What a week of experiences! On Tuesday last week I had the opportunity to sing in the MTC choir at the devotional. Guess who showed up! it was Elder Anderson from the quorum of the Twelve Apostles; he is truly a man of God. It was sooo awesome to be able to sing for him the day. I loved his talk, it was simple yet profound. He talked about 9 quotes that today's Prophet President Monson often says. I love how each one was something that everyone could do that would bless their lives. You could feel the spirit that he had and feel the power of his testimony of the Son of God, Jesus Christ. He is our Savior, He loves us and whats us to return to Him. I know that through repentance and turning unto Christ we will all be able to live with Him and God the Eternal Father again some day.
We also had the opportunity to teach our investigator again today. Our investigators are a mix of language teachers here at the mtc, byu students, and return missionaries. They will take the role of an investigator and we will teach to that person. It is a great experience to teach this way. It helps us so much. You learn to love the investigator and really search for what his needs are and what we can share with him that will be able to help him, even if the investigator is just role playing. You really do learn to love them. We started teaching a new investigator this week who ended up being our language teacher! We were very suprised. She played the role of a college student who was searching to find out more about Jesus Christ. She is from Taiwan and is going to college and taking and English class. During the lesson she told us that her English name was "apple"! It made me smile, helped me to really become more personal with how i teach. It's hard to teach because of our broken Chinese, but I love it! you always walk out of the lesson feeling the Holy Ghost and just being happy. I know that the gospel of Jesus Chirst is true and that through it we will be able to return to our Heavenly Father with our families.
Sooo, big surprise of the week, on Saturday we found out that a General Authority would be coming on Tuesday to speak at the devotional and that he wanted to meet with all of the Chinese speaking missionaries before the devotional at 4:45. Speculation started to spread that we might be opening China for missionary work, but I kept quiet for the most part. Today we went to the meeting and as we waited for each person to enter the room my heart would start racing. Who is it going to be I thought? My guess was the it would be Elder Perkins, the Asia Area North President. Guess what... I was right! To most people's suprise, not really mine, he talked about how we can best teach the Chinese people. So no, China is not open for missionaries yet. But he said that the Gospel is spreading there.
China allows families to each other about the church and that most of the member go out of the country for school and things and while they are gone the hear about the gospel and are able to bring the news back to their families and help them. His message to us was the we need to best help the Chinese people learn and connect with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He said that for the Chinese people, the principle they connect most with is families. He said that as we teach about the importance of families and how the gospel can bless their lives and help them to recieve happiness in this life and the ability to live with their families after this life with Heavenly Father is power to them. Families are so important to the Chinese people and I think that is awesome. He focused his message later in the devotional for all the missionaries about how we can help investigators build faith in all the principles of the gospel. I loved his message!
China allows families to each other about the church and that most of the member go out of the country for school and things and while they are gone the hear about the gospel and are able to bring the news back to their families and help them. His message to us was the we need to best help the Chinese people learn and connect with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He said that for the Chinese people, the principle they connect most with is families. He said that as we teach about the importance of families and how the gospel can bless their lives and help them to recieve happiness in this life and the ability to live with their families after this life with Heavenly Father is power to them. Families are so important to the Chinese people and I think that is awesome. He focused his message later in the devotional for all the missionaries about how we can help investigators build faith in all the principles of the gospel. I loved his message!
Anyways, life is wonderful here! I am really loving it! My roommates are awesome. We get along very well. I actually had preparation day today and I played my roommate in chess. I had him going for a bit then I made a dumb mistake and he whooped me for it! Ha! It so great to be here and to be able to learn how we can best help the all the children of our Heavenly Father.
Until next week!
Love,
Love,
Elder Bastian
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