Dear Family and Friends,
Wow! I love the second ward. I love being a district leader too. This week was a good week. Elder Boud is doing great. I also found out he and Jared know each other. Elder Boud went to Bingham. Elder Shirley and I only speak Chinese. I already feel like Elder Boud's Chinese is improving a lot. He is not afraid to talk to people. We are talking to everyone and already are seeing a lot of success. We are shooting for three baptisms this transfer. And I am committed 100% to it.
This morning I was reading the end of The Book of Mormon. Mormon laments over the destruction of his people. He says that they were fighting with all of their strength and energy but they were still losing because they would not repent and would not put their strength in the Lord. This truth is true with all of our daily battles in life. When we put our strength in the Lord we will still have some battles that we lose but ultimately we will win the war for our soul. If we put our strength in ourselves we will win some battles but ultimately we will lose the war for our soul. It comes back to pride and faith. Are we willing to submit to God and are we willing to trust God when the war is intense and we have lost some battles already? Yes.
This week we found two awesome new investigators. The first one was named C**W**. We met him Friday night. He was from BeiFang China. He was so interested in what we had to say that when we met him on the train he got off the train so that he could keep talking to us. He came to a baptism the next day and we were able to teach him after the baptism. That was way cool! It's been a while since I have taught anyone from Northern China so it was hard to understand at times, but overall I think it went okay :)
The second new investigator was Z**. We met her at China Town on Saturday night and she came to church the next day. We were really surprised at church when we found out she is only 14 years old. It sounds like there is a tough parental situation at home and her mom just lets her roam around Singapore all day.
The member work here seems stagnate except for in the YSA. We are working with the Ward Mission Leader, he is going to start setting up appointments for us to meet with at least one member family a day. Also I don't think anyone has tried to mine the goldmine here at all. We are going to meet with the Bishop Wednesday to go through the ward list and identify which less active families are the first on his list for us to find.
Love,
Elder Avery
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