Hello all,
This week was full of... experiences. It started with a really, really
great lesson with one of our investigators. It was more or less a "Do or Die"
lesson, We have been teaching him for 3 months now so we were really banking on
it being a "Do" lesson. He will be having his interview with the mission
president this Wednesday. Assuming that goes well he will be baptized this
Sunday. I am really excited for that it will be the first person I have taught
all the way through and then seen the baptism so I am really excited for
him!!!
We had our ward Thanksgiving activity this last Saturday. On Thursday we
had a lot of paperwork to get done that really needed to get done. However I
was moved upon by the Spirit and told to go and visit a Less Active family in
our ward and invite them to this activity. So I looked at the map and jotted
down their address. We took a way that I haven't been before and as we were
walking a man came around a corner visibly very very shaken and crying and I
guess he recognized the fact that we were "Priests" or some form of religious
clergy (which we are), and immediately began to pour out his soul to us. He
explained that he had cancer and showed us the lumps on his chest and legs. He
also explained that he was too week to get treatment and that the doctors told
him that he was going to have to die a long and very painful death. So he told
us that he was intent on killing himself that night. However he was also saying
that his mom said that if he kills himself that is not manly. While he was
explaining this a few people came up behind him and made motions to us that he
was very crazy. So we prayed with him and gave him our number and talked him out
of killing himself.
Then when we got to the building we were originally trying to get to I
realized that the house number... was not there and that I had not written it
down! I managed to recall the floor number but not the room. So I made up a room
number on the form to get in and when we got up to the floor the families door
was open and we were able to look inside and I was able to recognize the house I
had been to only once before. And they were home! So we were able to invite them
to the activity.
On a sweeter note in relation to that activity we had the responsibility
of making caramel. So we have spent the last few weeks trying and failing at
making it at home. Eventually we got a good method down and taught the whole
ward how to make caramel. So that is a good load of stress off of my back.
Now this next Thursday we have our missionary thanksgiving. Elder Taylor
and I have been assigned to make 5 cobblers for that activity and we have been
given HK$50 to do it. Which makes about $6 US. this is going to be a thoroughly
ghetto Thanksgiving.
Love,
Elder Walker
Thanksgiving Activity
Me in an alley
Me not in an alley
This is a cool shot. I don't think you can see it in this picture but you can see some buildings in mainland. (I was on exchange with elder Garcia and we were up in Sheung Shui)
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