Another week is already over time is
going faster and faster every week! I finished my first move call now so I'm not
the youngest on the island anymore! (haha) that is good. I probably still know the
least amount of Chinese though but who needs Chinese when you have a
smile like mine. (haha) Elder Gish got better for a couple days then got a cold
( ha) I have stayed healthy for the most part! I can feel my body trying to
fight it off though so hopefully I don't get sick! That is crazy and awesome
for Rhett! Congratulations!!!
We have to move because the
apartment rent thing is over so we are just moving down the street a little
bit. That's not a bad thing though, every morning we get to take a cold shower
because for some reason our shower won’t stay warm the whole time, it goes
really hot to really cold so we have put a dumbbell in there so while it is
cold we can work out and hopefully one day look like ky. ;) We are hopefully
moving the end of this week!
So this week was pretty slow again
and we lost a couple more investigators.... The guy from Texas stopped
answering our phone calls and when he does he doesn't show up to the lesson...
It is super frustrating but we have found some pretty cool people on the
streets so hopefully they work out. The old guy has a baptismal date for the 25th
of December. He and our only other investigator have goals for that day!
The week has been kinda of discouraging though and so to make ourselves feel
better we sometimes have to find things to do. The other day we got a parachute
army guy and took him up to the roof of our 15 story apartment and I bet you
can guess what we did. I’m sure the
people downstairs were wondering what we were doing going up and down in the elevator.
Pretty stupid but it was fun so I don't care what they thought. We were like
little kids at a hotel ;)
There is a bakery by our church so
we go there quite a bit and get treats and dinner and last time we went they
were talking to each other thinking we couldn't understand them. We could haha
and they were talking about me I didn't know exactly what they were saying but
when we left Elder Gish said they were saying see that’s the hot one it was
super funny. Today at lunch a bunch of
girls asked if they could get a picture with us! We are like super stars here because we are
white it is so cool! :)
Here is a story that I found during
my studies one day hope you like it! It makes you really appreciate what the
God has done for us!
There was once
a bridge which spanned a large river. During most of the day the bridge sat with
its length running up and down the river paralleled with the banks, allowing
ships to pass thru freely on both sides of the bridge. But at certain times
each day, a train would come along and the bridge would be turned sideways
across the river, allowing a train to cross it.
A switchman sat
in a small shack on one side of the river where he operated the controls to
turn the bridge and lock it into place as the train crossed. One evening as the
switchman was waiting for the last train of the day to come, he looked off into
the distance thru the dimming twilight and caught sight of the train lights. He
stepped to the control and waited until the train was within a prescribed
distance when he was to turn the bridge. He turned the bridge into position,
but, to his horror, he found the locking control did not work. If the bridge
was not securely in position it would wobble back and forth at the ends when
the train came onto it, causing the train to jump the track and go crashing
into the river. This would be a passenger train with many people aboard. He
left the bridge turned across the river, and hurried across the bridge to the
other side of the river where there was a lever switch he could hold to operate
the lock manually. He would have to hold the lever back firmly as the train
crossed. He could hear the rumble of the train now, and he took hold of the
lever and leaned backward to apply his weight to it, locking the bridge. He
kept applying the pressure to keep the mechanism locked. Many lives depended on
this man’s strength.
Then, coming
across the bridge from the direction of his control shack, he heard a sound
that made his blood run cold. “Daddy, where are you?” His four-year-old son was
crossing the bridge to look for him. His first impulse was to cry out to the
child, “Run! Run!” But the train was too close; the tiny legs would never make
it across the bridge in time. The man almost left his lever to run and snatch
up his son and carry him to safety. But he realized that he could not get back
to the lever. Either the people on the train or his little son must die. He
took a moment to make his decision.
The train sped
safely and swiftly on its way, and no one aboard was even aware of the tiny
broken body thrown mercilessly into the river by the onrushing train. Nor were
they aware of the pitiful figure of the sobbing man, still clinging tightly to
the locking lever long after the train had passed. They did not see him walking
home more slowly than he had ever walked: to tell his wife how their son had
brutally died.
Now if you
comprehend the emotions which went this man’s heart, you can begin to
understand the feelings of our Father in Heaven when He sacrificed His Son to
bridge the gap between us and eternal life. Can there be any wonder that He
caused the earth to tremble and the skies to darken when His Son died? How does
He feel when we speed along thru life without giving a thought to what was done
for us thru Jesus Christ?
Love you guys! Hope everything is going good sounds like the
weather is awesome there!! ;) haha
Love Elder Roberts
阮俊雄
ruan jun xiong
