Dear family and friends,
This past week has been all over the place! It all started out
after we bought all our food last Monday. I decided to move back to my
old eating habits from my last area. They were more healthy. So I bought
a bunch of food that needs to be kept in the fridge and freezer. Elder
Hoopes did too. To our surprise on Tuesday morning, our fridge didn't
seem that cold. But we didn't think much of it. That night, we got home
and found that it was pretty warm inside. So we booked it to a store and
bought ice. But it was too late. So on Wednesday we had to go buy a new
fridge. Well, a used fridge. And the one we found was in the budget and
probably now the best fridge in the mission. Pretty sweet! But we had
to buy our food again.
Other than that, Tuesday was pretty great. We had our district
training meeting. Elder Hoopes presented a really good lesson on
dreaming BIG dreams and doing BIG things. It was really good and really
inspiring. We also got an update that we're crushing our lessons on the
street goal. I'm not sure if I ever mentioned, but our mission has set a
goal to talk to 100,000 people about the gospel this month. And so far,
we're really ahead! That night we had a gut feeling to bike down to our
secondary area and visit the Ke family. The Sisters have been working
with them, but the dad is busy at work, so he's behind on all the
lessons but comes to church with his family every week. So we're tag
teaming it with the sisters and teaching him. They were all so excited
to see us. They're a really golden family. It's just quite a bike ride
out to see them! We went so fast though. We made a goal to stay caught
up with this scooter. It. Was. Tough! But it had to be done to get to
this family!
Wednesday we had lunch with a good friend of the missionaries. He
owns a dog grooming place and personally owns 4 big dogs. One of them
being a Great Dane. Pretty cool. In the process of getting food, we ran
into a fridge store where we found our awesome fridge. English that
night was pretty interesting trying to whip out a bunch of American
words. It was a lot harder than I thought. And then my class decided
they wanted to learn about how our mission's leadership authority is
laid out. So I drew up everything from district leaders to the
president. Then I talked about exchanges. They all thought it was so
crazy. After English when we were about to head home, we had a guy come
up to us and say that he wants to meet with us and learn more. So we set
him up for the next day!
Thursday night we had a lot of really good lessons. We met with
David. Once again, it's so weird teaching in English. But he understands
very well. He wants to come to church and he wants to get baptized, but
his school schedule will not let him. It's all day on Sunday. So we
gotta find a way! Right after a lesson with him, we had a referral come
meet us. He lives in Taipei but is coming down here for college. He's
heard all the lessons and wants to get baptized! So we're planning on
that happening in the next few weeks. But he lives not quite in our
boundaries. So he's going to start meeting with some other Elders. He's
really excited though. Then right after him, Michael, the guy from the
night before, came and we talked with him. We also teach him in English.
He's really excited to learn more. He's a very humble guy that wants
his family to be strengthened more. And he said he wants to follow
Christ! And he very happily agreed to a baptismal goal!
Friday was a rough day. Not much happened. I don't wanna talk about
it... But Saturday we ate lunch with a really cool guy in our ward and
then he wanted to spend the afternoon with us. So he drove us down to
Qieding to meet the Ke family again. Then we went to find some less
active members. It was fun. We also met with Michael again that night
and he's becoming very golden!
Sunday started out pretty depressing when we were informed by a few
people that they couldn't make it to church. But then about 30 minutes
in, Kevin shows up! We haven't seen him in over a week because he's been
with his parents in Gaoxiong. So it was a huge happiness booster. He
had his baptismal interview after church and passed! We're just not sure
when the baptism will be because he's still trying to figure out where
he's going to live for school and his school starts on Saturday. But
there might be a chance that he'll be baptized on Sunday! Fingers
Crossed!
And that was my week. I'm exhausted. I go to bed exhausted. I wake
up exhausted. Ah the life of a missionary. I hit my 1/4 mark last week.
That was weird. Well I love you all! Thanks for all the love and
support! Beware of Pride. Blasted pride causes so many problems. Do your
best to love everyone around you!
Love, Elder Anthony Buckwalter
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