Asian Bias

July 27, 2015



This week, I have rediscovered my intense love for the Asian culture.
We met a Chinese family at a ward function who were delighted when we
offered to come share more of our message about Jesus Christ. We
decided to take a young returned missionary name Julia who served in
Taiwan just in case there was a language barrier. That turned out to
be perfect because Brother Huang's 26 yr old nephew charly was there
and he and Julia hit it off! she is taking him to the singles ward
next week. Brother Huang thinks he is a nice person but wants to be
nicer like his mormon neighbors. He thinks he can't go to church
because he drinks coffee but he is willing to take more lessons. He
has the hugest smile in the world and is just a very happy person. He
was asking why we don't drink tea and coffee and his nephew piped in
and said in his thick accent "Unker, it has Caffeine! (pronounced
CafAYeen)". I felt like I was teaching Daniel Wang all over again,
they were so funny!
   The second best lesson this week was with Taylor, the adorable 9
yr. old we're teaching. We were going over the 10 commandments an when
we got to number 3 and talked about what it meantto not take the
Lord's name in vain, he looked at his 7 yr old sister Jenneca and said
"Um, Jenneca, sorry to bring you up in this but you REALLY need to
work on that one." I love children's honesty. They are evidence that
the gospel doesn't have to be complicated and it's really not. It is
simple and we choose to make it complex. All of us will be happier if
we simply choose to have faith, repent continually, be baptized,
receive the gift of the holy ghost, and endure to the end. By those
steps we accept the atonement of Jesus Christ into our lives. We can
never earn salvation but we can definitely give our all to show Christ
we are grateful for what he did and that wee willing to follow the
commandments!
  Last quote I'd like to include is from an old man's talk in church
yesterday. "You are what you do, and you do what you choose. If you
don't like who you are then change what you do!"
  I invite all of you this week to choose one thing you want to change
and then make a plan to change it. Choose someone to hold you
accountable (along with asking God for his help) and I promise you
will be able to change and become even better!

Love,
Sister Pearson

P.S. It continues to be weird to not only have companions who don't
pressure me to eat things that are bad for me, but to be the only one
who isn't allergic to sweets and that has to take one for the team
sometimes when we feel we'll offend if we don't accept what people are
giving us!