This a dictation of a voice recording that Elder Henderson sent this last week. It sounds like he is really struggling with his toe, please keep him in your prayers. Thank you so much!! Hopefully this procedure will fix the problem once and for all.
This is Elder Henderson. Elder Sano and I are just sitting
here on the train going to Ping dong which is a city in our Zone. I thought I
would do the voice recording right now. We're headed to Ping Dong because I
need to get to the doctor, dang it. My ingrown toenail has been acting up a lot
lately and it's just wrecking me. It woke me up a couple times in the night
last night, it's killing me! I've procrastinated too long so I have to go to
the doctor to get it fixed today. This last week, Tuesday we had a good day of
contacting and trying to visit people. We met with our investigator brother
Wang and he is doing super well. He is continuing to improve. We shared the
rest of the Plan of Salvation with him and invited him to pray about it and it
seems like he is doing really good. On Wednesday, we had a zone conference and
we went to Gaoziong which was my first city, and we were there with two other
zones and had a super good Zone conference. President Teh is awesome. He talked
about working with the members better and being more Christ-like missionaries
and having more Christ-like attributes. It was super good. So now we have a
plan to work more with members and to try to be better Christ-like
missionaries. Thursday and Friday we went on exchanges. I went on exchanges
with elder Hales in our district. He is a super awesome missionary. This is his
fourth transfer, he came to Taiwan the same as Elder Strong. He is working very
hard, we were in our area, and we met with Brother Wang again, and taught him
the restoration. It was awesome. And we invited him to read the book of Mormon.
We try to help him realize how important it is. The Book of Mormon is super
sacred and, help him to feel the truth and power behind reading it. So we were
like, okay we're going to, how do you say that in English, we were going to
loan him a book, so he said okay I'll make sure to read it and he said okay the
next time I see you I'll give it back to you. He is very serious about reading
it, which was awesome. We also ran into this guy and we sat down it with him
and had a great lesson about God and prayer. And just our relationship with
Heavenly Father. It was super cool. It turns out he lives in the other area
Elders area, so we handed him over to them and he's going to meet with them
next week. Then, Me and Elder Hales met a woman in the street. She has a 7 and
8 year old kids. On Friday night, when me and other Sano were back together we
met with her and gave her a chapel tour and she really liked it. We are excited
to keep meeting with her. Then that night we went visited our Ward
Mission leader, he has four little kids. They're such a great and strong family
in the gospel. We watch the restoration with them and then asked them how the
restoration has blessed their family, and they all shared their thoughts. It
was super awesome. We asked them if they there was anyone they felt needed the
gospel in their lives. One of them said I have a friend who’s 19 year old son
just died in a car accident. We scheduled a time to go back to their house and
practice how to share the gospel with their friend, then hopefully we can
schedule a time to meet this friend. We were super excited about that. I don't know
if I told you but last week, I did a baptismal interview for the Sisters
investigator. In a month, there twenty-one-year-old investigator who goes to
the local College, she read the whole book of Mormon in a month. It was super
awesome. Out of the blue I got asked to baptize her, and so it was super cool,
I got to baptize her on Saturday night. It was a super spiritual baptismal
experience. She is super awesome and super strong and it was super cool I was
able to help out with it. Then Sunday, she was confirmed, and we had one of our
investigators named Jean came to church. He's a super super cool 17 year old
who has a very hard life. He works and provides for himself, and works everyday
after school and on the weekends. Luckily, yesterday he had time off and was
able to come to church and he had a really good experience. We were sitting in gospel
principles class and all of a sudden a guy in our Ward walked into our room and
knew our investigator. They were friends from middle school and reconnected,
and now we have a very good Fellowshiper to help our investigator, and he's
going to be the member at the lessons. And then last night we met this super
cool guy at the train station. We are contacting over there. He's a 25 year old
dude who runs Ultra marathons and he stopped at the train station to rest. He
is training to go to the Sahara Desert in Africa to run an ultramarathon, which
is 250 km. I'm not sure how many miles that is. He was super pumped to meet us.
His name is Jeter, like Derek Jeter. He was super pumped and we set up to meet
with him tomorrow. So, we're going to meet with him tomorrow. Saturday night we
also watch the face-to-face event with our Ward; the one with Dallin H Oaks and
M Russell Ballard. It was in Chinese and was really neat. It was super cool to
hear their responses to those questions. Today, we are going to go to an
all-you-can-eat buffet after we go to the doctor. Then, we're going to chill
and get ready for the week. I love you all. Thanks for all the love and
support. I hope everyone is doing well. It's super cool to see the pictures of
Sadie's blessing. I hope Grandma and Grandpa Henderson or doing well and
Grandma Madsen. I'll be praying for them. I hope you all have a good week!!
Bye Bye
The doctor said "wow the tissue of you foreigners is a lot stronger than us Asians" haha my skin had grown to it and he had to rip it off.
