So here is the shortened version of the story. We had 2 investigators who were on date to be baptized this week and next week. and at the beginning of this week they vanished. We would call them and it went straight to voicemail they didnt show up to any of our appointments and just really dropped off the face of the earth. It was hard because it was both of them on the same day and we had grown to care about them so much. So we fasted and prayed and worked so hard to find a way to get in contact with them. Then on sunday night we had been fasting and we were closing our fast at like 9 ish. we had decided that morning that if we didnt make contact by the end of the day we would have to drop them. (meaning stop meeting with them and drop the dates). we fasted all day and nothing happened. so as i was praying to close our fast i said basically "thy will be done" and we ended the prayer. Like ten seconds later our phone buzzed over and over. We looked at eachother and i smiled and got our hopes up one more time. And It was both of them texting us at the same time and this is what in essence they both said. "i am so sorry my phone stopped working at monday and it just barley got fixed we had crazy things come up that made us not be able to come to church or our appointments! we have been reading the scriptures everyday and praying and we know this is true......" We both looked at eachother and started yelling and hugging and doing random stupid things haha. It was a miracle! 2 people had the same thing happen to both of them at the same time and then they both texted us at the same time. It was so hard not to get depressed and just give up during the week. Our 2 top invesigators had disappeared. Also the school semesters just ended here and like all of our investigators had to go back home for a couple of months. So we really felt like we were back to ground zero. all week we would go out talking to people all day for like 8 hours and we didnt find a single person who was interested. It was a trial of our faith. But we worked hard and didnt give up and God blessed us so much for it.
Also yesterday we had a pretty funny experience so i have been learning chinese from Elder Xhu since i have been in the city and i have gotten pretty good at it. We were out finding and i saw this giant group of chinese tourist. We went up and began talking to them and they just ignored us. then i said a couple things to them in chinese and they all flipped out! it was crazy all of them started yelling and taking selfies with me and taking pictures and all that i was like famous or something! it was so funny it went on for like 7 min! im in with the asians haha.
Another cool thing i saw was we were at the University of Sydney and we walked into this one part of it and i was like -this looks familiar and we were trying to figure out why and we realized it was hogwarts from harry potter! i guess a good chunk of scenes were filmed there! (we had the senior couples google it) i will go back and take some pictures.
its been a good week. I went to the temple today and that was awesome like always. I love being a missionary even when it is hard.
Love you all heaps!
Elder White
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