Week83

Hello!

We had a good week. We set our new investigator Lyna on date. She was a miracle. She met Mormon missionaries about 10 years ago, went to church, received a Book of Mormon, but never got baptized because she lost contact some how with the missionaries. Elder Lin found her in the city and referred her to us. Within those 10 years she had joined another Christian church. At General Conference we felt impressed to give her a Book of Mormon. She was quite surprised; she didn't know that she was actually meeting with the Mormon church. She felt like it was Heavenly Father giving her another chance to learn the message. It had been 10 years since she last saw a Book of Mormon and now she has one again. She is on her way to getting a testimony of the Book of Mormon. 4 of our investigators came to General conference. We were excited for that. That's 100 % of our investigators at church. 75% of which are on date. I'm grateful for the people that Heavenly Father has placed in our path to help them receive this message. Our other investigator Gui Gui is moving in with one of our members so we have instant fellowship there! 

Love Elder Westbrook

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Week82

Hello everyone

Don't have much time this week.

Mark Sun is becoming more and more solid. He has been reading the Book of Mormon regularly, and praying and receiving answers to his prayers. At a family home evening he said he couldn't wait to bring his family over to enjoy this as a family. That made us super excited for him. His family will be moving to Australia in about 5 months. Hopefully we will be able to meet them.

We received a referral from the Elders in the city. She is from Taizhong in Taiwan. She lives really close to some of our relatives there. She has Christian beliefs and wants to come to church this Sunday so we showed her how to use the public transport to get to the chapel. She seems really spiritually in tune so we hope she can feel the spirit at church.

Love Elder Westbrook

There will be pictures next week

Week81

Hello All

Pretty good week this week. We had three baptisms this week in our zone. All the sisters baptized and none from the Elders... But that's ok.

It's transfers today, and turns out we will be in a quadpanionship. My current companion will be a travelling Zone Leader and my other companion Elder Toronto will be training a new missionary. And we will be having 6 missionaries in 1 flat with one shower. It will be fun! 

Mark Sun came to a baptism this week and we solidified his date for the 21st of October. He is having a hard time with work. He works late nights and does hard labor work. His goal is to get his Permanent residency so his family can live here. 

Xiao Lan decided that she doesn't want to get baptized, she feels the commandments are restrictive to her life. After many testimonies of members and missionaries, she still doesn't want to except the idea that the commandments actually give her more freedom. 

We are still working with Gui Gui and helping her develop her faith. She is still held up with Sabbath day and tithing. She's only new to all this so we will take it slow with her.

Love Elder Westbrook

Week 79

Hello Everyone!

It's been great this week. Gui Gui and Xiao Lan are progressing well. Gui Gui is having trouble with the commandments, especially Sabbath day and Tithing. She is quite a timid person and can get stressed easily, so we don't want to push her. She almost dropped her date on the 7th of October, but we testified that this will help her. She felt comforted afterwards which is great.

Xiao Lan also almost dropped her date. She doesn't feel like she believes in Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. We directed her to the Book of Mormon and committed her to start a serious study of it. She didn't know the purpose of the Book of Mormon until we described it as a Keystone. 

Right now, we are just waiting on them and praying for the spirit to aid them in their conversion. Hope all of you can pray for them as well. 

We have found a couple solid potentials that we will be meeting with soon. One of them has met with missionaries before and is willing to meet with us so we are excited for that.

Love, Elder Westbrook

Week 78

Hello

Pretty busy this week. Not much time to chat. Our investigators are progressing pretty well. They are reading the Book of Mormon everyday. So we will see what happens.

Love Elder Westbrook

Week77

Hello all!

This week was pretty great. There has been quite a lot going on in the Chinese Zone. One of the sister's investigators got baptized this week. He has a strong testimony of the Gospel. We were grateful that the service went well, considering it wasn't really organized. He bore a wonderful testimony about the Book of Mormon and Heavenly Father.  

Elder Zhang and I have been working hard to find new people to teach. We found a mother and daughter named Anna and Lily from China. They had only been here for 2 weeks when we found them. So far, they have only come to English class which is a great start! We also found David from China as well. He works at a restaurant 6.5 days of the week. It's lucky that his only half day off is right when English class starts so we will be seeing him there as well. 

We are teaching a lady named 晓岚 Xiao Lan, we call her Little Blue for fun. She has been meeting the missionaries for two years consistently, but won't get baptized. We got her to read the Book of Mormon everyday and invited her to come to church since both my companion and I were speaking. Xiao Lan brought her Book of Mormon and flipped to all the scriptures that we shared on the pulpit, it really touched both of us. We hope she can continue to strengthen her testimony through prayer and scripture study.

Its always Sunny in the Bank. 阳光银行

Love Elder Westbrook

Sister Ding's Birthday!!

Week76

Hello!

SunnyBank is great! Got to see some old friends and some new investigators. The Elders and Sisters here are great. They are hard working and good teachers.

This week we decided to do no carb diet just for fun. We chose the worst week to do it because members and investigators took us out to eat 4-5 times and all we could eat was meat and veggies. It was all good though, now we know how hard it will be to do it for a longer period. All we ate were meat, veggies, and fruit. 

Our teaching pool is quite small, but we have one or two that have potential to be baptized. In the mean time we will be working closely with them.

Elder Young has just gone home back to Orem. I still remember when he was my district leader when I first came out. 

Also got some pictures of when I was a golden