Miracles Follow

This past week has had a lot of good events happen! My companion and I were able to attend Elder Martin and Elder Illu's baptism at our Chapel. We had been preparing for their baptism too, that week we made a goal to invite every single investigator that we met with to come and see Brother Xie's baptism. Saturday rolled around and 2 of our investigators came and one brought his friend too! I think it was a really good experience for both of them. They both have a desire to get baptized and one should be in about 3 weeks!

The past few weeks we have been working with a Brother Zhang. He is Golden! He eats up everything we teach him. This past weeks miracle came when we shared with him the Word of Wisdom. He said that he had a problem with tea and coffee as he often drinks them both but he commited on the spot to quit. When he came to the baptism, he walked up to me and said, "Elder Bastian! I have quit drinking tea and coffee!" It was touching to see his enthusiasm to keep the commandments. I know its only been a few days since we shared it, but his desire to follow the Savior will lead him to a life full of faithfulness.

The other investigator that came to the Baptism doing great too. He absolutely loves the gospel and knows its all true. We are now just praying and waiting on his parents to soften their hearts and allow him to join the church. He is at Tai Da (The best college in Taiwan) and they fear his grades will drop if he comes to church.
It will be exciting to see Brother Zhang get baptized as this will be my first baptism since March! The hard work seems to be finally paying off!!!

This past week I also had the opportunity to go on exchanges with Elder Gerrard and Elder Beck who are in the zone. They both are doing great and has a pure desire to serve the Lord.
Elder Gerrard is just a solid missionary. His skills are all balanced and all great! The thing that stuck out to me the most was his desire to talk to everyone and share his testimony. He had a wonderful self quote that said something along the lines of, "you can never share too much testimony." Elder Beck is a ball of missionary fire as always. Its inspiring to be around this newer missionary. When we were on exchanges Friday i told him that we would have to cut our dinner time short to be able to make it to an appointment on time and he said, "Its ok, as long as we are preaching the gospel!" .
The both of them are doing great!

Elder Chatman and I are getting the hang of things around here. Its been a good few last weeks. We are focusing on taking care of the awesome investigators we have and find some good new ones! We have had to switch up a lot of the things that we had originally wanted or used to do since now we proselyte completely by foot because Elder Chatman's knee is injured and cant ride a bike. It limits us in some ways, but has truly opend doors in others. We have seen the guidance of the Lord as we rely on Him, and miracles follow.
We are learning a lot and I love it.
Hope everyone has a great week at home, work or school.

希望你们都有一个成功的礼拜！

Love you all!

Elder Bastian