Hey! Well, welcome into 2015! Those pictures of skiing were awesome! I miss the mountains! But I am going to freeze when I get home, I think! The other day it was rainy at night and I woke up and it was like 75 degrees, and I felt cold. Like really cold... But oh well, I'll get used to it.
Well, this week was pretty slow actually. Because of the new year, everyone has been out of town and so we have had a really hard time getting many appointments. So we have been spending a lot of time proselyting. But it has been raining almost every day this week. Which makes it hard, because when it rains, not many people are outside to talk to, and we can't knock on doors. So it makes it a bit difficult. And we get wet. So we are just banking on the old missionary rumor that the more you proselyte in the rain, the prettier your wife gets! Hopefully it comes true! But we have been able to find a few people. And then we experienced a few miracles.
One of them was after proselyting for several hours and having almost no success, we were walking to a members house and a guy called to us "Hey, are you Mormons?" We started talking to him, and turns out he just moved here about a week ago from Kuching Malaysia. He was baptized in 2010 there, and knew several of the people we met while we were there. I asked him and he knew about that guy that we spent a lot of time with that had adopted all those boys. And he knew Alana, and said that she is serving a mission in Kuala Lumpur right now. Sadly he didn't know grandma and grandpa haha. But it was awesome to meet and talk to him. He said he had been looking for the church here, but hadn't found it yet. So we took him to the member's house with us, and then took him to the church. He said he would come this Sunday, but sadly he didn't show up. Hopefully next week.
Then on Sunday, this random guy showed up at church. We had no clue who he was and had never met him before. But we talked to him at church, and then taught him after church. Turns out his friend gave him a pamphlet a week or so ago, and yesterday he decided to come. When we taught him, he committed to baptism on the 24th of January, and wants to bring his brother with him next week! So that was awesome!
On Sunday night we had a "cottage meeting" at President's house. He invited all the missionaries in Jakarta to come to his house and bring any investigators or new members who could come. We had a short devotional and then had a little dinner together! It was awesome! And that guy, his name is Pak M, came! And he seemed to really enjoy it, so that was awesome!
Today we are going to play some basketball or golf for P Day, and next week we got permission to go paintballing with a new member! So that will be awesome! (Oh and tell Sister Sheffield that we got permission for paintballing, because she tried for months and could never get it haha)
Um, ya, I think that is mostly it for this week! Hope you all have a great week and that you get some snow! I'll be praying for it!
Well, I love you all!
Love Elder Wood
