Getting Ready for Chinese New Year!

View from McDonalds

View from third floor of McDonalds

This last week went pretty well! Since we’re in an area that didn’t have any recent existing investigators and little to no info about it, we’re basically starting fresh. Most everyday we are out talking to people on the street and committing them to baptism on a specific day. Many times we’ll teach people in McDonald’s, KFC, 7-11, and FamilyMart. One of the methods we use to start a conversation with the men is by calling them “handsome” – since, in general, you address people by their title and family name, we’ll just walk by random people and say, “Hey, shuai ge!”, which more or less translates to “Hey, handsome person!”. It’s kind of odd, when you think about it in English, but it works!

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