Hello all, welcome to another week in the life. Good things are happening in Irvine, there's no doubt. There are two baptisms lined up for this weekend in the Yale Branch, so we're all pumped for the events. Our branch mission leader set a goal of 30 baptisms for the branch this year, so fortunately we've got six elders and the Lord all combined to get the work done. Of course, I've also heard that two people can do anything, as long as one of those persons is God.
Another thing I've learned this past week is that my learning Chinese is improving my Jackie Chan abilities. I think I am safe to say that at least two things that happened this past week are able to prove that: 1) I caught a living fly with chopsticks and 2) I arm wrestled the endurance weight lifter champion of the world, Dragan. I am not making this up. Google Dragan if you want (it's pronounced Dragon. Like the mythical creature). Okay, so the fly was placated by some strawberries on the table and Dragan almost tore my arm off, but still, I feel like those two things merit some kind of attention.
A disadvantage that learning Chinese has brought is that I have no capabilities to speak any other language other than English. We tracted into this Vietnamese lady that only spoke French and Vietnamese (Vietnam was occupied by the French), and so I was like, "parlez-vous francais" and she looked all excited and was like, "Oui, oui" and then I was like "太棒了！我也會講法文！" and then I had to pause, because everything French flooded out of my brain and was replaced with Chinese. So I said "merci beaucoup" and then we got out of there. So, that dashed any hopes of me becoming tri-lingual.
One super cool thing happened this week. We were tracting/street contacting in an apartment complex that we've visited a few times before, and we finished visiting all the potentials we knew in the area. So then, we were clueless as to what to do for about a second, and then the thought came to mind that number 73 in the complex had a Chinese thing on the door last time (why did my brain not have these capabilities when I took calculus??), so we headed in that direction. And then we met two Chinese girls taking out the garbage, and after starting a conversation, one of them was super interested and they both agreed to come to church the next day! Awesome, right? I think I have said this before, but the Holy Ghost absolutely can bring all things to our remembrance.
Well, the work is awesome, I love it, it's true. I hope you all have a great week.
- Elder Winters
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