Well.
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Guys this week was awesome! Kinda not sure why. Other than I'm moving the greatest work in the world forward.
Oh yah. That's pretty cool. That would make your week AWESOME! You should try it.
Do you realize that? Do you realize that the gathering of Israel is the most important work of this age? Cause if not, that's sad :( you should go listen to the talks of President Nelson. He'll help out.
So yah peeps. Let's move to the fun part! Dual wielding motorcycles! Errr... We actually can't ride motorcycles as missionaries. We will just go with bikes then! Probably easier tbh.
So on Monday we kinda just sat around. My companion didn't want to go out so I read scriptures with my family and then once I was bored I took another missionary living with us and we hit the streets.
I went to a Chinese instrument shop and that was DOPE! But I realized that the pipa is incredibly hard to play and also really expensive so that basically ruined all my dreams.
So then we went to a board game store and I bought some MTG cards in Chinese! So now I can play in Chinese which is pretty cool.
Then we did other stuff like shopping and inviting others to come unto Christ by helping them receive the Restored Gospel through faith in Jesus Christ and his atonement, repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end.
Good day!
Tuesday I learned more about eternal law which is like my new favorite thing. 10/10 would recommend to someone who has an extensive knowledge of the gospel and wants to go deeper.
Then I was reading in ISAIAH and I UNDERSTOOD SOMETHING and I literally started tearing up it was so good. If that's not improvement I don't know what is.
We took missionaries to the train station.
Had a lesson with our recent convert.
District council.
Invited others to come unto Christ by helping them receive the Restored Gospel through faith in Jesus Christ and his atonement, repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end.
Then I did abs and that sucked. What a great way to ruin a Wednesday morning. Learned more about the Apostasy.
We helped an old white guy try to learn Chinese and I now know what my MTC teachers felt trying to teach me and Elder Broderick. Big rips.
Then our lessons didn't show. Big sads.
But we laughed a lot and guess what! I was way happy! Weird how those things connect....
I also spent the day inviting others to come unto Christ by helping them receive the Restored Gospel though you're probably not reading this so yah, receiving the Holy Ghost and enduring to the end.
Thursday my bike tire popped. It's been like 3 months in the coming and I never did anything about it. Finally happened. And by the grace of God I was on the sidewalk when it happened.
Not racing down a hill after illegally hoping a fence with out bikes like last week. Thank goodness.
We also went to a members house for dinner and the husband showed up like 45 minutes late which was kinda awkward. But like it's okay cause he is the President of the American Embassy* in Taiwan.
I also spent the day inviting others to come unto Christ by helping them I hope you realize that this is an important thing for everyone not just missionaries and that's why I'm saying it and Enduring to the End.
Friday was a great day and I memorized the 10 commandments in English. Don't know why it took me that long. But I could never get the hand signals down for some reason. But now I do!
I had a super cool experience with prayer and that's all I'm gonna say about that.
But for some background we had gotten stood up in a lot of lessons so we just hit the streets and wanted to hit our goal of talking to 15 people which is something we haven't been able to do recently. We don't have a lot of time outside generally so it can be hard to hit a goal like that.
But we set out to do it. And as we did it we just kinda struggled. Ran into rude Americans. People who didn't want to talk to us. And we had a lil disagreement on how to contact people and make that work as a Companionship.
But by the end of our finding time we had no setups or success and I was just feeling way down and off. Not how I want to feel as a missionary, especially when I have been doing my job of INVITING people to come unto Christ.... And endure to the end. We're only supposed to invite and I did that and I wasn't happy.
So we went back to the office to do some other work. And I was sad. Prayed (see above) (you should pray today. Like kneel down and talk to God. Your Father. Maybe like even right now!) and then kept doing our work.
Then as we were walking out for the night we ran into the Temple President because he lives in the building that we work at.
And we visited for a while. And he just all the sudden starts thanking us for our work and proceeds to tell us his life story. And he goes on talking about how grateful he is for the missionaries and that they never gave up on him.
Guys he met with 60 missionaries in his conversion process! 60!!!! That is crazy!
And he's just telling us for 15 minutes about how his life has changed and that the gospel took him from a man addicted to smoking and drinking and coffee and tea and who spent all his nights out partying and leaving his wife and children at home and never coming home, to where he now is as the President of the Temple.
And I just wanted to cry. This was a miracle sent straight from God. Reminding me of my real purpose of my Mission. Inviting others to come unto Christ and Change! To improve! And to one day be perfected in him!
It was a miracle from God to just put him right in our way and to just express gratitude for missionaries.
It was a miracle from God and an answer to my prayers.
How amazing.
Well Saturday was also super special. Somehow every single thing I read in personal study, whether in the Bible or Book of Mormon, was all about humility and pride.
God is a little obvious sometime not gonna lie.
Then we got to go to the temple with some recent converts to do Baptisms for the Dead and that was amazing! I baptized 30 people that day. And it was just such an amazing feeling. I love the temple and I feel so connected with life while I am there. Just the chain of living and it goes through me. From my ancestors to my future posterity. And it is all in me. Pretty crazy.
But our recent converts had an amazing time! They were just wanting to cry and it was so cool to see a recent convert progress in this way! Because to be honest, the few people I've helped baptize have never been able to progress as these people are, and I am so grateful for the blessing I have to know these amazing sisters!
One of the RCs (recent converts) talked about how much peace and joy she had even though she had never done this before, but that she wasn't worried.
Another one told me after that the last name that she did was a really FAT spirit because she had a hard time getting out of the water! It was funny.
But yah they had a great time and we had a great time.
Then we meant with an Indian man who really believes in Yoga.
It was a lesson for sure.
Then on Sunday before church we had a family history workshop where I helped another one of our RCs put the names of her mother and her deceased daughter into family tree and explained to her that she now can be baptized for them in the temple.
She cried.
I didn't. At least not outwardly. It was a very touching experience though! I love family history and I can't wait to learn how to do it more! Yall should learn now though!
Then church was good even though we had no one come. That was sad. But a good day!
Then we had a gospel principles class with our new members and all the Filipinos and that was amazing! So great!
Then dinner with the Omdahls and a lot of meetings and reports and that was it!
What an amazing week! I just love inviting others to come unto Christ by helping them receive the Restored Gospel through faith in Jesus Christ and how atonement, repentance, baptism, receiving the Gift of the Holy Ghost and enduring to the End!
Hopefully you can do it too!
Love you!
Elder Baird.
*It's technically not an embassy because politics, but that is what it functions as.
Something about socks.
Today's something about socks comes from this week's Come Follow Me, because what could be better than that!
Nothing!
So in Doctrine Covenants section we have what I believe to be THE most tender exchange between the Lord and one of his servants. In verses 20-21 I see the parental role of the Lord expressed more fully than in any scripture. And when I read this I couldn't help but cry.
Just imagine! In your time of trial, having the voice of the Lord come to you and say "Behold, thou art Oliver" and in the next sentence say "Behold, I am Jesus Christ"
Just go and read it and try to feel the amazing love in this section! It is beautiful to read and really impacted me!
God loves us so much :)
And for that I am grateful
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