Mini missionaries

This week has been so cool! On Friday, we got a mini missionary.  He was a seventeen-year-old Priest named Jake Samuels from Merriwa Ward.  He was so cool!  Ha ha. We had so many adventures. I wish we would have had more spiritual stuff happen, but he got a taste of what missionary life is really like. It started out rough because he really didn't want to be a mini missionary. However, once he got to know us, we were tight and had so much fun.

We had a lesson from a recently returned missionary the other day. He went to Ghana and he sounded just like a missionary - the accent and all. Anyways, I was reflecting and I think my English has actually gotten less formal since being a missionary! Ha ha - too many islanders influencing me. You'll see in forty-five weeks.

Wyman is all set to be baptized on Saturday. I'm so excited! He is so good and set for the gospel. He will be a great member. He is thirty, but looks twenty-three so we are gonna lie on his baptismal records so he can serve a mission! Ha ha. Just kidding.

We were teaching Alex the other day... well, Elder Liang was teaching Alex in Chinese the other day - which didn't really work out for a few reasons.
1)  He was teaching in Chinese, so the double testify system for missionaries wasn't available.
2)  Alex loves to argue... ish.  Not really.  He has really good questions and the way Elder Liang and Elder Lowe teach is by saying they will answer the questions overtime as he gains faith, which is fine, but they don't give Alex enough credit.  He is so smart and really understands gospel truths well.  He just wants to be sure the church is true before he is baptized.

As I was thinking about all this, a thought or impression came to my mind.  In my patriarchal blessing, there is a line that says that Heavenly Father will prepare people here for me to teach and I will be the only one who can touch their lives.  I think that my teaching style and testimony are exactly what Alex needs.  It sounds a bit prideful, but I mean it in the most sincere way.  I feel that the spirit brought that line to my remembrance as I listened to the teaching.  I am confident that Alex will be baptized while I am here.

Ha ha, a funny story about the mini missionary... we were closing the mini mission and all the mini missionaries were bearing their testimonies and telling stories about what we did. Ours was talking about personal study and how cool it was, but then he went off on a tangent and said when we came together to discuss what we had studied I said Lehi's dream (which, in missionary language, means I was sleeping).  I was joking, obviously, but he didn't explain that to the parents and leaders that were there, so I had a lot of explaining to do.  Ha ha, all goods though.  I miss that kid.

I love you all.
Love Elder Jamison