Sister Jenna Connell

Well I guess its time to welcome the year of the pig and welcome everybody back from their hometowns! Tet was good but I am glad everyone is back in the city. So real quick here is an update on our people: Chu Nghi is getting baptized this next week! I have never seen someone with so much faith in my life. We met him at the end of January and he has read the book of mormon 2 times, listened to all the hymns, quit smoking, and basically taught himself all the lessons! It definitely motivates me to become a little better as far as studies and faith and stuff go! He also stays at church all Sunday and attends 2 sacrament meetings. I am just so amazing at the faith that these people have and there are people like that out there who just don't know where the truth is! I am so excited for him! Also we met with the sweetest lonely guy named Chu Tuan! We sang I am a child of God to invite the spirit and he was getting all teary eyed and you could just feel the spirit. At the end he s...

So usually right around tet (lunar new year) time is so hard to do missionary work because everyone is working like crazy and then leaving the city to go to their hometown (the land of their fathers) ! But this week was fun cuz we were able to actually keep super busy! One of our investigators, Anh Phuc, is staying in the city for tet so has a lot of time to meet. But lately he has been struggling with coming to church. So last week we taught keep the sabbath day holy but he still didn't come. So this week we we taught him why we come to church by teaching him the atonement. It was such a powerful lesson and at the end he was like "Oh I understand now." and yesterday he was able to set up his schedule and come to church. I am so grateful for the atonement and the time that we have to reflect on how we can become more like Christ as we take the sacrament each week. Also we have this awesome investigator named Chu Nghi! He has been learning for 2 weeks and is already t...