Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!!! Yesterday was the Chinese celebration for the middle of Autumn, and from what it sounds like, that was accompanied by a lunar eclipse! We didn't get to see it, but it was super cool! A Chinese recent convert gave me a moon cake, a traditional treat they eat with the festival. The traditional kind of moon cake is made with lotus seeds with an egg yolk in the center, representing the moon. I'll send pictures!
I passed my driving theory test this week! I've signed up to take the practical driving test now, so I hope it all goes well!
We had lots of Chinese friends come to Church this week, so that was one miracle! We're going to invite them to General Conference this weekend, and we even have a room in the chapel set up to play all of General Conference in Mandarin! So cool!! Another great moment at Church was watching several recent converts helping pass the sacrament. It is so amazing to see how strong their testimonies have become and how the gospel of Jesus Christ has changed them. I love this Church so much!
This week, we've focused on staying in contact with our investigators, because recently we haven't been able to set up many appointments with them. We've noticed a big difference since the first time we sat down to contact everybody we could, and we're hoping to get the ball rolling even more and to keep it rolling. The ward mission leader also started a list for the missionaries to come by to visit the members on certain days, so we're going to start seeing the members much more often now!
Hope everybody has a great, awesome, wonderful week! Love y'all!
Elder McOmber
Funnies of the Week
On Sunday, the ward mission leader asked me to read this one paragraph from the manual that had the word "sailor" in it. For some reason, I just couldn't pronounce it right - I kept trying to pronounce it like "savior". I think I've been on my mission for a while now.
One of the zone leaders told me that I'm one of the oldest missionaries in the zone right now.
We went with a member to pick up some of our friends for Church on Sunday, but when we got there, we saw Elder and Sister Blackham, the YSA couple for Norwich, ready to drive back to Church with our friends already in the car. Sister Blackham explained to me, "We just came to pick up a recent convert, and then these two girls hopped into the car saying that they wanted to come to Church!"
Chinese Moon Cakes
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