Monday, August 18, 2008

Miracles through the Spirit

Our district goes to the TRC every Saturday morning to teach volunteers the lessons in Chinese. These volunteers are most of the time members and want to help. Well, my teach Brother Hodges found some Taiwanese people that weren't members and played basketball with a couple teenage boys with a bunch of other Chinese MTC teachers. Well, Brother Hodges brought these teenagers to the TRC on Saturday.

When we found out we were going to teach these real investigators our companionship got really excited and nervous and must have said about 3 prayers. Well, we taught a 35 minute lesson and it went great! We taught about how God is our loving Heavenly Father and how we can pray to him. He is the creator (Mosiah 4:9) and loves his children. We taught them about receiving answers and feeling the Holy Ghost. Well, there was an aunt and two cousins from Taiwan. The 2 boys were both 17, Xu dixiong and Lin dixiong. The spirit was soo strong as we bore testimony of our loving Heavenly Father. We helped him recognize what he was feeling. He felt nervous at the beginning but then felt comfortable and we told him that this was the Spirit.

Okay, well, thats not even the best part. We heard later that Lin dixiong was taught by 2 more Elders in our zone. They taught him about prophets and Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. The missionaries asked him what he knew about prophets and he told him that he thought they were men called of God that received revelation to teach the Church because God couldn't come down to earth. Amazed at his knowledge, the missionaries asked who had taught him and he said that "The sisters taught me this morning." What!?! We didn't even say the work prophets and we didn't even mention about what a prophet is. The Spirit was teaching him!

Wow, what a wonderful opportunity to be an instrument in the Lord's hands. The Spirit is the real teacher, the missionaries are just the ones trying to bring that Spirit. Its so awesome! Missionary work is great!!

Thank you for all the support. Love you all!

Monday, August 11, 2008

Identity theft

Things have been going good in here, same old thing. There was one day that I accidently took the wrong name tag from the desk in the morning, and it wasn't until about 3 hours later that we noticed that I was Sister Son for the day. I happened to see Tim's old roommate, Ryan Beauchamp (something like that) in the MTC cafeteria, and he said "Hi Sister Chang!" but then looked at my name tag and got very confused. It was very funny, but don't worry, I let him know that I was really Sister Chang.

New missionaries came in, 24 of them! 4 of them are sisters. Its exciting to see so much enthusiasm come in.

ps. Funny story about Chinese that I'm not sure if I've told you yet. We were teaching a lesson a couple weeks ago in Chinese with another companionship. I asked the "investigator" what kind of work he did, he said he was a butcher and I asked him what type of meat was his favorite. I told him that "wo hen xihuan chi nu rou" instead of "niu rou" which translates to " i really like to eat women flesh" instead of beef. Our teacher found it very funny.