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Moon Cakes from Li Hang
Oh my, what a delicious week it's been!
Li Hang's experience at church was basically him reading from a Chinese Gospel Principles book wherever we told him to read. The amazing part is that he liked it and wants to come again.
So let me tell you what happens when your mission president catches wind of miracles on the verge of happening. They EXPLODE. President Irwin heard about Li Hang. And of course he decided to fish with whatever it was that he heard... He called up his buddy, the mission president of the London South mission, who informed him that they just so happened to have an incredible Chinese speaking missionary who was scheduled to fly home on Wednesday, but had extended for 3 more weeks because his mom wanted to come pick him up. Because they didn't know what to do with him for a few weeks, they stuck him in the office. Where there happens to be a lot of handy Skype equipment. I KNOW!
So this week we've had three SKYPE meetings with two Elders in the London South mission and Li Hang, all in Chinese. It's been absolutely incredible. In the first meeting we were finally able to give him a baptismal date, which he accepted right away. October 29th will be a party, for sure. He's already asking about how he can go on a mission and what he might do if he has to go back to China in a few years, where there is no church. He amazes me every time. It is really interesting here in the Czech Republic--I feel as though most people we teach really need specific missionaries to help them find interest in the Church. However, Li Hang could have learned and loved the gospel with any missionary, I'm convinced of it. And I feel so blessed to be able to help him get there. The gospel is SO cool!!
This transfer already has so much going for it. When I say this, I mean: a) Sister Bean is an amazing violinist. So we've decided to host a free violin concert as a finding tool--an opportunity for members and investigators to invite their friends to the church and to learn more about us without being nervous about it. What better place to do it than right in the heart of Europe? Sister Bean (as in green, string, and lima) is a little worried--in the past she's had trouble performing because she gets nervous. But I really know that the Lord will work with us to make it turn out. Pray for it to go well, this could be HUGE.
b) I nearly wet my pants laughing every day (not literally--no worries there). We just have so much fun together. c) the Lord is blessing us with SO MANY meetings and investigators, we've had to go on splits a few times to make it all work. d) Already had a great Zone conference. As a mission we're reading the Book of Mormon together before the end of the transfer with a focus on the atonement. Apparently Boyd K. Packer does this thing where he reads the Book of Mormon as many times as possible in 6 months focusing on one topic and then afterwards writes a one page summary of all that he learned. Cool huh? So we're taking a page from his book.
I could go on and on.
Quote of the week:
Perhaps the greatest discovery of my life, without question the greatest commitment, came when finally I had the confidence in God that I would loan or yield my agency to him--without compulsion or pressure, without any duress, as a single individual alone, by myself, no counterfeiting, nothing expected other than the privilege. In a sense, speaking figuratively, to take one's agency, that precious gift which the scriptures make plain as essential to life itself, and say, 'I will do as you direct,' is afterward to learn that in so doing you possess it all the more. --Boyd K. Packer
This life is just so wonderful.
S laskou,
Sestra Dean
Molls: Letter posted today. Dun dun dunnn. There's a little surprise in there that I hope will make you laugh.
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