SC March 5, 2009

Hey all!!!

Well, nothing big happened this week. It feels like another pretty normal week. although i am starting to get a good grasp of what missionary work is all about.

our big focus for this moves is working with the members. having members help us missionaries out is the best thing members can do. i never realized how to work with members until now. there are so many things that members can do for ivnestigators than what we can do. I think the example from members rubbing off on investigators is the biggest importance, and because they can have a friend. what president gordon b hinckley said is true. to stay active, recent converts need three things: a friend, a calling and nourished by the good word of god. so sad this week, one of our recent converts started telling us that chruch was restricting and he told us he wanted to go back to his old church. this happened after getting scolded by "the friend" at church that he had to wear a white shirt every sunday. but we knew that our recent convert had financial problems so it didnt matter, afterall, he was already wearing a collared shirt and tie. it made me so angry. i dont understand why the member did that. so right now, we're still trying to work with our RC, no success just yet.

but ishouldnt be telling you about sad thigns! it should be about happy things. after that incident though, heavenly father was trying to lift us up again by preparing people on the street for us to talk to. right after, we bumped into a less active, and him seeing us signified that he had to go the church that week. now i dont know if he did but it made us feel better from that event with our recent convert.

members are important in missionary work as well. one cannot work without the other. if it is just missinaries doing the work, as soon as somebody becomes baptized, we just got ourselves another less active. everybody needs to take part in this marvelous work! anything as small as saying hello to the invesigator at church on sunday or as far as helping the missionaries fellowship. if everybody can work together, the work can be carried out quicker and more effecitvely.

this is all the time i have this week and i will kepp you all updated next week!

-Elder Stanley Cheng