"...and have loved every bit of it so far. The hard times and the good times" Week 69

Hey!

So this week has been great. I'm right across the street from the temple and mission office so that's been fun. Because we are so close we get special assignments sometimes.  Like for three days this week we had an elder from south america staying with us before he went home. He was crazy haha.

We are right on the other side of the Harbour bridge from my old area in the city, and its still like 90% asian here! My companion speaks mandarin though and they are always surprised. It's funny because we will walk up and say hi or something and they will just ignore us.  Then he whips out the chinese and boom they love us haha, their chins just drop and its awesome:) 

We have some good people we are working with in our ward and some good investigators. All we do in this new area is GQing. It means golden question. So we just talk to people on the train or bus or on the street and its awesome. It took me a day or two to get used to it again because it takes you way out of your comfort zone but its all good. 

There isnt too much to report on yet but I know good things will happen in this area. We are working hard and finding heaps of people willing to hear our message. Most of the appointments are for this week!

This zone is a lot different than the last one, no more polynesian missionaries haha.  Most of them in this zone are asian.  They are awesome though. Their conversion stories are all amazing. 

One cool experience this week is we were working through a list the bishop gave us and it was about 9pm so we were walking to the car to head home and as we passed a door we felt like we should knock on it. We knocked and a chinese student answered. She said "hey! I have seen you before.  Do you want to come in?"  We said sure and sat down with her and her boyfriend.  They brought us some water and strawberries and it was just totally different than anything that has ever happened with chinese people. They usually never let people in! But we talked and began to teach them. They had awesome questions and we were able to help them. We just saw them again last night and talked more. They ran into some anti stuff but are not sure if they beleive it. We resolved their concerns and will see them again on Sunday. They are doing awesome:)

The mission is going great.  I'm at about 16 months now and have loved every bit of it so far. The hard times and the good times. 

Love you all! 

Elder White