Some new contacts

Dear Family,

So, what has happened this week? Well, Diamond "Tanya" Young is now a new investigator, and we met with her again, and she accepted our invitation to teach her the gospel. So, we'll see how she progresses, but we're hoping that we can bring her into the church. We have a lot of people with really really high potential for becoming investigators too, so we're still working on them and any day now they could start. We took a finding faith in christ dvd to one of them, Wu Lai, for his birthday. He's been really busy so unable to make appointments with us, but his job was a temporary job with Katrina relief, and since the disaster's over, his job is ending too. So this week we should be able to start meeting with him. He accepted a challenge I gave him to read the book of mormon 10 minutes a day, and he is pretty open.

Emily isn't progressing too much. She's still in that kind of sign-mongering mindset and we can't break it, so we've kind of pulled back on the reigns and are just going to take it slowly, teaching lessons every week to strengthen her testimony for as long as we need to.

One time this week, I was on exchanges with Brother Bradshaw in our ward, and he had a taiwanese neighbor, so we went to the house, and I invited Mr Chan to hear the gospel. And he accepted. So we had a discussion with him on saturday, and have another one next saturday. I don't know how interested he is, but we're sharing the lessons. And why did Mr. Chan accept? Cause he had seen that Brother Bradshaw was a good guy, so his church couldn't be bad. So, remember, your good examples of who you are can open opportunities to sharing the gospel.

Mrs. Ma is still right on track to be baptized on lisa's birthday (December 4). She is awesome. It will be my first baptism of the mission.

I have also been learning a lot of chinese reading and writing. I have been using some flash cards that the mission office sent us, and now I can read at least 500 commonly used characters. So that's helpful. I can probably understand about 70% of the words in the book of mormon.

Anyway, other than that, not much has happened this week. There seems to have been a larger than usual number of cancelled appointments this week. That was disappointing, but we're still pressing forward and working hard.

Thanks for writing this week. I hope you all stay safe and have a wonderful holiday.

Love,
Elder Myers