Hai!
Had a pretty average week last week. Some good things that are happening are that our recent convert, brother Chen, came back from his trip in southern California and we're now working with him to get a family home evening type activity set up for our Chinese group which we are also coordinating with the Bishop to get in place. I really hope setting up these small family home evening groups will improve unity and fellowship within our groups and help everyone to become more active in the church. There are only about 15 or 16 members in the Chinese group. Although it seems like on a good Sunday we'll have at most about 10 and some of them leave after the Sacrament for work, so there are some struggles...
I went on exchanges with one of the assistants, Elder Webster on Saturday in Oakland again which was a good experience. We had a pretty funny experience where we went street contacting for about 30 minutes and get yelled at by like 3 different people for things like racism against african americans and the like and got rejected by basically everyone we talked to. So we decided perhaps that wasn't the best place to go looking for new investigators haha since half of them were indie hipsters (michelle's friends :D) and the other half were like belligerent older men.
Unfortunately, we lost a couple baptismal dates this week since one of our investigators moved to San Francisco and the other 2 aren't answering our phone calls (brother Zhao and Wang Kun...). However we've been finding quite a few new investigators, especially up at Cal State which I'm fan of since young college students seem to be my forte and Elder Lee and I are going to focus on being more bold in inviting our investigators to set a date and then set plans with them to solidify their resolve and turn it into action.
Our recent converts are doing pretty well too. We accompanied one of our recent converts, brother Zheng, to meet with the bishop yesterday to do a preliminary interview about the Aaronic Priesthood and he's very willing to accept it and serve more in the Ward which is great. I just hope we can find more prepared people like him.
Also, remember Ying Meng? Our super diamond investigator in San Francisco? Well, we didn't attend the funeral of Brother Kwok on Saturday since we had English class but Elder Wu and his companion did and said that she was there playing the piano for the service! So cool! So she's basically still really active and awesome which is great! Especially in a Branch as unlively and scattered as San Francisco's is. Pretty good to hear. Although I wish I could've seen her... oh well. I'll probably be back there at some point anyways haha.
That's great to hear about Uncle Eric's surgery. Too bad his mouth is gonna be a little drier from now on... but that's a pretty small price to pay considering how ridiculously large that tumor was. Did they give it to him afterwards? That'd be pretty gross I guess...
Anyways, love you guys! Thanks for all your support and emairrsss!!! Have a wonderful week!
-Ian
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