I accidentally drank some bad milk or ate some bad bananas
this morning...but despite the state of my head and stomach, My Spirit is
Soaring!!!
The highlight of our week was certainly J's Baptism!!!
It went great!!! Member support, he was all ready, his non-member Mom
came and supported him, the Bishop and J both bore great testimony, I showed
everyone "Because He Lives," in Chinese of course, and the Spirit was
there!!!
We had a little scare right before the baptism because our
water went down big time without anyone even touching the drain...but we got it
fixed and luke warm water at that point was perfect because the weather is
getting so hot now a days here in Taiwan. Chen Rong, a great young man
preparing for his own mission baptized J!!! Super great!!!
J himself said he wants to go on a mission also as we taught
him this week!!! That makes me so happy, I hope he is a recent convert
like Pierrick!!! (maybe he'll even serve in Africa!) Haha, he is so
great!!!
After J's Baptism, we got to give a priesthood blessing to a
former investigator, who, for whatever reason LOVES coming to church activities
but has no interest in getting baptized or believing...hmmm. But As Elder
Jiang blessed him, I felt lots of strength come from the words and the
Spirit. The next day he came to church, sat behind me, and as soon as our
Easter Sacrament was over...he said "Luo zhanglao (Elder Brown), I want to
take the lessons again." then "can we meet this Wednesday, and I'd
like to review the Sabbath day and the law of Tithing."
Ummm...YES! Who says that??? I'm very excited, because I know
the power of the spirit, and the word of God, worked on him to the point that
he realized he really does have a desire to come closer to Christ!!!
That really is our goal in life. No matter who we are,
no matter what we do, as Moroni states in Moroni 10:32: ...Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in
him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness; and if ye shall deny yourselves of
all ungodliness, and love God with all your might, mind and strength, then is
his grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ;
and if by the grace of God ye are perfect in Christ, ye can in nowise deny the
power of God.
All of us need this,
we just need to realize that our hearts have been longing for it much longer
than our minds have known!!! If you think you feel that desire, want
to learn more, or don't know what I'm talking about: email me your address and
current phone number. I can invite your missionaries to visit you!!! Drew.brown@myldsmail.net
Earlier that Saturday, I played Basketball with some new
members, young men, and investigators. It was a blast, and I think I
sweated out the last of my sickness. Better tell the Elder's quorum back
home to get ready...I play basketball like Jeremy Lin (LA Lakers - he's
Taiwanese[AND he's christian]) now!
Right before that b ball activity, we actually got invited
to eat Spring rolls with a family who was having a family reunion of
sorts!!! The Zhu family!!! They were pretty good, not as good as
Mom's cooking though!!! And the get together was cool to chat with the
family, three of whom came from Taipei and are not members! (the young
boy of one of those families played basketball with me afterwards!)
Anyways, they all loved me describing our family reunions!!!
This last week during the other times, Elder Jiang and I
taught Z and G who both are quitting smoking this week and set for baptism on
the 25th!!! Both are humble and doing well, they both need the blessings
of a healthy gospel life so bad!!! One emergency though, G has changed
his cell phone...and we can't get a hold of him right now...I'm sure he does
not mean this, cause he loves meeting with us, but we need to find him soon,
haha, Mission...Impossible!!! I think not!!! ;)
We have a good pool of like 20 people we've found recently
who are all able to meet and willing, but, Elder Jiang and I want to help all
of them feel the spirit and be willing to keep commitments now, and then also
help our zone do the same!!! We will!!!
Elder Jiang and I have an even broader focus group though,
and it's not just investigators: We prayed and fasted for inspiration as to how
we can help our Zone become powerful "tools in the hands of the
Lord." That is our my biggest desire right now.
How are we going to do it?? We've already been given
the answer, nothing needs to change drastically. Things just need to be
done, and they need to be done Right, and most importantly, with the
Spirit. We are going to exchange, train, practice, challenge, follow-up,
and inspire the socks off of the 中興Zone.
We trained the Zone on Thursday morning, instead of Tuesday,
haha because our stake sprayed bug poison in all of our chapels on Tuesday!
It went well though!!!
Also I am healthy I believe!!!
I have barely ever had milk on my mission, but Elder Jiang
really likes it, and we had some I drank to finish this morning, and then Elder
Jiang pointed out it was expired...ahhhhh...so I don't know if that was it or
not, but my stomach was not good this morning! Now I'm over the stomach,
the cold, and everything though, so I should be GOOD TO ROLL!!! Also,
pray for me -- the Taiwan heat is upon us, I was dripping sweat the last two
days...winter time always makes me forget how HOT Taiwan gets!!!
Haha, speaking of I DID get my own Easter Basket!!! I
LOVED IT, WE LOVED IT, and no worries...P hasn't seen the dangerous duck and
bunny-fighters ;)
I realized how much I love sixlets...太久沒吃了！
Nice hiding spot Mom!!!
Oui. Le Cote d'Ivoire Temple, SUPER!!!
Speaking of French, or Speaking French ;)
Kyle, do you know that Frere qui a dans la "Because He
Lives" video??? Je l'ai vu, et il est certainement Francais...looks
familiar too?!?!?!
YES, I'm so so so happy for Brother Brown!!!! :)
Thank you so much for your prayers, for P, everyone else,
and me!!! I will finish strong, it's time to turn my kick into top gear!!!
Wahooooooo!!!
Love Drew
P.S. Speaking of top gear, I really would love to get with
brother hunter and anyone else (trevor, you guys, corey...oh, he's a
missionary, huh?) and do a sweet bike race in the summer. I remembered
Bro Hunter talked to me about triathlons before or something...just thinking
how fast I could go on a roadbike now...
Love you all,
WAhooooooo!!!!
Love Drew
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