We spent the fourth here finding ALL day. Our appointment with the possible new investigator cancelled, so we went finding all day. We tried to find some Less Actives as well but there was no success. We did meet Grandma Lai. We were trying to get into this apartment to go and knock on our of our LA's doors, but the guard made us call up first (I hate it when that happens cause no one ever answers or they just say no and we cant make them feel guilty by saying it to our faces.) . So no one answered. But then this grandma (pohpoh) came up to us and was like "Oh you are looking for church friends? I go to church! I think I have seen you there!" Sister choi and I just looked at each other like.... huh? Cause she did not look familiar to us at all. So we asked her which church she went to, but she didnt know the name. Anyway.... So we scheduled to meet with her the next day. The next day we went over to her house and she was extremely happy to let us in. She just kept saying how happy she was to have 2 lengleui (pretty girls) as her companion. But she is pretty much blind. So we get to know her. Turns out she goes to church, but also practices Buddhism in her house. She has a couple statues that she prays to sometimes. We start teaching her the Restoration and we bring up the great apostasy and she says "STOP! I cant hear anymore!" we were really surprised cause she was loving the lesson up till that point. She changed so fast, I thought I was just hearing things wrong for a while. But she would not let us continue onto Joseph Smith. We asked her what was wrong, and what happened, but she just kept saying how she couldnt tell us now, but she would tell us down at her church. It was so weird! I really felt like all of the sudden she acted as if someone was watching her that didnt want her to learn the most important part of our message. I honestly think it was that bloody Buddhist statue. It is evil. We told her we are not from the same church that she goes to, but we invited her to come to church. She was like Yeah sure why not! call me later.
So we called her Saturday night and tried to tell her where to meet us and after a good 5 min of trying to explain we concluded that we would just go pick her up. So Sunday we went over to get her. Our Chapel is a good trains transfer away. She hadnt ridden the train in i dont even know how long. Old people dont leave their towns. But I bought her a ticket and held her hand the entire way. I hadnt realized how cut throat the trains are until I was trying to get a 70 something year old through a train ride. Trains are completely packed with people. They will just smush themselves into the train and wait for the doors to close. I think she was scared cause their were so many people and she thought she would lose us (hence the hand holding, even though it is freaking hot and sweaty). But we finally got to church just in time. We went into Relief Society and start shaking hands with everyone like usual and Lai pohpoh is right behind us shaking everyones hands and just loving all of the attention. The Relief Society loved her and Lai pohpoh was just so funny. During the first hymn Lai pohpoh turned to me and said "I am just so happy that you brought me here!" Which made me feel much better cause the entire train ride and walk to the church I just felt like I was taking advantage of a little old lady. So she loved church! Sister Choi and one of the members taught her after church while I taught one of the Recent Converts with another member. Sister Choi said that Lai pohpoh stopped her again during the great apostacy but they moved on anyway. Apparently Lai pohpoh is afraid of the spirit. She just wants to have fun. She really has no interest in learning the gospel. I am not quite so sure what we are going to do with her. But in the mean time we will find a member with a car to take her to church.
We also found another LA named Brother Cheung who is 69 and Autistic. No one has visited him in a really really long time. He was smoking when we found him and Sister Choi told him flat out that he cant smoke anymore and took his cigarettes away. She was awesome. I couldnt understand a single word he said, but sister choi was awesome. We told him everytime he wants to smoke to eat an apple, so right after the visit we went and got him 2 large bags of apples. We went to visit him a couple days later and he hadnt smoked! We will probably go see him tonight to see how he is doing.
Well I am glad that you are all having loads of fun together! Dont have to much fun with out me! Say hi to everyone and I love them!
Shea
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