Ok well on Monday we took Brother Miao with us to see Lawrence. He is super cool. We taught him the Word of Wisdom, and he committed to live it!!! He also came to see the baptism with his wife on Saturday! He is so solid. He didn't make it to church though.
Tuesday we had our meetings and afterward everyone wanted to go to BWW. It is a thing in our mission. I spent the whole time talking to a pretty new missionary who I could tell was also trying not to watch all the TV's. That day we also saw an old investigator named Chen, she is from HK. Then we went to see Lina. She was super prepared for her baptism, and had gotten anti-ed by a friend, but she defended the church. Really good. She was elect. She is also looking into BYU right now. Speaking of; Christy from Riverside got accepted to BYU!!! At night we saw some other old investigators, Ryan and Selina. They talked a lot and had a lot of questions.
Wednesday, I woke up in the middle of the night with a really upset stomach. I made lots of trips to the bathroom. I tried my best to exercise in the morning, but it was interrupted by more trips to the bathroom. So I showered, didn't eat breakfast, and laid down. I slept for a while. I felt really really bad. The Miao's had invited us to lunch that day. I almost cancelled, but then I didn't want to hurt their feelings. So I just took two imodium, and went. The food was good, but I was so nauseous. When I blessed it, I prayed really hard that it would be healthy for our bodies. I was able to eat. They made this dou jiang... it is like Chinese oatmeal, and dan bing. A tortilla type thing with egg. Then gave us stuff to make it at home. It tasted a lot better the next day when I was feeling better. Well after the lunch we planned out the program for the baptism and helped them download videos for the Chinese New Year party this Saturday. After there, I tried to go out to work, but no one was letting us in, and I didn't feel so good. So I went home and slept for 45 minutes before we got a call from Schoonmaker. He got invited by a member in the English ward where he served to have dinner with their Chinese neighbor. So he asked us to come pick him up and take him. He tried to get me to just stay in the car because he said they only asked for 2 missionaries but we all went in. The dinner was fine, the lady wanted to go to church, but her English is good and she doesn't want to come to Eastvale so she will probably go to the English Elders. Then we practiced the dargon dance at night with the YM. I felt pretty good by then. Weird bug.
Thursday we had a good weekly planning session. We met with the Wu family. They are good, but they want to wait to be baptized. At night we saw brother Xiong. He is doing really well. He actually did the baptism for Lina on Saturday!
Friday we got a call from the Wu's. Her parents had come to visit, but they got sent back at the airport. Apparently this is happening a lot recently. Lots of people are just getting sent away. They are cracking down on how many Chinese people are coming in. If you do or say anything that is in anyway suspicious, or might lead them to believe you are coming here to stay, they will kick you out. The Wu's just asked us to come and talk with them, because they feel better after talking with us. So we went and talked. They told me my Chinese was way better than the people that talked to them over the phone at LAX. At night we had English class which was good. Then we saw Winter and Tracy and Morgan.
Saturday morning was the baptism. It worked out so well. It was extremely well attended. 3 missionaries from Irvine came, since Sister Wei moved out there. We had some good talks, good testimonies, and a nice musical number. Sister Wei got up and pulled out the the English class card that I had given her in July last year. And talked about it took of lot of contacts with the church before she decided to join. To all my brothers: talk with EVERYONE, and be nice to EVERYONE no matter if they reject you at first. You never know what will happen. The missionaries from Irvine were cool. The white one had really good Chinese because he had been with a bunch of native comps. I was really impressed. I translated the bishop's welcome without even breaking a sweat, but I don't know if I say things right or have the right accent. The rest of the day was really uneventful. Lots of walking around, and talking to people. We got bao zi and oj for dinner. We saw Annie and Jonny again. They are good, but still not interested... so sad.
Sunday was good. Lina got confirmed. Sister Xiong came. We had lots of lessons on the priesthood. There were 3 times that Chinese people talked about stuff that I had translated. I was glad to know people listen to what I am saying, and can understand. Sometimes I feel like while I am translating I am just rattling on and on, and no one listens. Good to sometimes hear that they were listening and that I make sense. At night Brother Jiang came with us to visit the Luo family and the Wu family. He was really nice and really good. This morning we went with the Luo's to help them register their kid for school.
Next transfer is coming soon. -Elder Murray
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