April 16, 2012
In answer to your question to when
I'll get transferred, I've been transferred already! To Oakland
again! I feel like I'm just doing a big circuit of the bay area
haha. It's kind of a bummer to be leaving Chinatown but I'm excited for
the new area. My companion is Elder Liu from Taiwan who's a really great
missionary and likes to use a bunch of Chinese idioms when he talks which is a
good learning opportunity for me haha. The work here has been going
pretty slow though lately. We've only got 1 investigator basically who is
preparing to be baptized on the 28th. But I have a lot of faith that we
can find and baptize a whole bunch more. Also, the weather here is wayyyy
nicer. I don't need to wear a jacket and sweaters all the time anymore!!!
We're actually in the Oakland North area which is really huge. We cover
Berkeley, Hercules, Richmond, Concord... basically a third of the
mission. It seems like the branch here is pretty weak. I hope we
can help strengthen it here.
We took a picture of my last Sunday
in Chinatown. It was pretty epic. We had a whole bunch of people
come to church. Pretty cool cause most of them are people that we
baptized there and the rest were basically investigators we had
found. I'll bring it back with me since I'll likely be too lazy to print
it out and mail it over at this point haha. Elder Brown and I did a lot
of finding this week since we didn't have a whole lot of investigators as most
of them were baptized last week. We passed out like a billion English
class flyers and had a whole bunch of new people show up to English class on
Saturday and then church on Sunday.
That is a pretty sweet article.
It really does pretty much get the gist of missionary work. The play is
coming to San Francisco in November I think... maybe we can find some time to
come back and see it!!! Although I don't know that we'll be able to get
tickets. Aunt Annette was lobbying to have us come back to the bay area
on our way to Taiwan and hang out for a day or two. Might be a pretty
good idea actually. I'm really excited to go to Taiwan actually!
Elder Liu's from TaiZhong. I asked him if he knew Joel and showed him a
picture. He didn't... But that's ok.
In any case, that's awesome news
about Jordan's mission call. I just looked at he mission boundary map on lds.org and it seems like it's right smack dab in the middle of the
state. That'll be pretty sweet for her.
Thanks for the package of nuts and
stuff mom! It was and is perfect! Ever since being companions with
Elder Brown, I haven't really eaten too much or possibly any junk food or
candy. It's definitely made a difference. My pants feel a lot
looser than they used to. I've definitely gotten a ton better at running
as well. I used to run like 2 miles and be beat but now I can run like 4
and still have energy to keep going. I think it's hard to tell as
companions with Elder Brown though since he's so fast and I don't ever seem to
be able to close the gap.
Anyhow, I guess that's about it this
week. I'm sure I'll have many exciting adventures about Oakland next
week. We cover west Oakland in the new area which is the most
"luan" part... although I'm not sure how many Chinese people there
are that would dare live there. Generally they stay away from places
populated with those of african descent.
Love you guys! Thanks for all
your love and support!
-Ian
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