So, another week in
Canada. I still don't think there has been two days peaking above
freezing. At least, that is what it has felt like! Its a little
crazy here. Sometimes we have fun on the ice. This is Elder Liu's
first winter here as well, so that's wonderful! His first time in snow and
everything! So driving is a little different. Sometimes at night
he'll ask me where the lane lines are.... Not scary at all... But really,
he's pretty good. We had our investigator Hugh at church today! It
was great because he prays during Sacrament, and it must be really powerful for
him. We tried to show him the Restoration video this week, but it wasn't
working because his computer wouldn't let us play the Mandarin audio, so he
just listened in English. We found the videos on Youtube afterwards, but
I'm a little hesitant to point people to search on youtube or google.
There is a lot of garbage that can come up there. But I think he watched
the video again in Mandarin/Cantonese which was great.
Another huge step with Hugh was
something we didn't even know about. His parents came into town
this week, and he wasn't sure about going to church. But he showed up, and
after ward we learned his parents were OK with if not encouraging him to
attend. Which is a huge step for him, like it was really really
awesome. We also met with a Less Active Member, Helen this week, and she
taught us how to play Bridge. It seems pretty similar to Rook or Wizard,
for the most part. Elder Liu was still pretty lost, but we'll figure it
out. For now we are really just trying to build that relationship with
Helen and hopefully invite her back to church and her husband to
investigate. Helen says she is having issues with the cold, so we're trying
to work on that, but she and her husband are very smart, and very talented
people.
We also met with Joe this
week. When we talked with him in the park, he asked why are there so many
churches about Jesus, and we tried to discuss the Restoration, and
prayer. But he didn't really want to pray or anything... He did end
up taking the pamphlet though, which was good. Elder Liu says that trying
to check in with the people every day makes them feel pressured, but I am
planning on texting Joe today to see how it went. Hopefully he prayed,
even though it doesn't seem likely.
Other than that, things have
been pretty good around here. We had a great to time in English Class and
at the Ping Pong activity. One girl showed up to the Ping Pong activity
that was a provincial champion I think, either in China or Canada.... But
she was ridiculously good. She brought special Ping Pong shoes.... And
she destroyed anyone that tried to play against her. I will not claim to
have played her, but I saw almost everyone else being beaten by her. I
think she'll come back next week, so that will be pretty cool.
Anyway, that's the week. I hope everyone's doing
awesome!
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