So this letter is going to be a lot shorter. I don't have a ton of time because we just got back from the temple (which is why this is so late) and I forgot my journal so we'll see what I remember from last week!
Last Monday we moved completely over to Vancouver which took most of our P-day. We went to a former investigators new hair cut salon because he invited us over and apparently all he wanted was for us to be models. He didn't even cut our hair so that was interesting. So I might be a poster in a window for a random Asian hair cut place... Chinese people man.
We went over to see Chen PoPo, an old lady who has been spoiling missionaries for the past 30 years or so. She made us tons of food. It was fun to just get to visit with her. She is kind of crazy but really funny! Family Home Evening in the YSA ward is so much fun too!
We were finding and I found this really solid kid who is going to meet with us this week. I said a prayer with him on the street and he really felt it.
MIRACLE!
Tuesday we went on exchanges with the Spanish Elders in our district. It went pretty well. I just went finding the whole day.
2 pretty funny experiences: An old lady came up to me and asked me to help her cross the street. So I did, but when I tried to talk to her, she just started bashing the Mormon Church the whole time! It was an interesting experience to have somebody on your arm, but bashing your religion the whole time. She was a funny lady, that's not super weird in Vancouver to be honest.
The other one was we were finding down town, and there was this big group of old ladies from Taiwan I started talking to, and they just freaked out that I could have a conversation in Chinese with them. They wanted me to take pictures with them, and marry their daughters. Pretty standard stuff. There's a picture down below.
Actually, the Spanish Elders have been struggling recently, and the Elder I was with was able to find a potential who speaks Spanish!
MIRACLE!
I can't remember what happened on Wednesday. We have been teaching this SUPER solid kid named Nemo recently, and he is getting baptised at the end of the month.
So yeah, I found Nemo!
And I kid you not, his best friend is named Ariel. So we found Nemo and he was hanging out with Ariel! No joke.
It was actually a miracle how we found him. We were late for something and leaving the sky-train station and felt we needed to go back up there. And lo and behold, in the corner was Nemo! He actually got off on the wrong stop and was waiting for the next train. And now he is getting baptised.
MIRACLE!
Thursday we taught this amazing guy named Greg. He is white, but his wife is Chinese. His car got stolen and then he was cleaning out his rental car and found our Mormon.org card with out number written on the back so he called us and we meet with him and he is SO ready for the gospel. Basically all of the questions he asked us were from Lesson 1, and were able to be answered by the Message of the Restoration of the Gospel. God really worked hard to get him to hear the truth, he and his wife are getting baptised in December!
MIRACLE!
Friday was MLC (Mission Leadership Council) where all the Zone Leaders in the whole mission get together for an all day meeting with President and Sister Burt. Elder Hay was on the council for over a year, and since this was his last one, President invited him to come. I'm still a greenie, but President Burt let me come with Elder Hay which has never happened before. Apparently I was by far the youngest missionary to ever be allowed to be on the council. President pulled me aside and said the reason he wanted me there was so I can learn how it goes "just in case you happen to come back" (wink, wink). So it was a huge honour to be trusted so much by my Mission President. Friday night I went exchanges AGAIN with the Zone Leaders.
Saturday we just taught a lot of lessons with the Zone Leaders. It was in English, which is weird to teach in, since I'm so used to Chinese. The Zone Leaders broke the front bumper on their car which was really funny! It rained all day which was nice I guess.
Sunday we had church. That's all I remember, whoops!
Yesterday was really awesome. We went finding at UBC (University of British Colombia) and it is insane how easy it was to get people to talk to us. Literally everyone stopped to talk to us and we got about 13 potential investigators now. It was really awesome. Also taught a really inspired lesson with a semi former investigator Bruce. He committed to baptism on December 14 which is amazing. I really think he is going to follow through this time. The scriptures we felt inspired to share are just what he needed to hear.
Today we went to the temple and it was an amazing spiritual experience. I love to go to the temple, and it is really beautiful there. We took a picture but it hasn't been emailed to me yet, so maybe next week!
Love you all, you are all amazing. I love it here and hope you all see miracles every week!
Love,
王長老
Elder Wallace
Wallace Street in Vancouver, Happy Birthday Rachel
The Chinese ladies he met downtown, who were fascinated by him.
My friend just entered his mission and is working in the office so she tool these and sent them to me last week while he was in the office getting supplies!!!
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