10/24/2016
大家好!
Well it's over now... Crazy how soon it happened. Thankfully
this was a really good last week!
Tuesday we spent basically the whole day at the mission office! We got a
new car for my last week! We've been rolling around in a 2017 Chevy Malibu for
the past few days and I have loved every minute of it! It comes with 4G LTE
Wifi! What car needs wifi? Better question, what missionary needs a car with
wifi?? We were stuck in the mission office all day because the had to
switch the TIWI's, the obnoxious little box that tracks your driving, into the
new cars. More importantly, we got to pick up Elder Willes from the mission
office on Tuesday! He flew in from the MTC Tuesday morning and got to
hang out in the office with us until around 3:00 pm! Poor kid!
He was exhausted! I'm sad that I only got to serve with him for a week because
he is an amazing missionary! He's got the fire and is excited to work. I'm
excited to see what happens for him during the next two years!
While we were at UCR this week, we found a lot of really amazing
people! I hope they will start to progress after I leave! On Friday, just
Elder Willes and I went over the the campus because we wanted to see if we
would have more success with just two people instead of three. It went really
well! We found this one kid named Patrick, who actually lives in Eastvale by
us! We had a pretty long conversation with him and Elder Willes just asks him
if we can say a prayer with him right in the middle of the college campus! It
went well and we sent the referral to the elders serving in the YSA ward! We
also went to go check out the huge botanical garden at UCR and ran into a group
of Chinese students over there! Unfortunately they go back to China this week,
but all the girls were incredibly impressed with our Chinese skills and wanted
to take about two billion pictures with us! Haha!
Sunday was a great last Sunday! I gave a talk in our Chinese sacrament
meeting. My topic was "What have I learned as a missionary." I wasn't
quite sure how to sum all that up into a ten minute talk, so I decided to share
the message the we share the most: The Restoration! The speakers before me were
"kind" enough to give me plenty of time to give my
talk (about 20 minutes) and thankfully I know the Restoration well enough in
Chinese to drag it out for a while!
Well since I will be able to talk to most of you tomorrow, I'll keep
this pretty short. I want to share my testimony that I know Jesus Christ is the
Son of God. He is our Savior and Redeemer. Through Him we can become clean
through repentance, obedience, and faithfully serving Him to the end. Then we
have the promise that He will give us eternal life, the greatest of all the
gifts of God. I can't express how grateful I am for the past two years and the
experiences I have had. God has helped me learn how to rely on Him and His Son.
I love and miss you all! See you soon :)
Elder Warren
吴长老
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