WEEK 56 RICHMOND: It is Good 🥲

Well my friends,

After 6 months, 

It is finished.

I had the incredible opportunity to wake up to the most amazing news a person could get Monday morning.

For those of you who actually read this, you might've read about a friend named Li. 

I met him like my second week being here in Richmond, back in March. I've been a first-hand witness of his spiritual growth. Him giving up everything to follow God, to gaining a testimony about the restored gospel and the Book of Mormon. Literally seeing his personality, his actions, all completely change. Someone I will never forget, and who has changed me as well. Grown my faith and my testimony.

Unfortunately he has had some legal stuff that has prevented him from being baptized, nevertheless he has endured. Much fasting and prayers have gone to him from myself, as well as from the branch.

And it is done. Monday morning we received a picture from him, from his lawyer, saying that all charges are dropped and it is over!

So...

He's getting baptized on Saturday!!! 

The trial of both of our faiths has been tried and strengthened!

I can't describe the joy I feel, and just how amazing the gospel of Jesus Christ is! God's plan is truly perfect!

On a less high note...unfortunately Frank was not baptized on Saturday. There are a couple concerns that we are working through with him. But he's still strong and super excited for general conference. So keep him in your prayers, and I know it will all work out! 

This week was so good though!

Wednesday, we had a potluck after DC which was pretty fun. My statement still stands, black licorice is nasty. Cool miracle happened though. Got a little bummed throughout the day cus sometimes people are lowkey ops, haha. But a random member all the way from the complete opposite side of Canada appears, and was like 'yo, don't get discouraged' and I was like dang. Fair enough. But it was good!

Also shoutout Wells!

New status unlocked: Uncle!

Congrats Spenc and BrinBran

Thursday was epic! We had a lesson with Linda about the PoS and she was like, I've never heard or thought about this before. It's cool to teach a person about God's Plan. Cus it's a happy one indeed! Gave a referral and his wife a church tour. They ended up pulling up to church which was super cool! Met with our friend Lotus who is grinding the scriptures and marking them with questions. She's lowkey locked in, but we just need to turn her interest from pure educational to spiritual growth. 

On Friday, we said goodbye to Lisa. Taught her the final time before she leaves to China for like 10 months. But she said she will come back before I leave and be baptized... So hopefully it happens .  We met with Adair and he's just the goat! 

Then got to go on another epic side quest, where I had no companion and no Tiwi! It was glorious . Driving brand spankin' new cars is so much fun!

Then had a member meal, which was fire. Except the dog kept biting all of us...

But 中秋节快乐！！！

We have way to many moon cakes in our apartment rn .

Saturday we got to go on exchanges with the APs and it was so much fun! Learned a lot, and had a lot of fun. Win Winning.

Sunday was blessed, we had a bunch of friends come. And Li was the first one to bear his testimony, and bro gave a 6 minute testimony on the BoM and his conversion. It was flippin' epic! Nothing cooler than hearing a friend's testimony! It was so spirit filled!

Yesterday was just amazing! Woke up to a strange tattoo...wait...I mean up to an incredibly amazing text message :) We taught Frank in the morning which was super super good. Grinded weekly planning. Tried to give a member's two friends a chapel tour, but they just yapped the entire time. It was really funny.

I love Chinese ppl so much .

Finished off the night with some steak and mashed potatoes. It was fire! We got some really nice steak from a member, and it was a lot of fun to cook. Ya'll, cooking is fun! I'm getting quite good at it too. Shoutout Elder Soto for showing me the ropes .

But ya,

That's about it for this week!

Shoutout conference, I'm hyped for it! Y'all better prepare and watch it. It's epic. Literally get to 听神的声音

God is good!

Kind of going off of last week. About grace and the sacrament

God's

Riches

At 

Christ's

Expense

We are God's riches. And because of Jesus Christ, His "precious cargo" can come home. 

Monster, new car, no Tiwi? Call that happiness!

This is a funny story. Like a month ago I went on exchange with elder Henderson. And we met this guy, who unfortunately wasn't super interested in the gospel. But was super interested in painting us. So he took out pictures. And we lowkey thought nothing of it. Then out of the blue bro sends us this