot more responsibility. I don't think he will like it, but it will be good for him. I am really trying hard to help him and he knows that. He just isn't developing as fast as I would like. He still has a hard time talking to people and hasn't finished lesson 1 in phase 1. Also he doesn't know what to say. (His Chinese is great, he learns a lot from on the street and his grammar is great. I think that learning from a book is hard for him though.) I think maybe I have been pulling too much and need to let him do more. Any advice?
I think I am still developing a lot as a missionary. I am learning the importance of balancing time wisely. I feel if I wanted I could find excuses to teach a lot and only have traveling time and no real time for finding. But by keeping lessons within 40 minutes and then not talking long after the lesson, we could have a lot more finding time so that is my goal. MY Chinese is coming. I feel if I took phase 3 now it would have gone a lot smoother.
Thanks again, love you,
Elder Sabey
Spiritual thought for the
week: In the end of John it says that if all the things Christ did were written
the world couldn't hold them. I thought wow! That’s a lot, and I thought the
bible was big. I can't imagine what beautiful stories there would be. From how
he created the lillies of the field, to how he has helped me. I loved David’s
talk about recognizing the mercies of the Lord in our lives. I think John
was wrong in saying that the world couldn't hold it all, the world is his story
and if it were put into a book it wouldn't fit in this cosmos. His
atonement is everlasting and eternal, words can't describe. I love him so much.
What he has done for me is too great, I don't know if that would even fit in
this world.
I love you all so much.
Elder Sabey
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