October 30, 2011

Well today is Halloween, last weekend they had a Halloween party and little kids (like probably close to thousands) walked the big downtown streets of tian mu going from shop to shop. It's more like a city holiday then anything else. there were tons of families out and all had cute little Asian children dressed up as something crazy or weird. It reminded me of how much I love America and cannot wait till I can see the CLEAN beautiful streets, hills, mountains and such. I miss wonderful white snow. :/ Alas life is life and moving on is the only option.   This past week I got to baptize Xu wei teng. It was so cool coming out of the water and seeing his happy face and getting a wet hug im the water. He is a good guy and loves his wife very much. I am so grateful for his example, he just makes me happy. Yesterday I got to confirm him in church with the a few members of the ward. very cool. I am so glad God gave us the gifts and blessings he did.   Last week me and my last comp had to use that old ladies bike for a while... well lets just say God really doesn't like his missionaries using members bikes. She needed to bike back monday but my old comp took the bike lock keys to his new area so we couldn't unlock it. we got the keys wednesday (by now our mmber friend was not happy:( ) and thursday planned to take it to her. Well in the morning during studies she call SOO many times. (we can't answer the phone during studies) I was on exchanges with the Zone leader and he was a little frusterated with the lady calling so much. Well anyway ended up we didn't get it to her until let that night and I think she is forever, never going to allow missionaries to use her bike. This week was start of new transfer. I'm still in tian mu. It's really hard. I could use prayers. I love tian mu and am glad I have the chance to stay and work with my old investigators. So I'm not sure how to best describe how beautiful tian mu is. Every week we get to go wen hua which is a school far up in the mountains! when we are there we look down and ... wow. beautiful!!     Love chris