Holler: Future Missionaries of the ROC - October 8th, 2011

Great news, ladies and gents!

Li Hang's baptism has been moved up--to this Saturday, the 15th of October--because he is just so prepared! One of the elders that have been teaching him, Elder Fong (from Malaysia, amazing teacher, speaks perfect English with a perfect American accent except for the fact that sometimes he calls a lesson a 'teach'--not sure why) will end his mission this Thursday. His mom will fly up to England that day to pick him up and tour around a little and THEN he will fly to Prague to baptize Li Hang and then confirm him in Chinese the next day! It's such a miracle.

Today we watched General Conference. We set up a private little room with Chinese for Li Hang. He came in a SUIT (he's never owned/wore one before in his life--finding the perfect suit has been a work in progress for a few weeks now), and he came with questions, to which he hoped to receive answers during conference. I have never been more amazed by an investigator. He looked like a little missionary today. And he's been inviting all sorts of people to activities and to church and giving away copies of the Book of Mormon. We discovered during one of our Skype sessions, that there is a place here in Prague where Christian Chinese gather together and worship (or something to that effect). Apparently it is huge--like, really huge. He claimed that hundreds of people were there. And there he began explaining to his friend about the Book of Mormon he wanted to give him. Someone official noticed and asked him to come up in front of everyone and explain to them all what the difference between that book and the book they use (the Bible) was. So he got up and shared his feelings about the Book of Mormon in front of hundreds of people, no big deal. How cool is that??

Sis Bean, Sis Anderson and I may be learning "I am a Child of God" in Chinese for the baptism. We'll see how that goes.

(By the way, Sis Anderson plays the piano, not the violin.)

We're staying really busy and really blessed. If I didn't wake up tireder each morning than I did the day before, I really think I could stay a missionary forever. :) Wasn't conference just wonderful? I've set a personal goal to get more into geneology next year. Thanks Elder Bednar (who has Czech ancestors--I see his last name on doors when I'm contacting all the time here).

One other quick miracle I almost forgot. We randomly met this American couple from DC in a small grocery store by the church. We found out that they know some American members in the branch because they all work at the American embassy together. Well, the American family invited us and them over for dinner when they learned about it (this is a family we challenged to pray from missionary experiences and who has really been praying hard--look how it works!) and now they are coming to conference tomorrow! Woo!

I love you all.

S laskou,

Sestra Dean