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We have had another great week here in Fengyuan. Transfers this week but me and Elder Warner are staying together!

This week was filled with a lot of miracles. We set a couple more really solid baptism goals for next month and we are all very excited.  Thursday night we were on a street contacting and were talking with a guy when another man on his scooter came up and parked like 10 feet in front of us, and was just sitting there. At first I didn't think much of it but had the feeling I needed to go talk to him. So I went over and told him who we were and what we were doing. As I started talking to him I realized he was definitely waiting for me to come talk to him. At one point he just says "Can I ask you a question? Why is the world so unfair? Why is there so much heartache and difficulty?" 

At this point I just told him what I believe to be true, that God put each of us in a specific situation and everyone's is different. But one thing is true, GOD LOVES US. He knows what we need more than we know, and he knows what we can handle.  He won't give us a challenge we can't handle. The purpose of these trials is to learn, grow, and become better.  The gospel is a way to receive God's help through these problems. The spirit was very strong and I could tell he felt it. Nothing much came of the contact but it was a testimony builder to me. People in the world have problems such as these, and the Lord has chosen me to spread the message that helps people through the hardships of life.  Missionary service is a very precious and humbling experience. I love this work and the Lord.

This week I finished the Book of Mormon. It has been amazing to read the pages and to sincerely pray about them to affirm my testimony.  This Church is true and am so grateful for the opportunity to share about it!

Love you all!

母親節快樂 Happy Mother's Day!!

First of all Happy Mother's Day to my beautiful Mom and all the Mom's out there!  I know I would not be able to do this with out her and her example. She has taught me to alway put the Lord first, and trust in Him no matter what. I LOVE YOU MOM!

No better way to remember Mother's day and the women in my life than a couple experiences we had this week.  A couple weeks ago I talked about one night night we were on the way home and I felt like we needed to go back to a random house.  Well, we called them this week to meet and they said they were moving. So we helped them move! But no worries they moved into a place still in our area.  Afterwards we asked if we could meet and share a little bit the next day.  So it was the lady, Sister Du, and her 17 year old son, Harry. We had a great lesson and they committed to baptism!! The spirit was so strong, that the son just started to cry right in the middle of the lesson.  It was powerful.  I am grateful for the chance to see families like this make decisions for the better!

Another Mom and her 8 year old son that we have been meeting with really started to see how the Gospel was blessing their family and also committed to baptism! The Lord is preparing souls, and I have seen how much impact a Mother has on her Children.  I am so grateful for my beautiful mother!

I just can't express the gratitude I have for this church and our savior Jesus Christ.  The opportunity for second chances and for the opportunity to change.  I love my Savior, I love our Heavenly Father and I believe in them with all my heart. This is an improvement Gospel, a loving gospel, a learning gospel, a merciful gospel, and a happy gospel!

Love you all and happy Mother's Day. My pal li song from the skype also says hi to everyone!

Elder Henderson

 This is the kind family that hosted Elder Henderson when he called for Mother's Day.

The mission life is the best life!

The mission life is the best life. I absolutely love every second of it. I was telling Elder Warner last night that I feel like a completely different person from the first day I was in this area.  The gospel is all about becoming better and improving, I feel like spiritually I have grown so much through out my entire mission.  I have never tried so hard to be obedient and to listen to the prompting s of the spirit.  It is changing my life.  As i have done this I have drawn closer to the Lord and I have never been so happy in the work. We have seen more miracles than ever before.

This week we had a very cool experience.  Saturday morning we did everything as usual. As we were praying and leaving the door, i had a feeling to not leave the house as we normally do. I can tell you that I have been here for 2 and a half transfers and i have left the house the exact same way every single day. When we leave the house we have a choice to go left or right into town, and everyday we take the left. But for some reason, on Saturday, i knew we needed to turn right.  At the time I had no idea why.  But I knew the thought was not from me, we followed it and for the first 15 minutes of contacting out the door, we didn't really find anyone willing to talk to us.  After a bit we pulled into a 7/11 and right as i pulled in I stopped this couple leaving. I said hello to the lady, and it startled her super bad. She said that she had gone to the United States 20 years ago, and had been to Salt Lake and toured Temple Square. Yesterday she came to church and during the our Sunday School class she stood up and told a story,  about how she has wanted to come back to this church but has not been able to find it and when we found her she knew it was a sign from God.  I know the Lord is guiding the work, I would have never known that this was the day I needed to turn right out of the apartment complex if it weren't for the spirit! I love this work.

We have another investigator who we met two weeks ago and has a huge desire to repent and change his life.  Last week we shared with him the word of wisdom.  At first it startled him a little bit, He smokes two packs of cigarettes a day! We prayed about a member present and it worked perfectly.  An Active member had the same problem and gave him the exact encouragement he needed.  Our investigator Jason, came back the next day with a huge smile on his face and a big wad of GUM in his mouth! He is so awesome, the Lord gives strength to those who have the desire to change.

Sister Chen is still on track to get baptized on the 27th!!

This week I studied the talk "Act in all Diligence" by Elder Henry B. Eyring.  It is one of my favorite talks of all time.  Through his talk I have found and told the Lord this is one of the new mottos of my life: "When I find myself drawn away from my priesthood duties by other interests and when my body begs for rest, I give myself this rallying cry:

REMEMBER HIM

The Lord is our perfect example of diligence in priesthood service. He is our CAPTAIN. He CALLED us. He goes before us, He chose us to follow Him, and to bring others with us."

I love the Lord and know he is our SAVIOR. He is our LIGHT. 

"There is only one way to Salvation and that is through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" -Bruce R. McConkie

Love you all!! Have a great week!

Elder Michael Henderson

 Mikey says this is his favorite Taiwanese man of all time!!

This really is the lord's work.  Last October Elder Warner tracted into that lady in the red dress's house in the middle of no where. At that time her sister had just joined the church. As they were meeting she ran into some problems and has not been baptized yet, but Elder Warner got here and it is the member we went with hiking last weeks sister! Just a super small world!