Today we attended the Beijing China and Shanghai China International Districts combined conference. These are the two Church districts in China. The meeting was held at BYU. It was a very spiritual and informative meeting. President Steven L. Toronto, president of the Beijing district, spoke to us as well as Robert Lewis, president of the China International District branch. Those preparing to go to China as teachers sang a choir number, "I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go." Lugene gave a very nice closing prayer.
Those of us who will be living in Ji'nan are part of the Beijing district. There are about 15 expatriate members of the Church in Ji'nan who meet on Sunday for their meetings under the direction of a yet to be designated group leader. As we understand it they meet in one of the apartments where we will be living. Quite often after the meeting, they move to one of the other apartments for a pot-luck luncheon.
The theme for the conference was taken from Alma 37:6-7. ". . . by small and simple things are great things brought to pass; and small means in many instance doth confound the wise. And the Lord God doth work by means to bring about his great and eternal purposes; and by very small means the Lord doth confound the wise and bringeth about the salvation of many souls." This scripture emphasizes the powerful influence we can have on the Chinese by being good examples. It was emphasized again that we cannot talk with them about the Church, but we can influence them by the way we live our lives.
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