Week93

大家你好

This week was pretty great. We had our Christmas conference and some other things happened as well. 

Well to start off my golden is my companion Elder Morris again. He has been serving in the office for 10 months and just got out today. I feel like I'm training him again, it's nice to be with my old friend. Elder Zhang has been transferred to an English speaking area, he was really bummed out about it. But President wants him to learn some skills about running a ward that he wants Elder Zhang to take home with him so he can grow the church where he lives. Getting to know Elder Zhang has made me want to live in China and grow the church there. Since there are no full-time missionaries in China, the church grows solely on member missionary work. Every single member that has been baptized in China is a referral from family or friends. If we could get the church to grow like that in every ward, I believe the church would double in it's membership and activity. 

So a miracle happened this week. We got a new investigator name brother Lu. He is a friend of our recent converts, Mark Sun. So this is how he was found. Mark Sun was in our office parking lot on the way to a lesson that we were going to have with him. While in the parking lot, he saw someone familiar. It was a friend that he knew from back home. Mark Sun left home to Australia in August, and Brother Lu left in April. Neither of them knew where each other where going and hadn't had contact since. So Mark Sun just so happened to bump into him on the way to his lesson and brought him in and we taught both of them and invited them to church.Brother Lu, we found out he is a Christian from another church he joined in China. He was baptized into that church so we explained to him about Priesthood Authority. He seems to except it pretty well. We haven't set him on date yet。

Love Elder Westbrook