We are asking for your prayers for the people and the missionaries in Taiwan as they will be in the path of a Super Typhoon today and tomorrow.
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Noel and Jess
Thursday, July 7, 2016
Tuesday, July 5, 2016
WEEK 15: 奇迹。 MIRACLES!
Ni haooo and 3-months-no-see!?
I cannot believe it's been 3 months! Time be fly. This week was so amazing and I don't have the words in English or Chinese to explain how great this week was. MEH!
I cannot believe it's been 3 months! Time be fly. This week was so amazing and I don't have the words in English or Chinese to explain how great this week was. MEH!
This week started in the IＮCＲEＤIＢＬE JiuFen. JIUFEN SO FUN!!!! (JiuFen is pronounced joe-fun) This is like the Asian equivalent of Hydra, Greece. Except you can't compare them. Wow okay so our friend named Yo (yes his name is literally Yo, coolest name, coolest person) rented a car to take us to JiuFen because it's an hour away. So we drive along the freeway until we get to the ocean! Then you got the ocean in front of you and you look to the right and you see this unreal city built into the lush, green mountainside. And we were all like "uhhh is that JiuFen?!" YEP IT WAS JUIFEN. Literally no one was really saying anything because everyone was speechless. It was unbelievable. The pictures below do NOT do justice!! Then we climbed about a billion stairs to get up to the yeshi (night market) and it was sweet! Packed with people, new foods, amazing smells, unique souvenirs, and 50 kuai giant fresh fruit smoothies! I don't know the conversion but I do know that it was cheap enough for me to get 2... ;) JiuFen was life-changing. Easily one of the most surreal and unique places I have ever been. (miraculous!)
The next miracle happened on Wednesday when Sister Bradley and I were out finding in the pouring rain. We were talking to a college-aged girl on the side of the street when 2 middle-aged women came up to us and asked, "Hey, can we talk to you?" Sister Bradley and I were like, "WELL YEAH YA CAN!" When we were done talking with the college girl, we went with the two women to a bread shop where they bought us an assortment of bread. (the Taiwanese are the best) One of the woman named Chen told us in Chinese of couurrrssseee "My friend (her name is Mi) has been struggling a lot lately because of her husband. So she called me and we were on our way to visit her but then right when we turned the corner we saw you two and recognized you as "Shen de puren" (God's servants) and knew that you could help my friend."
Ummm WHAT? Sister Bradley and I turned to each other and both of our eyes were wide open with amazement and it was the one of the COOLEST THINGS EVER TO HAPPEN yet on my mission. We chatted with Chen and her friend for a while and then shared a scripture that has really helped me when I'm feeling mehh.
Alma 26:12
"Yea I know that I am nothing; as to my own strength I am weak; therefore I will not boast of myself, but I will boast of my God, for in His strength I can do all things."
I really love this verse. I have been able to carry conversations in Mandarin now without assistance with native Taiwanese and I can't tell you how true this verse is! Anything I am able to say is because of divine help. It's quite nice that we don't ever have to be alone in anything we do:)
I love you all and hope this next week is GREAT for you.
love you more than I love biking in the rain. which is a LOT.
bai bai!
sista mo
