Hey Everyone!
Sorry that last email was an
absolute fluke.... don't worry hahaha
Awesome Awesome Awesome Week.
Everything is awesome with my new
companion hahaha, I don't even know where to begin, from the New companion, the
Baptismal Date, Zone Conference, Meeting Less Actives, All these amazing things
happened this week, and I don't even know where to begin!! Am so happy and so
grateful for about everything that is happening in my life right now. Life is
just 100%
Cool, since it’s more fun, I can
talk about all the fun stuff that Elder Hansen and I are doing together. So
first off. In Case you don't remember Elder Hansen, is literally my best friend
in the Mission, we started in the MTC together and we have literally felt every
emotion, from crying from sadness to crying from happiness/ laughter. So we are
super tight. you could say we are HOMIES! hahaha But cool, so first day he
comes into the area, we just make a ton of goals, about how we want this area
to be when we leave it. Also, some goals about how we want our bodies to be
when we are done with being each other’s companion. He wants to lose wait, and
I want to get swoll so hahaha weird start. We are deciding to do a juice
cleanse for this week, Where you only drink juice, no solid food except for
Conji. Now let me back this Idea up.... Due to a lot of people being sick,
President Lam, had suggested to stay away from some solid foods, and to clean
out your system, try doing this "Juice cleanse" So we are doing
it.... It should be exciting. Another thing we are doing. Because the
Records have been absolutely messy, something that we are doing is we are
recreating the area book, it should take a little bit of time, but we will be
able to know what is happening all the time!
Elder Hansen is seriously the
coolest person... So, pretty much everyone in the mission knows that we are
best friends hahaha so whenever we tell people we are companions they all are
just like "What is President lam Thinking!?" or like "The world
is ending" all jokingly of course, but a lot of people expect us just to
"Waan" (Play) and so we made it a goal to work this transfer harder
than ever, and it sounds good to me! Our ward absolutely loves us! We are just
scheduling tons of people and we are so excited to get started again!!
Anyways, so. This week we were able
to meet with one of our investigators, I'll send a picture next week, when we
get one. But his name is Stephen, We used to meet him once every two weeks if
that, and then he dropped off for a little bit, we didn't see him for like 3
weeks, due to work, or laziness, we weren't able to meet with him, Elder
Petersen and I met with Him once before He left, and then I was able to
schedule him again for another lesson with Elder Hansen, we gave him a
baptismal date of November 6! So Everyone Pray for him. The cool thing
with Stephen, is that he has struggled with Word of Wisdom and various other
problems, but he has been using the Nicotine patches to help him quit, however,
he still smoked a 2 or 3 cigarettes a day, However, when we met with him
w/Elder Hansen, he had forgotten the Patch, and he still didn't smoke that day,
when we asked him how he felt, he said "I Know that God loves me because
he has helped me so much with smoking." That lesson we continued to
encourage him, and now he is willing to meet up to two times a week, looking
forward to his baptismal date! He is powerful.
So this week, we had zone
conference, and it was centered all on the Atonement, in particular how we can
apply it to ourselves. It was full of note taking and writing down of feelings
and promptings, the spirit was there for sure. However, upon further study, and
discussion with Elder Hansen, we came upon a hymn with really fitting lyrics.
Rock Of Ages: "Not the labors of my
hands Can fill all thy laws demands; could my zeal no respite know. Could my
tears forever flow. All for sin could not atone, thou must save and thou
alone" The lyrics to this hymn show so well the need for a savior,
that it is only through him and nothing else that we can be saved or changed.
There's a quote in the Addiction Recovery Program that says something along the
lines of in any addiction recovery (Change) There is always a connection made
to the savior. I don't know how the real line is, but to me it seems so true
and so clear, that because of the savior, we are now able to put ourselves in a
situation to change.
I love you guys!
Thanks!
Love,
Elder Chen
We are fine.
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