We haven't been able to see Jada in a while, but we prayed about her baptismal date and we felt the 16th. On Friday we met her and extended the date to her (we had just finished teaching the message of the Restoration), and asked how she felt. With a big smile she said, "very happy". She hasn't been able to see us in a while because her phone broke, and she just moved--right in the Street Market next to the church!!! But she had been praying and reading and she has prayed to feel the Holy Ghost, but she didn't, so she picked up the Book of Mormon and read it, then she felt it! So she likes to read it! On our way out, we were going to eat out but didn't know what we wanted to eat, she told us that we should pray and ask God. So Sister Taylor prayed, that perhaps we may be able to meet a prepared person when we get food. Then we said good bye to Jada and talked about what we should eat, then we really wanted to eat the Indonesian Curry, but the store was about to close in five minutes! So we dashed to the store and they were fine and happy about getting us a take out order of curry, and we went to the APM Mall in the food court to sit down and eat. There were so many people already eating there and we waited a while when I saw two seats next to two people on a 4people table. I looked around and there didn't seem any other option so I asked if they were taken and they weren't so we sat there and started eating. After blessing the food and I started eating, I heard the lady speak in Korean right next to me! I asked her in Korean if she was Korean and she said no, she is Korean Born Chinese! Then we started speaking in Cantonese with her and she recognized our church, she has seen Elders on the street before and was also impressed by our Cantonese. The man who was with her also was excited to see the food we were eating and asked where we got it from, because they like eating at this Indonesian store but they had moved and they didn't know where to. We told them it was nearby our church and were able to give them our church flier with address, website, and our phone number on it, and invited them to learn more about our church online. They were very pleasant and left happily! We were stunned, and according to Sister Taylor apparently there were many other two people seats open at the time but I chose that table--I hadn't noticed! It was amazing how specific everything was: The place, the language, the time, the food, everything! We shared it with Jada next day and she was so excited! We have been teaching her daily and she is always beaming and excited! She also has a testimony of prayer because meeting with us everything she prayed about the night before is answered. She knows Heavenly Father really is listening.
We had scheduled to teach Jada again, and invited Sarah to help us, and her mom, Sister Law Poon felt to just come along, We had just finished seeing A-Yih, who has been progressing lately, she has been praying and feeling good, her faith is increasing and still has questions. She had a bad bug/mosquito bite that wouldn't stop itching badly no matter what medicine she tried putting on it, and she prayed that it won't itch that badly. We were just done teaching A-Yih and were looking at the baptismal pictures and picture of Law-Poon family, their father's recent baptism picture, and A-Yih just told us that she wants to be baptised!!! then, Sister Law Poon and Sarah walked in and A-Yih really wanted to ask Sister Law-Poon many things. So we split and Sister Law Poon was able to help A-Yih a lot, and, she had even randomly brought a Thai medicine to put on bug bites to reduce itchiness that day! A-Yih tried it on, and it really worked! We had prayed for a while for a great fellowshipper for A-Yih and we couldn't really find one, but sister Law Poon was inspired to come with her daughter and she was really who A-yih needed! I love LawPoon Ji muih so much! She is so in tune and incredible, so humble yet so bold and pure. She is such a powerful living, walking testimony of God's blessing and influence and love.
Anyways, so we are very excited about these people progressing. So excited about Jada's baptism this week! she is so pure and honest, so humble and child-like. So willing to listen and follow, and in tune with the Spirit, she readily recognizes God's answers and His love for her. I am learning so much from Jada's example. She has already invited people from the Aberdeen Ward to her baptismal service :)
Christy is also determined to do anything to come to church, she knows she is happiest when she is at church and with the church people. She also wants to be baptized!
A-Kay is also determined to join our church and be active, we will be pushing her baptismal date back though, because the policies has changed this week and has become more specific in the mission. But she is ready to quit, even smoking, she has already completely quit her alcohol.
We are so incredibly blessed with these miracles the Lord pours upon us. We never deserve them, nor are fully worthy of them, but we are grateful for the Grace of God and our Savior's Atonement.
Loves Always,
Sister Burningham
I finally remembered to bring my camera and the usb cord today, but,,
I forgot to bring my other memory card! So only these pictures, wait for Debby's baptism and other pictures later!
We had a "sushi" night, on P-day we spent some more time "cooking", since they didn't sell the skins of the yu-bu-sushi(?) I attempted to cook one up with normal tofu, but it didn't work, so I whipped up a random tofu soup with left over kimchi and chopped lettus and dumplings at the last minute which was better tasting than I thought it would be! So I was rather proud of myself. Sister Taylor's Aunt is Korean and she loves korean food and we just had some pleasant time eating very random dinner.
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