Rancho Penasquitos 2

Hi Family,

How are you? It sounds like last week was busy, with mom and dad going down to utah and grandma and grandpa going up to seattle. I bet you're all settled back down again.

So, on to talking about the work here. Emily Tsai is now a progressing investigator, she's doing very well, and has expressed desire to be baptized after she gains more understanding about the church. We met her at her house 3 times last week to teach her, she came to english class where I taught with elder gibbons, and we went with her to church. She has a schedule conflict to come to the Chinese branch, so we went with her to the english ward by her house in Rancho Bernardo. We're going to try to get her coming to the Chinese branch one of these weeks, though. Not this week or next week because of general and stake conference, but it will happen. I think we're going to get her to come.

As for other investigators, well, we still don't have any. We have a lot of contacts and potential investigators, but arranging appointments is very hard: Chinese people, like everybody, don't really like to schedule stuff and always say they'll call you back when they have free time. So we're trying to figure out ways to stop by when they'll be home on weekends without scheduling. We have one reference in particular that we have called several times this week, and she hasn't been able to talk to her husband to set up a time yet. So, Elkington and Jensen went during english class on saturday to just try to stop by, and though they were headed out the door, it almost worked, and they at least were contacted face to face.

We have spent a lot of time organizing the area, making tracting cards, etc. The work needs to be organized so that we don't just waste time in unproductive areas. I think we are pretty much done with that organization, though, so we are starting into full-gear finding work now.

We have also been meeting weekly with 3 recent converts. Ronald and Calvin his son are really cool. Ronald's mom is also a recent convert, but she's not in our area. Ronald is trying to get his wife to join, and we think that we can probably get her mother too eventually, so the misisonaries have been meeting with them consistently. The other recent convert is ShuMing Cao, a young married woman with two kids. She's very nice and shy, but she has a testimony and is finishing the book of mormon this week. There are a lot of good people here.

Well, that's about all that's been happening this week. I am doing well and I have been happy. The weeks here go by so much faster than in the MTC. We often have a lot of fun.

That's really cool that your mentor at microsoft is from hong kong. Maybe he needs a book of mormon. Our chinese branch has probably more cantonese people than mandarin, so I am starting (but only starting) to understand a little bit of cantonese. All the talks and testimonies are given in one form of chinese and english, so that's helpful. I might need to learn some cantonese out here eventually. :P

Thanks for the letters, mom dad and michelle. I love all of you, and becky and lisa too, although I love them just a little bit less because they haven't written lately. Just kidding.

Have a good week,
Love, Elder Myers