大家好!
This has been such a full week. To be realistic too, it feels
like I was just emailing yesterday and so thinking about what has happened
since yesterday is turning out to be a challenge. But I was able to think of a
few things.
As for the highlight of the week, 張瑤誼姐妹 (Sister Zhang) and 黃全瑋弟兄 (Thomson) both got
baptized this week, which was super exciting. 張瑤誼姐妹 (Sister Zhang) got
baptized on Friday after MLC and it was such a good baptismal service. There
wasn't a ton of people who attended, but it such a great spirit in the room. As
for my favorite part was having a member introduce her to everyone attending,
and that person was her husband. It was really great for them all to have been
baptized and on sunday, to make it even better, 張瑤誼姐妹 (Sister Zhang)'s
husband had his interview for the temple and for the priesthood and
so did 張瑤誼姐妹 (Sister Zhang), but just for the temple. They should both be
going to the temple here soon which will be such a blast. As for Sophie,
she has to wait til June 9th, but she is already asking when she can have an
interview with the bishop to go into the temple! They really are such an
amazing family. And then on Sunday morning, 黃全瑋弟兄 (Thomson) also got baptized. One of
coolest parts of that baptism was actually before the baptism when we met with
him and his daughter to explain baptism a little since his daughter has never
been to church. As we were sharing about baptism with his daughter, we
invited 黃全瑋弟兄 (Thomson) to share a little testimony, and it was so cool. He
shared how he had previously been baptized and how it felt, but how it didn't
feel complete. He is very familiar with the bible, and knew
there should be an confirmation by the laying on of hands but that
his old church did not do that and how excited he was to finally be confirmed
to the one and only church that truly has the authority to confirm people.
Elder McNeil and I both had big smiles on after that one, and then that went
right into the baptismal service, which was super good.
As for the majority of the week though, we have spent it
finding, with tons of success. This week we seriously had so many miracles.
With this last too weeks, our key investigators all became recent converters
and so we are working to find some more solid investigators. And this last
week, we found them. It just felt everyone we were finding actually was living
in our area which was such a blessing. So this next week we will be meeting
with a LOT of people that we found during this last week. So the work here is
going super well.
So, the other big thing from this week was also MLC, which was
when a lot of changes were announced in the mission. There are a lot of changes
being made and it is looking like it will be super fun. The two biggest changes
that are happening are with transfer meetings and exchanges. For transfer
meetings, there will no longer be transfer meetings. This is a change being
made by all missions around the world and is directly from Elder Oaks. So for
the next transfer day, it will be very interesting. We do not know all the
details yet, but we have been told that missionaries are now being allowed to
travel allow on trains, buses, subway, or taxis. So, that is all that we have
been told, but we will be told more here in the next few weeks. The other one
was exchanges. All exchanges will be done in the leader's area.
In the past when going on exchanges one person would go to the other
companionships area, but from now on, both will be going to the Assistants/Zone
Leader's/Sister Training Leader area, which should be interesting since our
apartment really isn't that big, but it should be interesting. So there are a lot
of changes being made worldwide and there are suppose to be a good
number of changes being made within the mission as well, which should be
interesting, but also exciting for the mission.
Well, that was basically my week, lots of miracles and just
enjoying the work. It really has been a blast serving in this ward and also
seeing so much success as well. Thank you for all the emails and prayers! Hope
you all have a great week!
我愛你們,
Love you,
柯長老
Elder Okeson
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