Training Complete October 12, 2015

I'm officially just a junior companion! Training was an adventure, and I'm ready to start doing more work. This movecall I will be staying in Taiping and my new companion is Elder Chan from Canada! He's been out for just over a year and he's super chill. We're gonna do some great things here, I know it! This last week was one of my favorite weeks of the mission. We had a lot of great things happen. First of all, that buffet last pday was so amazing and was just as good if not better than the first time we went. I have learned to love sushi. I ate like 3 rolls of this smoked salmon sushi... soooo good. Then Wednesday we had our English class's Halloween party. As English leader (the least desirable calling) I was in charge of planning it, but it actually turned out pretty decent! English class is one of our best ways of finding new investigators, fun fact. Then Friday we had Alex's baptism! It was my first time baptizing someone! It was awesome even though I had to dunk him twice because the first time his knees came out of the water. Afterwards, Alex bore a powerful testimony but instead of closing in the name of Jesus Christ, he said, "any question?". Lol. Then General conference was awesome. All the missionaries had a room to ourselves and we all bought a bunch of snacks so it was awesome. Very few things are better than getting spiritually and physically fed at the same time. I loved so many talks and I especially enjoyed the first talk given by President Uchtdorf. I definitely think that sometimes I make my discipleship more complicated than it needs to be so that is something that I'm going to work on. I'm also gonna start ponderizing every week and I encourage all of you to as well! I also really liked the quote (I forgot who said it), "You don't need to prepare yourself to start becoming who God wants you to be". Seriously, general conference is such a blessing and such a great way to receive revelation! This week we've got a lot of work to do, gotta find some new investigators!!!

-Elder Poon