Written by Elder Joshua Avery, serving in the Singapore Mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, speaking Mandarin Chinese.
Dear Family and Friends,
We were blessed
with some great success. We were able to find a lot of people, and we
have a couple investigators that we feel could be baptized this transfer
if they decide to. I have been increasing my faith by taking time to
try to ponder the scriptures more. I have also been receiving a lot of
cool revelation as I study their opposites. One scripture that I flipped
around was Moroni 7:42. Originally it reads "Wherefore, if a man have
faith he must needs have hope; for without faith there cannot be any
hope." after you view its opposite it becomes "Wherefore, if a man have
doubt he must needs have hopelessness; for without doubt there cannot
be any hopelessness." It is interesting the different insights you can
get from studying the scriptures this way.
We
had a super awesome miracle this week. After English class we were
teaching some of our investigators who attend the English Class. There
was another student who was kind of lingering around so we pulled him
into the lesson and taught him also and he loved it. It's cool how
sometimes God brings people to you and how he prepares them. When he
first came to English class he was not ready but after further exposure
to the church for a few weeks he was willing to open up and learn.
Our
member work is improving we ended up being able to teach a member for
the first time in a long time here and she was way excited and is
allowing us to bring an investigator to teach in her house next week. We
also got a referral from a member in Sitiawan, and the referral is
someone that I had met and played bowling with in Sitiawan back in
February who now lives in Singapore and lives right by our house! Crazy!
Maybe they weren't ready then but I hope they are ready now. We are
meeting them on Thursday and are way excited :)
Love,
Elder Avery
