Saturday service

Well as with most things we managed to get confused again. We thought that service arrangements were suppose to be at the hall on Saturday at 8:45. So we arrived on time but no one was there. A bit discouraged and tired we decided that we would walk to the bank since we needed money for a visit to the scooter store anyways later in the day. When we returned there was still no one there so we decided to head home and email some of Hannah’s studies. As we were getting on the scooter, a brother arrived from the XiTun congregation (The other congregation that meets at the same hall as us) and then a few more. We were kind of hesitant since we are still nervous about driving to places especially when we don't know where we are going. But they were persistent and said that the territory was close enough that they just walk to it.

We walked to the territory and I Talked with a very nice unbaptised publisher Roger Chen. He only spoke a little English but between his English and my even smaller Chinese we were still able to talk. It was really nice he has the goal of baptism and regular pioneering.

When we arrived at the territory I was assigned to work with a Korean sister named Grace Lin. She was very kind and took several doors before I worked up the nerve to try. It was an apartment building with about 28 buzzers. When you press the buzzer it rings and then if you hear an answer you talk into the intercom which also has a camera so they can see you. I gave my very simple presentation to 3 people and 2 of them were very nice and told me I could leave the tract in their mail box. After lots of looking the sister and I finally found where the mail box was and put the tracts in the appropriate boxes.

Hannah Worked with Sabrina, a sister who lived in Canada for several years. Her English was very good, and since Hannah speaks Chinese well she didn't take it easy on her, she had her talking at every other door. Hannah placed mags with a nice man who said they could come back.

After service the group went to a Family Mart for break and we followed a sister back to the hall since we wanted to go home before returning to the hall to meet Justin who had volunteered to take us to the scooter shop. When we got to the hall however we realized that our helmets were still inside the hall, and the sister we were with didn't have a key. So we had to wait for the group to return. After retrieving our helmets Justin came and we rode in his car to the scooter shop. They had a lot of scooters, but most were 100cc and we can only drive a 50cc so that limited the selection quite a bit. He had one that he was going to let us try, but it wouldn't start, so not a good sign. We got his card and he said he would try to get some more ready for us to choose from. We headed home then for a nap.

Justin

About 5:45 we headed over to Brian and Sue Lee's new apartment for dinner. There we met Jackie another sister also from California. It was a very fun evening with lots of good stories and homemade chicken noodle soup. We also tried some new fruit called a custard apple? You eat it with a spoon and it is very sweet.

On our way Home Jackie showed us how to get to Carefour (kind of like a Target back home). Tim and Jamie had shown us it before but we didn't pay close enough attention to know how to get there. As it turns out it was really close to the hall.

Well that is about all I have to report for now sorry for getting a little behind with classes starting everything got really busy.

Until next time,

Love Phil and Hannah