8/15/2016
大家好!
I hope everyone had a good week! Thanks Mom, Maddy, and Tenley
for the package/letters!
This week was really good! Both Elder Yang and I are super
tired, but that just means that we've been working hard!
This week we went to go visit a referral from some sister
missionaries in Lake Elsinore (which is about a 45 minute drive from
Eastvale!). The family was really cool! We showed them the Hallelujah video and
they loved it! There are five people that live there, Young, Michelle, their
son Jayden, and Young's parents (Bro and Sis Wen). Michelle and Bro Wen are
Christians already. Young would go to church with them and their son Jayden loves
church too! They loved the video and we invited them to be baptized. I don't
think Brother Wen really understood what we were asking him to do, but before
we could help answer his questions, Young basically did our job for us! He told
Brother Wen that we were just asking them to learn more, and when they feel
that what we've shared is true that's when they would be baptized. But other
than that little confusion, the rest of the lesson went really well! They were
supposed to come to church on Sunday, but they didn't show up. We'll be going back
this week, though!
We got together with our zone this morning and played volleyball
at the stake center! It was a lot of fun. Normally we get together with the La
Sierra zone as well, but they had their temple trip this week, so their P-Day
is a different day.
On Thursday, we had a member of the stake presidency's son with
us all day. He just submitted his papers, so he wanted to spend a whole day
with the missionaries to see what it's like. Unfortunately, that day was pretty
slow for us! We knocked on so many doors, but nobody answered! Haha but I think
it was a good experience for him to see that missionary work has good days and
slow days. I'm not sure if he enjoyed it or not, but we are going to set up
another day for him to come with us when we will have a lot of set appointments!
Elder Yang is doing really well! He's really good at teaching
and helping answer people's questions. He LOVES to share scriptures with
people! His Book of Mormon is full of sticky notes, tabs, markings, etc. It's
exciting to see how excited he is for the work! We're working on overcoming his
nervousness of talking to people on the street, but that's normal! I was the
same way! Haha
Today I wanted to share the word for convert, which is 归信 (Guī xìn). The first character, 归, means to return, or to come back to. The second character, 信, means to have faith, to trust, or to believe. So when we talk
about our own personal conversion, it's not just a process or a checklist of
things we need to do. It's a change, a turning back to our Heavenly Father.
Putting our trust in Him by doing what He wants us to do. Reading His word
every day, praying to Him every day, and attending church meetings to
strengthen our relationship with Him. It's a really simple process of returning
back to our Heavenly Father. I also think that if it's our goal after this life
to return and stay with our
Heavenly Father, we must become converted while here on this earth. We must do
everything we can to show that we believe Him, that we trust Him, that we have
faith in Him. I know that He is waiting for us to return to Him. During this
life and in the life to come. As we turn towards our Heavenly Father and
Savior, we feel their love and peace in our lives. We have the strength to
overcome the trials that we face, the weakness we have. I am incredibly
grateful for my Savior's atonement. Without it, there would be no way for me to
improve, no way for me to have joy. I hope all of you will continue to work on
you personal conversion. Strengthen your relationship with your Father, and
become clean through His Son's atonement.
I love and miss you all!
Elder Warren
吴长老
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