TRUNK or TREAT x2

"A small miracle happened for me. We were tracting at another local park in the area, trying to find more investigators. I was feeling really discouraged. No one wanted to listen to us, and I was feeling really down. Right as we were about to give up, our last two contacts were a success. I was so grateful for Heavenly Father's blessings when I was feeling really down. Heavenly Father is really mindful of all of his missionaries!"

Elder Willes and Elder Yang

We try to do any grocery shopping at the local Asian market in hopes of finding people to teach

Hello everyone. I had another great week here in the CRM. I have really felt Heavenly Father's hand this week in my mission. I am so grateful for the opportunity to serve here and help the people Come unto Christ. Tuesday, I had my field-orientation at the mission office with the 12 ish missionaries that came in a week after me. We had a bunch of trainings which basically took that whole day. I learned a lot so that was good! Towards the end of the training, we had a testimony meeting and everyone was assigned a trainer and an area. I already knew who my trainer was and area so no surprise for me there :) Elder Zeng and Elder Yang are awesome. 

We had district and zone meetings this week. We also had our first official lesson with Tang Cheng. He has a few questions and concerns about the doctrine, but has shown some interest and wants to learn more about Christ. We also had the annual Ward Trunk or Treat this week. It was awesome. We had a great turnout! There were Chinese all over... I loved it.

Thursday we spent most of the day at UCR, finding. That is super fun. College students from China are awesome. I love talking to them and trying to help them Come unto Christ. We had a few good contacts and got some contact information too. That night, a small miracle happened for me. We were tracting at another local park in the area, trying to find more investigators. I was feeling really discouraged. No one wanted to listen to us, and I was feeling really down. Right as we were about to give up, our last two contacts were a success. We contacted Shu Jie Mei and her son, Allen. Shu Jie Mei has a lot of interest and I was so grateful for Heavenly Father blessing me when I was feeling really down. It was so awesome. Heavenly Father is really mindful of all of his missionaries!

Friday was super busy. Studies in the morning, and then we met with a PI, Amit, at UCR. He is a student and super smart. We are hoping and praying he continues to show interest in our message! We then spent most of the day at UCR and also had another English Class. The same awesome couple for Taiwan came. They are both in their 70's and 80's and are hilarious. We are trying to help them learn English, and share with them our message. They don't seem to be too interested but we will continue to try!! 

Saturday morning we had our weekly blitz. This week I was with Elder Steed (another Elder in our zone). In 90 minutes, we made 11 contacts walking around and got a referral too! That was awesome. We also had lunch with our Stake President, President Jergensen. He is super cool. We had a dinner scheduled with a family in a different ward, but they just invited us to come to their Trunk or Treat for dinner so we went to two this week haha. After that we went and visited the Zhu family. They are super busy, but are showing more interest. Please pray for them! We are going to try and put them on for baptism this next week.

Sunday was awesome. I was asked me to give the opening prayer in Sacrament meeting. I also bore my testimony to the English ward. :) Sunday night we drove to Riverside to meet with the Grahams. The Grahams have a 18 year old girl named Evelyn living with them, from mainland China. We ate with them, and shared a message with Evelyn. We taught her the third lesson, about the Gospel of Christ. It was awesome. We invited her to read the Book of Mormon every day, and she said she couldn't do it. I felt prompted to invite her to just try it for a couple of days, and see how she feels. I let her borrow my Book of Mormon and promised her that she would feel happier. Please pray for her as well! 

This week has been awesome. I am learning more and more each day. I am so excited to keep serving the people here and am praying for our investigators so that we can help them. Love you all have a great week! 

Elder Willes  

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