Week 3: Australia

Sheng dan jie kuai le! (Merry Christmas!)

I can't believe Christmas is coming up so soon. On Christmas day, we are going to have a party with games, a fireside, food, and other activities. We have a few investigators coming. I will get to call my family. We are all excited.
This was a good week. We did a bunch of street contacting (as usual). We did the most street contacting in our district last week, and since we are in the city, and city missionaries street contact the most, I wouldn't be surprised if we did the most street contacting of any companionship in the mission for that week. But I'm not sure.
Because of the street contacting we did, we got some people to come to the church, gave them a church tour, and taught them "lesson zero" which is about God, Jesus Christ and prayer. We got quite a few numbers, and we have at least 5 investigators that are coming to the Christmas party.

Lesson zero is one of my favorite lessons, because I like hearing people pray for the first time. It is such a cool experience to see someone pray and communicate with God for the first time. Besides inviting the spirit, their prayers also help you to discern their needs.

All of the missionaries I have met here seem to be very obedient and diligent. We also did a couple of exchanges this week. Both times I made a new friend, and we learned things from each other.
The language is coming along slowly. I still do not know what is going on a lot of the time, but I can tell my Chinese is improving. I have this notebook of words I don't know, and I study it whenever I have some spare time waiting for the train, or while we are on the train.
The Australian Open (tennis) happens to start on a p-day, so we are going to try to go.

Out of time. Until next week.