Week 14: Subway Station Scare

Well this was a good week. We set a baptismal date with Bonnie. She will probably get baptized in a couple of weeks. She's a very good investigator. This is the first investigator that I have actually taught All the lessons too. I get transferred so much, that the other investigators I had, I never taught all the lessons too.

This week I got to do first exchanges. The first one was with the Zone Leader Elder Shum. We street contacted in the city and it was super super crowded and I can't say I particularly enjoyed that. He said our goal was to get someone to come back to the church with us, and I was able to do that. We taught her the first lesson. I don't think she was super interested though. After the exchanges we do a review, and Elder Shum gave me a lot of good advice on becoming a better missionary.

I also got to do splits with my old MTC companion Elder Padilla. It was super good. He is super good at street contacting. He got about half a page of phone numbers.

Something interesting happened a couple of days ago in the subway station. A lady decided to jump off the platform onto the tracks when a train was due to come in a couple of minutes. There were no workers around. Someone pressed the emergency button. We went to the front of the station to wave at the train. I felt wind coming out of the tunnel at the speed it usually comes out, so I was a little scared. I also remembered that awhile back the trains were delayed because someone got hit. Anyway, the train came super slowly, and stopped in the tunnel. Then the lady started walking into the other end of the tunnel. The train honked its horn super loud, and there were other trains backed up in the tunnel that were honking too. Eventually a worker got the lady out.

Fun fact: the subways here are not computer operated. The conductor does basically everything. Sometimes they miss the platform, and have to roll up while the doors are open. On the older trains, you can also open the doors when the train is moving if you push hard, so we have seen some people do stupid things while street contacting in the train station.

My companion and I like to play street basketball on P-days in the city. At first I was hesitant, but it's a ton of fun. We play with random people. A lot of them are students. The courts are super nice too and they're right in the city, on the campus of this university. Here is a picture

This week we are having a BBQ for the students who left for China and are coming back for school. That is going to be a pretty big event, and we are inviting a lot of our investigators.