After communicating with one of our ward members, Alan, for over a year via the internet, Ren Jian Sheng came to Houston in July. They had met face to face previously, but just three days after her arrival, they decided to get married. A month later she decided to get baptized, and requested that I speak at her baptism. Her English isn't super, and he doesn't speak Chinese, but it works for them! I had the priviledge of getting to know her quite well between their marriage and her baptism. We became fast friends since I was the first person she met in America that could speak Chinese. I was nervous speaking in Chinese, but it was such an awesome feeling to be there. It reminded me so much of my mission. She is so humble and sweet.
The day before she got married, she and I went to an art gallery in downtown Houston. On the drive and told her about eternal marriage and how it's different. She said she wanted to get married in the temple. I told her that she could only go there a year after she got baptized. She said then, that she wanted to be baptized, and I told her generally what all that entailed but she was so willing and excited! So sweet!! She is a professor in China and can't retire for another few years, so she went back to China the day after she got baptized for the next semester. Alan, meanwhile, has to stay here and work, but we started having chinese classes at our house, so he's learning chinese. What fun!
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