5/30/2016
Hello
family, friends, and anyone who may be reading this!
Happy Memorial Day! Hope you all have a great holiday weekend!
Thanks Danielle for the package this week!
We got our car back this week! Woohoo! No more walking around for
us! We were all so relieved when we got a call from the AP's saying they were
on their way to drop off a car for us! We were very surprised when they showed
up with one of the newest cars in the mission! So we drove a 2016 Nissan Rogue
for a few days until our car was all fixed, ,and then we swapped back.
We had interview with President Mullen this week, which I always
enjoy. He asked us to find a scripture that will help us to go out and "seek
with faith" to find those that have been prepared to receive the gospel. I
was studying through some scriptures and came across Alma 13:24 which talks about how
right now there are angels preparing people to come unto Christ. Then I
remembered a story a little bit earlier in the book of Alma about a person who
was prepared by an angel to come unto the gospel (Amulek)! Alma was a very
great missionary and had just seen a lot of success in the city he was
visiting. Then he moves on and travels to another city where the people are
wicked and not willing to listen to what he has to say! But the scriptures say
that he worked diligently, prayed for the people, and was obedient to the
Lord's commandments. Then he was led to Amulek, who was told by an angel previously
that someone would be coming that was sent by God. I love the example Alma set
for us! As we are obedient, pray and rely on the Lord, and then work with all
diligence, we will see success in whatever endeavor we are undertaking.
We went and visited our investigator Harry this week! He was an
investigator at the college campus that we started teaching when they combined
our area with Elder Merriman's. He is on date for baptism on June 4th, and goes
back to China on June 11th. So we visited with him on Wednesday and he said that he
still wasn't 100% sure if he was ready to be baptized yet. Then we went to a
free lunch at the institute building on Thursday with him and set up
his baptism interview for Friday! If everything continues to go well, he'll be baptized this Saturday!
Today's Chinese lesson is on the word: 信心(xìn xīn) which means "faith".
The first character 信 (xìn) means to
believe, to trust, or true. The second character 心 (xīn) means heart,
center/core, feeling, or thinking. The scriptures teach us that faith is a hope
for true things that we cannot see, specifically in our Savior. The word for
faith in Chinese helps me understand a little more about the principle of
faith. First, we need to trust our Savior. We have to trust in His Atonement,
and then use it within our lives. Secondly, the concept that it must be rooted
in our hearts. If we just merely believe in something, then that's not going to
do enough for us. Faith requires sincerity and action! We have to follow
through on these beliefs and then we see the blessings and miracles in our
lives.
I love and miss all of you! Remember that God loves you and wants
you to be happy! Go out and make the best of today!
Love,
Elder Warren
吴长老
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