We've been struggling to find new investigators these past few weeks. Our investigator Jack is afraid to be baptized because he joined the Communist Party and is scared that if he got baptized the government would do something to his family. He has been avoiding to meet us for the last little while. His date is now not very solid. We are trying to get some members to talk to him, so they can explain that there's nothing to be afraid of. We have plenty of members that have joined that are fine.
While we were visiting Brother Huang, a recent convert, we saw a book of his family history. We were so excited because we are going to the temple on Thursday. We got a family search account for him and he spent hours just putting them in the computer. We hope we can get them printed when we go and do baptisms.
Because we are so low on investigators, especially with Christmas and new year's, we have been working more closely with our members and inviting them to bring their friends to an activity. We have a stake activity coming up, so hopefully we can get some mebers to bring their friends.
In the past, the Sunnybank Branch has only baptized YSA, who come here just for school, so they aren't very stable. We now have Brother Huang, Mark Sun, and Jack(if he get's baptized), who will be permanent members here to take care of the branch. Elder Zhang and I have realized that if we really want to grow this branch, we can't spend that much time out street contacting. We have to have the members bring their friends. That's the only way we will grow and strengthen this branch. We hope and pray that our members will be inspired invite their friends to meet with us as we invite the members to do missionary work.
Love Elder Westbrook
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