WE CHALLENGED HER

May 12, 2011 Thursday

Tonight Yingping came over and brought some of Maud’s things for us to store. Maud decided to go home to Taiwan for 3 months, and she decided we could store her stuff. It’s really not much. We just hope we don’t get transferred before she comes back. I can see it turning into a “comedy of errors” if we leave it here and elders come back in. We are excited for Yingping though. We found out there is an employment specialist couple in Perth who are willing to work with her. We gave her their phone number so she can get in touch with them. Bless her heart, she is so afraid that if she doesn’t get a job she will have to return to China and become “rubbish” (her word.) She’s not impressed with her government and its corruption. She says if she works over there she will be required to be a robot doing everything to please her boss and not be able to express an opinion.
Later we went to Moana’s and taught her and her girls about more of the plan of salvation. We also read from the Book of Mormon with them and showed them how short “10 minutes a day” can be. When we were done, we asked if we could talk to her alone and challenged her to talk to Rob to see if he would be willing to talk to us so we can present the concept of family, priesthood, and the patriarchal concept. We asked if they’d ever discussed marriage. She said they had but not for a while. He was originally turned off of it because his first marriage ended in failure. He and Moana have 15 years together so there’s a good chance this one will last. She said she would talk to him about it. Before, she had just said that he wasn’t interested. Hopefully we will have a change of heart. We also challenged her again to bring the girls to church.