WEEK 51 RICHMOND: *Insert Hallelujah Chorus sfx*

 

HALLELUJAH

HALLELUJAH

HALLELUJAH 

(I'll let that keep playing in your head for a little bit)

(There we go)

So uhh, crazy drop, but ya boys stayin'!!! Some say 5th times a charm, or som!

I'm lowkey so hyped, this place is pretty much at this point, and our friends are just all so goated! Holy! It's just amazing!

Blessed fr

Wednesday was fun, DC and 5 guys. So ain't complaining much there. Always a good time. Met with our new friend 何先生 who I gave a pass-a-long card too, and it's the first miracle that he called back. He's such a chilla, bro glazes Elder Wengert's Chinese it's so funny . Then got another blessed chiropractic appointment. Thanks padre for raising me right o7! Taught Li about the Lord's covenant people, and really went into covenants. Love bro. Then edited a video for like 2 hours, holy it was so annoying, the computers are soooo slowwwww.. Met with our new member and their family. So fun. Had mini mlc, and did our daily scriptures.

Thursday was a finding day grind. Hit the streets, and met some cool people. Unfortunately they weren't Chinese so we had to send them afar, but no worries. We live in abundance  Had our two English classes which are always so fun. Such a cool service we get to do.

Friday was fun. Yuh Yuh. Tuahgt Alex and Lisa in the morning, holy both are so locked. Lisa is actually so cool. We had a sacrament lesson with her, and the importance of it. Watched a video and read a lil talk with her, BOOM, spirit literally taught her everything. She understood it sooo perfectly and came to sacrament on Sunday. We hope to put her on date this week. Taught 何先生 again. Had an in person lesson with Li Nan about temples, and it was actually so good. We hope to put her on date this week too :) 

Saturday morning we grinded the church invites, and hit some cheeky bench finding. It's actually so goated, you just sit there and talk to people. Sweet! Had a lesson with Li, and we went over the bap interview questions. It was so cool. His testimony has grown so much since the first time we met, and bro's faith is soooo strong and unbreakable rn. Just praying that his situation can finally resolve so bro can get dunked. Went on mini splits with the English missionaries, and went finding...super good time. Came back and taught Michael, and invited bro, he's gonna pick a date this week if he doesn't go back to China.

Sunday was so good! We met with Frank before church, and he's locked in. Church was amazing! We got so many of our friends there and it was an amazing service. So many God-given miracles walked in the doors that day! Met with Anne after church and got everything ready for our temple trip!! Finished the day off with some finding, contacts, and lessons. Yk, the missionary usual.

Monday, grinded weekly planning. This week is gonna be so solid. I'm hyped! Got Lil' Caesars once again. I think we keeping that place in business rn. We go way too much . Had our nightly lessons, and met this super super cool 阿姨 at the park. Hopefully we can get her to pull up to church .

It's actually super cool too! For Richmond zone, the past 6 months, the highest baptisms in a month we've had is 3. This week we had 6, and in total for the month of August we've had 9. It's just so cool and a testimony to me that God's work will be done. He loves all of us too much to not push forward this work. So many cool cool miracles this mission is seeing!

And finally today! Today was sooo blessed. Morning found out I'm staying and running it back with Elder Wengert. It's lock-in time  Then went to the temple with Anne and two of our members. It was so amazing. I love the temple so much. My testimony of the House of the Lord has grown so much out here. 10/10 would recommend. Played pickleball, and went out to sushi with our Turkish friend, Ibrahim. So fire . Love bro. He's been a day one English class bestie. Then had a lesson with Lotus and Armstrong! Did our daily scriptures studies, and went to English class.

Overall

Just an absolute goated week

During church this week, we had a high counselor come and speak. And these were the notes I took: 

(I have no idea if this even makes sense )

Sometimes we will be looking for the fruit. But the Lord is working on the flowers. We want the end result right away, but if that was the case, it would be gross, not ripe, and inedible. But the bees need to go to work, flower by flower. Let the Lord work on the flowers that the fruit might be plentiful and delicious.

We water, we fertilize, we give it sun. And that's it. Let the Lord do His work, as we do all we can do, He will give the increase.

So ya...

Let the bees cook 

This is why we do it 

Miracle apple  

WEEK 50 RICHMOND: The Cheekiest of Side Quests

Bro transfer board will be out by the next time ya'll hear from me...

Like holy moly (I make the best guacamole) ((pull up if you want some)) this transfer blipped. 

You think being twinkled is fast? Just come put my shoes on for 6 weeks. Then you'll know what fast means.

Which means, it's grind time baby!!! This past week was insanely joyful, so we just gotta keep up the effort and work. God is providing :)

Unfortunately, when you're best buds with the APs you hear lots and lots of things. And one of those things is I'm probably not gonna be here next week  But hey, God's plan. "I'll go where you need me to go" is a real statement.

To get started with our weekly drop, we'll head over to Wednesday. 

Super solid day. DC was supa fun as always. Learned a lesson once again - 麦 and 卫 are not allowed to cook pizzas anymore. Had a blessed lesson with Li. We just deep doctrining at this point. We building him up to become super member once he finally gets baptized. Finished the night off with a member meal at Felix and Lulu's house, they are so goated. Their whole family is here and it was a party. Read scriptures with some friends as well.

I  Richmond

Thursday was exchange day. I got to head back to White Rock with Elder Meyer. We got to teach English class, and holy I forgot how much I love that English class. The students are all so fun. Old Chinese people are just the funnest to hangout with! Taught a couple that's on bap date for this upcoming Sunday, they are locked in. So elect. So it'll be pretty hype for them

Friday morning we hit up some service. I think the 3 of us were the only people in the world to lift 10,000 paper bags in the span of an hour. Cheeky side quest. Came back, ate lunch with the 4 of us and unexchanged. We finally got an in-person lesson with li Nan and it was super good. She is lowkey the most elect non-elect person ever. In all ways she is sooo cool, she just won't come to church and we don't know why... Agency I guess... We had a chapel tour later with our new friend Jonny, bro is pretty goated. Had an English/Chinese language study with one of our members. Had a member meal with a goated family. 

Life is good, Life is good. 

Saturday. Doctor core day. We had lesson after lesson lined up. The first was with this guy who I gave a pass-a-long card to and bro actually called back. #neverhappens. So that was an epic miracle. Then Alex. Bro is just so elect. (insert AP exchange) so I had to solo the rest of the lessons...scary. Li, Dom, Michael, and I read scriptures with a few of our friends. Also got destroyed in pingpong. I gotta lock back in. Also hit a cheeky 10pm mpl. Crazy work

Sunday was so good. Church is just the best, and partaking of the sacrament is even better. Taught a fire first hour lesson, and it's just so cool. Our friends are so elect. Got Anne her temple recommend, so we going next week. 

Story of the week:

After church and lunch, we went finding at a park. We were walking, doing our thing, then see this group of 'teenagers' sitting at a table. So we walk towards them, say hi, and bro starts walking towards us. Says "ya'll got like 10 minutes?" and we were like, "we do now" (had to cancel a quick lil thing, but it's chill cus it was worth it). Bro says bet "ya'll wanna witness our wedding?"...

uhhh

First off, my impression of 'teenagers' was pretty off. 

Second, there was 3 of them, and an adult (who was a government person or something) and all dressed in normal clothes.

So we say "sick, let's do it" Sign some documents, and witnessed their wedding! Lets flippin' go! Congrats! Check it off the list! Missions be like.. It was fun, then started talking Chinese to them and they flipped out.

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Side story:

It is so funny how much we get glazed out here for speaking Chinese.

Shoutout gift of tongues.

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We tried to teach them about eternal marriage. But unfortunately no luck. But hey, there wasn't any "till death do you part" in the vows. So maybe that counts for something.

Then finished Sunday off with our Sunday things.

Monday was another day of grind. Soooooooooooooooooooooooooo much planning. Toooooooooooooooooo much planning. 

Met this super cool couple in the park, then this other lady pulled up because 2 white boys speaking Mandarin and Cantonese. Gave her a BoM, and she's gonna read it, then take it to China and give it to her mom. (Sadly she wouldn't give us her number). Also got the couple's number. So it was pretty epic. 

Got swindled into buying a $1 otter-pop by an 8 year old. 

Did a bap interview for the couple that I taught on exchanges. And scriptured it up. 

Today we spike balled it up! It's been too long since I've been that locked in on the game, so it was good. 

Shoutout New Port! We runnin' that back! 

Glory to God

Alma 27:18 

Now was not this exceeding joy? Behold, this is joy which none receiveth save it be the truly penitent and humble seeker of happiness.

Wanna be happy? Wanna have true joy?

We gotta be humble seekers of it. I love this verse so much. I love the imagery of being a "humble seeker" of happiness. 

I think this is one of the biggest lessons I've learned on my mission. I didn't realize how prideful a person I was until I came out here . Some things in life, you can put your head down and get to work. And you will be successful. You put all confidence in yourself. And that's what I would do for a lot of stuff. 

Then I got out here and realized that that doesn't work, and never will. The only time I can put my head down, is as I'm bowing my head to pray.

But everything else comes from trusting in the Lord. Putting my confidence and effort in Him. Everything I do, everything I have, and everything that happens, is all glory to God! Because of His love.

I've been humbled, and continue to get rid of my pride everyday. As I've done this, I can truly testify that "this is the joy"! This is the exceeding Joy that the atonement of Jesus Christ has to give!

Humility being the first step.

Post spike grub

#slumped

(Sorry bro, I got nothing else this week) 

WEEK 49 RICHMOND: Happiest of Happies

Not gonna lie...

This week was EPIC!!!

Lowkey probably one of the greatest weeks of my life. Everything that could go right, did go right.

God is so Good!!!!

I actually love it here so much. It's such a cheat code. Do you wanna find joy in life? Serve the Lord. You don't gotta be a missionary to do it. Just serve Him, and you will be blessed, you will be happy. It's just kinda how it works.

Starts with Wednesday. Had DC, always a blast. Lesson with Dom. It was alright. But like, broooo, just lock innnnnn. It would all be chilly if you did. He's such a cool guy, but bros words "I'm just lazy"  No worries, God will do His work. Then had one of the funnest lessons ever. It was with Li, and we talked about the Priesthood and priesthood organization. But we didn't just talk about them, we dove deep into them. We literally taught bro everything about the Priesthood and priesthood keys, and just everything about it . It was so fun. Bro was so confused at first, then we would dive deeper and deeper to try and explain haha. But in the end bro understood. Talked about apostasy and restoration and all the goodies. So it's all chilly. Had a bap interview for English elder's friend. Then joined CFM with Alex, and also taught bro the 2+10 commandments. And it's flippin epic, bro was buddhist, but said he'll follow the 10... sooo.... he's locked in  

Thursday was great, filmed some 基督的光 videos. Did mad libs for English class, pretty funny. Had a lesson with Michael, bro is just happy to be here, loves church, but uhh, hopefully can help bro keep commitments. Read scriptures with Li and Li Nan. Evening English class was a party. Then had Mr. Gu's bap interview. 成功!! So good!

Friday was a crazy (but crazy good ;)) day. Had an amazing PoS lesson with Lisa and it was so cool to take it all in. She was like, I've never learned about this, or even thought about it. She is just soooo cool. Then had a baptism for a members daughter. So good! Mr. Gu pulled up and cooked dinner for everyone, and it was actually so fuego . Bro always cooks.

Saturday

Saturday was just the most amazing day ever. If you read the emails, you'll remember a Huang Qing Fa. Or in others, my king ! Bro got is endowment!!!!! We got permission to go with him, and I've never more happy. Doing the whole thing with him was just so joyful. I couldn't get a smile off my face . He is just the most pure, wholesome, happy person ever! He then took us all out to lunch after and we got to celebrate his birthday with him! It was just amazing! Played ping pong for Saturday night 活动, got pretty cooked. Lowkey kinda rusty, so it's time to lock back in. 

Ohh wait...

Sunday was also just the most amazing day ever! It was actually the coolest  miracle. (I ain't saying this cus I care about the numbers) but we got 11 people to church! 11 Friends who are coming closer to Jesus Christ, and it was such a good church service!

God is actually sooo good! His work is just pushing forward!

All of the friends that came, are also super good and hopefully will all be able to progress. First hour we had a lesson with a members mom who just came to Canada, and she is so cool! Sacrament was amazing!

Quick reminder: Partaking of the sacrament can become and should be the most important part of our week. If we truly take the time to give that 10 minutes to Jesus, we will fill the most peace and love from Him :)

THEN GU'S BAPTISM!!!!! It was actually perfect. He is so amazing, and is just so cool! Bro is already serving the branch so much. Watching people make covenants with God makes me so grateful that I'm given this opportunity to serve. Because at the end of the day, I really don't do anything. I'm just here trying to do my best, and letting the Lord do His work through me. It's just so amazing that I get to even experience this, and that the Lord trusts me enough to do His work!

Had an amazing night, of lessons, mpm, and 陈妈妈. 

Then grinded cleaning.

Holy does this apartment look brand spankin' new. It's lowkey so nice.

Monday morning? Apartment check ups. No worries though, it was great . I'm master cleaner now! (Sorry Mom, I shoulda been better) ((thanks for always doing my dishes)). Grinded weekly planning. Helped brother Gu with some citizenship stuff. Had another bap interview for the White Rock elders. Excited for Sunday! 

Had a mango shake. 

Yippee!

Today was fire! We had zone p-day.. Played 9-square, spikeball, and basketball! The office senior missionaries pulled up and played, then also came in clutch and bought us all pizza. So blessed. It was so much fun!

I'm lowkey just so grateful. This mission has been so good! It's been difficult, but like, that don't matter. Cus hard is the only way to grow. It's been kinda nice, I've been humbled so much as I've been here. I've learned what really matters in life. I've grown my faith and testimony so much. And I've got to be apart of this great work of bringing Heavenly Fathers children home! 

Why is that? I think it's because of my striving to fulfill the two great commandments. Love God, and Love others. 

I'm so grateful I get to be apart of this labor of love. God truly is so good. I've learned to love people the way God loves them, to see people the way God sees them. It has brought me so much more joy than anything!

Blessed Up!

I'm just grateful man 

:)

This my bestie

My king 

Stiny Elders

No mercy