I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and will have a happy new year too!
This past week went well here in Tucheng.
On Christmas Day, I had the opportunity to conduct a mission wide conference that President Day put on. It was a great conference, with trainings from the assistants and other zone leaders. I have to say though that probably the best part was...the Lunch! The president's wife and all of the other senior couple missionaries cooked for hours and prepared a wonderful christmas lunch that included turkey, mashed potatoes, costco rolls, and cookies! I have to say, I do miss american food a little bit. Its just so good!
After the conference our district leader wanted the district to do something special since it was chirstmas, so afterwards we all went to the city Ban Qiao which is a very high-end populated city that had a lot of Christmas displays/ activities going on. We went to this big courtyard that was there all lit up and we sang Christmas carols as a district while we took turns having one of us pass our flyers and inviting others to come to a different christmas activity that our ward was holding that friday. It was a lot of fun, many people were taking pictures of us Americans. The best part too was that on Friday, 2 people actually came to the church activity as a result of our efforts!
The miracle of the week was that our investigators that we recently set a baptismal date with was able to come to church for the first time on sunday. We also had a great lesson with him before on the plan of salvation. He has felt recently that his life has been extremely boring and did not have much direction lately, just work, go to school, eat and sleep. He says he cant really even remember one very "happy" memory in his life. It was sad to here him tell us his feelings. But as we taught him about the purpose of life and being able to return to Heavenly Fathers presence I really felt the spirit testify to the truthfulness of this message. I am so thankful for the knowledge that we have about God's plan for us. I feel that he know has a good desire to receive an answer to his prayers and feel of the happiness that we have felt from this gospel. We are excited for him.
We have a few other good investigators that we are excited to meet with this week too.
Well that about wraps it up for the main events of the week!
I hope everyone has a happy new year!
Love you all!
Elder Bastian
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