This week was good! I don't really
remember what happened this week, so this may be a short email. I'm
pretty much over my food poisoning incident from last week, though I'm
still pretty tired, so this week's been kind of rough in that regard. We
had Zone Conference on Friday, which consisted of President and Sister
Hawks, the assistants, and a couple of senior missionaries from the Asia
Area Office coming to speak, do training, etc etc. One of the senior
couples were pretty much the family history consultants for all of the
Asia area, and talked about using family history and temple work to help
people feel the spirit and have more interest in coming to/coming back
to church. I forget about family history a lot of the time, mainly
because it's never really worked so far in our finding tactics, but it
got us thinking more about how we can use the temple and family history
to help less actives come back. For example, we went to the Leung
family's house again this week and we taught them the plan of salvation
with a focus on eternal families. They've already been sealed in the
temple, and we talked a lot about the blessings of eternal families. In
the library at the church we found a whole box of that special issue of
the Liahona (Ensign) about temples right before we left, so we brought
it and gave it to them. It was cool to see them get so excited about the
temple again-- Brother Leung found a picture from the inside of a
temple in California that he's been to, and we could see the excitement
for the gospel coming back into his eyes. They will be reactivated yet!!
Our awesome investigator, Joe, goes back to Mainland
on Thursday. We're really sad! She's so awesome! I really hope she
calls the number we gave her to find the church in Beijing. She's so
funny. In every lesson she's progressively more and more been drawing
pictures of the things we say, and will draw things to explain concepts,
etc. Last time we explained the gospel of Jesus Christ (faith,
repentance, baptism, gift of the Holy Ghost, enduring to the end) using a
picture of stairs that a lot of missionaries like to use, and she was
going crazy with it, taking notes on how to repent, just writing and
drawing everything. It's so funny. I think that's how she processes what
we teach her. For example, Sister Lau also used an analogy about sins
being rocks you carry in a backpack to explain how the Atonement is like
us giving our rocks to Jesus to carry because He doesn't have any rocks
in His backpack, and without even thinking she starts drawing a
backpack with rocks inside of it. It was so funny. But hey, I like it
when our investigators take notes! I hope I remember to take a picture
with her before she leaves.
One of the less-actives we've been working with,
Winnie, is now on her second week in a row back at church! Yay! She's
doing so awesome!
Also, I heard some scary news today. Daniel is 5' 7"? What is going on with this world?
I also realized I'm hitting my 9-month mark this Saturday! Woah!
Where does the time go? But never fear, because I'll probably have an
extra 3 weeks on my mission b/c of the changing transfer cycles with the
million new missionaries, so it's not a true halfway point.
I'm glad to hear Grandma is thinking about me so
much! Grandma is so cute! Tell her I love her, and that when other
missionaries see the picture I have of me and her, they think she's the
cutest thing ever. They're always like "I want to meet your Grandma! She
looks awesome!" It's because she IS awesome, of course.
Be awesome everyone! Rely on the Spirit! Love you!
Sister Heaton
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