Date
March 23, 2020
Area
Companion
视频通话!
大家好!
Hellooo! Hope everyone had a great week! Love y'all, we're having a lot of fun serving the Lord and the Chinese community here in Boston!
So this week was our first full week in the apartment and we're doing really really good. We inherited all the Malden (an area here in Boston) Elder's people so our teaching pool just grew a lot! People are so willing to video call with us so we're teaching the same amount of lessons as before which is super awesome. We also had 9 people come to video call church which was great! The people we're teaching are so wonderful, I love them a lot! This week we were teaching this guy named Yang and we asked if he knows what the Holy Ghost is and he said "that's Joseph Smith right?" That was just really really funny but we helped explain so that was good to clear that one up hahah. Also we have a shared Zoom account for the Chinese ward and one of our friends hopped on to test the link while we were teaching someone else and it was so confusing and hilarious because he just looked so lost and couldn't figure out how to get out of the call. Video call lessons are definitely something else, people like to eat while we call and it's really funny. They're such a blessing though and I'm so grateful we're able to continue sharing this message of peace and happiness!
On Saturday, we had 4 lessons and in-between we had some extra time to try out some digital finding. We haven't had a ton of success with it because Chinese people use We Chat which currently don't have, buuuut something awesome happened. We prayed to start and I asked God "we know how important this is, please help us find one person who's prepared to receive this message." We hopped on Facebook for an hour, and for the first time in the entire week, we met someone who wanted to learn. He said "I'm half Christian," which I found out means he likes the Bible and the culture but doesn't go to church, so he's just part Christian hahah. After talking we set up an appointment for tonight at 8 to help him learn about scriptures in Chinese instead of English because they're pretty tough to read in a different language. Very nice man, and the Lord blessed us with that one person when we exercised faith!
Oh and one more thing, Elder Wu is going to Connecticut to the Chinese area there, so Elder Tsubaki, Elder Finklea, Elder Moncrief, and the Sisters, are in charge of all the Chinese missonary work in the Boston area! So we just took in 3 areas and it's about to get so so busy and so so fun! Well be teaching over 20 people and I'm so excited! Will miss Elder Wu dearly, but he's going to do so well in New Haven!
Besides that, we're having a good time and are trying our best to stay healthy and positive. Also, there's a very pretty tree outside our window that I've been watching blossom over the past week and it makes me happy. There's so much to be grateful for, and God will always give us more if we take time to seek him. If you're having a hard time right now, Christ is there, he's always there and will help you have peace.
Alma 5:38
"Behold, I say unto you, that the good shepherd doth call you; yea and in his own name doth he call you, which is the name of Christ"
God loves you, Elder Moncrief loves you!
拜拜
马长老
1) Video call lessons!
2) New simplified tag since not many people here read traditional characters
3)Cheese balls!
4) Chinese district -3 went home #拜拜
5) President Mavromatis giving us a training! Wonderful man, absolute legend
6) I made a little Chinese family history spread sheet for all our new members. We've made so many spreadsheets this week. So many