#StayTuned

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Hello everyone! I love Eastvale, I love the Chinese people, and I love this work. This past week has been another pretty awesome one. Elder Nelson and I were able to find 4 new investigators and we also had 4 investigators that attended church this past week! Heavenly Father continues to bless us everyday and I am so happy out here! 

Monday night we had another lesson with Angela, Annie's 9 year old daughter. We taught her the Plan of Salvation and it was another great lesson! She is currently on date for baptism for November 11th! Please pray for her. Also, that night, we had the opportunity to visit Ding Di Xiong! Ding Di Xiong has gone less active recently, and so we went by and were pretty bold with him and invited to keep God's commandments and to attend church. He is such a great guy and it is such a big jump but brings so much joy and peace. (More on Ding Di Xiong and cow tail, later!)

Tuesday morning we had our weekly "DLC" and "DDM" meetings. We received more awesome training and I learned a lot! That afternoon was spent doing our studies and doing a lot of Seeking With Faith, trying to find more prepared Chinese people to teach! That night, we also got to go with Brother Godinez (a member in the Eastvale Ward) to one of his neighbor's homes so that we could introduce ourselves to a Chinese family! Turns out, the house was the house of a former investigator, and so they let us in and we got to talk a little bit about the Book of Mormon with them. They said that we could come back in November so we are praying for that! Their names are Johnny Li and Yan Ni! 

Wednesday was awesome too! While we were out Seeking With Faith at Harada Park, we ran into Duan Di Xiong, a cool Chinese guy that we first talked to a while ago. We contacted him again, and he let us share a message with him! We shared a bit from the Restoration, and it was awesome! Duan Di Xiong is an Uber driver and closed out of the Uber APP so that he could meet with us! For those who know the Chinese, they are generally busy and industrious and getting them to slow down enough to hear the message and feel the spirit is difficult, so it meant a lot that he would quit working to hear about the Restoration. 

Imma play all these hymns #StayTuned

Thursday morning we had service again at the Jensen Alvarado Ranch. After that, Elder Nelson and I went to Ding Di Xiong's house because he invited us to eat lunch with him! We had some good Chinese food, including some cow tail, which was pretty good! That day, we did a lot of Seeking With Faith as well.

Friday afternoon we found a former investigator named Miao Di Xiong, and went to his house and taught him a lesson! He is a really nice guy. Pray for him and that he can understand the importance of the Gospel! That night, we had another great English Class. After our English Class, Elder Nelson taught Deng and Jing while I taught Xun and Sara. I finished teaching them the Plan of Salvation, and Li Di Xiong sat in on the lesson as well. It was a powerful lesson and he shared with them a little bit from his conversion to the Gospel of Jesus Christ which really brought the Spirit to the lesson! Share your faith with others. It changes everything.

Saturday morning we had another Weekly Blitz. Elder Dunn, Elder Porrazzo, and I went out together, and we were able to get 4 referrals for the Eastvale Elders. That night, we were doing some more Seeking With Faith in a local neighborhood, and ran into a Chinese man named Leo Liang! He invited us to go sit at a table right outside of his garage, and we also talked with Eric Yuan, who is a high school student living there with his family. We asked if we could teach them more about Jesus Christ, and they said that we could! So here we are with 2 interested souls and we realized that we didn't have any pamphlets or copies of the Book of Mormon with us. A missionary fail. So we made a full sprint to our car, all the way across the neighborhood, to grab some teaching materials. It was a another great lesson and a memorable experience for sure! 

Sunday was awesome again! We had 4 investigators that attended church! Deng and Jing, Diana, and Angela all came to church! Keep praying for them. It was awesome, and another great day, worshiping God the Father and Jesus Christ with everyone!

Elder Nelson, Diana and Elder Willes at church

This has been another awesome week, and we are super excited to continue to help our Chinese Brothers and Sisters Come Unto Christ. Love you all have a great week!

Elder Willes