"Let me introduce you to my little friend"

April 22, 2024

大家好！Hey Everyone!

What a strange week! We started off the week struggling to contact a lot of our friends we’ve been teaching, and then we ended the week with 4 completely new friends coming to church and a lesson with 3 of them immediately after. So as you can imagine, church this week went like this: *Internal Screaming*

Here’s a quick update on the friends though:

    MingMing said she’s busy, and her son has got some stuff going on with band? She hasn’t been to church yet and couldn’t meet with us this last week, but we’re hoping she can meet and come to church this coming week.

    Jem is still on date for baptism and still doing good. She was out of town this weekend, but she’s making good progress towards baptism.

    We met with a young college student named Ryan, who’s reeeeeeeally shy but kept showing up to random stuff this week, so that’s a good sign!

    Liu and Lundy attended in-person English class and then said they’d come to church. Liu seems more interested, so we’re gonna meet with him more this week.


Other highlights of this week include Elder Tang made me a cake which was super nice! It was made from scratch, too! (The cake was not even a lie!)

In other news, we drove all over the place this week and now we have little to no kilometers left for this month, so this week is gonna be really exciting.

I've been thinking this week about prayer, and how there are blessings that God can grant us conditional on our praying for them (see Prayer in the Bible Dictionary). So this week, pray for something specific that you need, or something specific that you would like God to help you with. Then look for the small, detailed ways that He’ll answer your prayers. I promise God always does answer prayers, and as you pray for blessings we will receive them.

Aight, that's it today. Stay cool guys!

Love you all! 爱你们！

–熊长老