February 1, 2010 - Letter

Hello my beautiful family,


This week was not the best but I am excited to start a new move with Elder Pack! Ya I get to stay here in tai bao...SO that means by the time I leave I will have been here for 6 months!!  I am so excited I get to stay because I love all the members here! 
 
Yesterday was really awesome, I got to go to Yong Kang and see all of my recent converts from guiren especially JAMES! He grew his hair out again, looks like the mafia pic I have.  But he's so awesome he is preparing to go to the temple this June!  Then I saw another big guy named Kevin that I taught and when I left to heng chun didn't know he got baptized, he was excited to see me!  As you can see I had a good week but just full of trials and disappointment!  Our investigator li ming wen that already passed his interview didn't come with us so he couldnt get baptized then we forgot to tell some of the members the baptism is cancelled so I had to get ma'd out by the elders quorom president!  Oh well we had 1 baptism this move but again zheng didn't come to church.

The Stake Conference was cool, President Hoer and Sister Hoer spoke in Chinese.  And the temple couple came. The wife's chinese is not good she needed a translator but her husbands was good he served in Taiwan.  After it all no gators came to church!!! ah sorry I can't write any more it feels like everything fell apart this week!  Then the hardest call I have ever had happened last wednesday.  After no English class! I called my recent convert zuo you hao and asked where he has been, he said he has been attending another christian church.  After we gave him a priesthood blessing he went to a random church in pu zi and they prayed upon him/for him and now the evil spirits are gone and he can sleep.  All the paranormal activity is gone!  It's called ling dong in Chinese! or ling tong as the President told me means communicate with evil spirits!  So I bore my testimony and told him the priesthood blessing healed him he said no this church did that speaks in toungues!  I was scared at that time cuz I told him I might move and would like 5 minutes of his time he said no you have had plenty of my time bye sun zhang lao.  I said bye I hope one day you find the correct path and he hung up!!! I started to cry and hit my desk yelling SATAN man!!! I HATE SATAN!!! Then I broke down in my room.  The spirit told me to call DAD! But I knew I couldn't turn to my earthly Dad, so I prayed to Heavenly Father for comfort and again it said call DAD but I knew it meant my mission father.  So I called President Hoer and in tears he comforted me saying I did nothing wrong and everyone has free agency!  He helped a lot but I am still so sad that someone can get baptized and know this church is true but because of a trial or hurt body turn back to the devil for help!!!  This experience is a huge turning point in my mission! I studied PMG today and it says dont feel like your time is wasted... do all you can do to help others come unto christ and then it's their choice.  Pres. Hoer related it to the vision of the tree of life.  Many people partook of the fruit then turned away!  Everyone that is reading this In The Name Of Jesus Christ I Testify that this church is true.  We already found the fruits of the gospel, there is no need to deny this and turn away and walk back in the darkness and be lost.  I hope zuo you hao comes back some day but for now he will study the bible and realize that his church he is investigating is wrong in the end and the only true path back to the father is through Jesus Christ our Savior! You can only do this in our church!  Kind of like Elder Holland said last conference to leave the church you have to crawl over, under, or around the book of mormon you can't go through it!!!!! I know this is true because brother zuo did exactly what Elder Holland talked about he denied the truthfulness of the book of mormon and stopped studying it to read the bible! I love the bible too but in order to study the bible and understand what the stink it is trying to say you have to read the book of mormon! I am so happy I am a missionary at this time in my life.  I know I am part of the fellowship of the unashamed. The die has been cast.  I have stepped over the line.  The decision has been made.  I am a disciple of Jesus Christ! My past is redeemed, my present makes sense and my future is secure! (President Eyrings quote!)

Again I leave my testimony with you all that this is the only true and living church on the face of this earth, in whom the Lord is well pleased!  In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen