June 5, 2016

Hello!

This was a pretty fun week. It has been raining a lot harder these last few days. It was raining rely hard this morning and we got soaked on the short bike ride over to the internet cafe. Rebecca (the investigator I was talking about last week) did set a baptismal goal with her youngest daughter, Paris, for 7-2. This week was  a little harder for her than last week, one of her old pastures and good friends passed away but we were able to meet with her a few times last week and she seems to be doing pretty good right now. We still haven't been able to meet with her older daughter but we talked to her and she said she could  come to church this week.

On Tuesday we got to go to zone conference and I finally got to meet the rest of the zone. It was  really fun meeting and I was able to get a lot from it. I think one of the best parts was  when the zone leaders scattered a bunch of tacks across the room and made an elder take of his shoes, blind folded him, and made his  companion guide him through all of the tacks. It was really funny to watch and a pretty good object lesson on Faith.

Chinese is still pretty difficult but I've started to really enjoy my language study time. I'm finally at the point where I can read most of the book of Mormon in all Chinese. There are about 3,000 characters that are used in the book of Mormon so there are still parts I cant read (especially the Isaiah chapters in 2nd Nephi) but it is fun to be able to read it without the romanized pinyin.

This week should be pretty great, hopefully we can find a few more people to set some baptism goals with! I hope you both have a great week!

Elder Wills

One of Mark's previous companions he saw on his temple trip.