Dear TaoYuan, I will compare thee to a summers day................
FIRE.
Oh my gosh every single time we go out the door we find people who want the gospel!!! It is impossible to explain how many incredible, prepared people there are here in TaoYuan! I love them all so much. We are currently teaching about 40 people and needless to say we hardly have time for dinner. Instead of the usual hour, we have a comfy 12 minutes--> teach, bike, park, run, buy the food, shove food in mouth, helmet, bike, teach. We are trying our best to give every single person love and attention. Serving in TaoYuan has taught me a lot about how in life you've gotta choose the things you are not going to do, prioritize and make the most of every single moment Heavenly Father gives you to be alive on this earth. i luv de meesh
this weeks happenings:
1. I have a new companion! I will miss Sister Cullen tons but I am so stoked to be companions with the most crunchy-granola, sweet, kind, and hilarious---> SISTER JENSEN! She loves coconut oil and has carried a ginormous bottle of it her whole mission. Needless to say, we get along great.
2. Sister Jensen got bit by some unknown specimen each night for the first 3 nights she got to TaoYuan. The 3rd bite was on her eye and made her eye swell up like a golf ball! And then on Sunday morning she lost her voice completely. On our way to church, a woman stopped us as we were biking and wanted to talk to us about religion. Seeing Sister Jensen in the state she was in and her voice gone, she started telling us all these Chinese Medicine remedies we could do at home. The one she was most passionate and urgent about was the onion sock. Here's what you do: 1) buy the onion 2) cut the onion 3) apply the onion to arch of foot 4) make onion pieces stick to arch of foot 5) apply sock over the onion 6) go to sleep 7) wake up and be healed in all senses of healing. Anyone willing to try? Let us know how it goes. We didn't have adequate amounts of onion....
3. TWO FAMILIES randomly showed up to church yesterday and we have a total of 9 investigators partake of the sacrament with us. Afterward every person said something along the lines of the peace they felt during the sacrament or how they had never been to a church service before or how they felt energized and ready to go start the week ahead of them. I LOVE THESE PEOPLE! Their hearts are so pure and kind. Just blessed. Heavenly Father always leads His children to Him when the time is right.
4. We went to go visit a member named Wen Cai Yuan to do a mission plan with her. She has been struggling a lot lately after a divorce and her husband taking everything. We went over to share with her about faith and do the mission plan. As we were sharing, it was so incredible to see the change in her face. By the end of chatting with her there were 3 of her friends she wanted to share the gospel with. One of them was her next door neighbor! So naturally SIster Jensen and I were like uh well let's go visit them right now!! We are planning a special Mother's day sacrament meeting service for 5/14 and encouraged Wen Jm to invite them to it. She was so nervous but we prayed with her, told God our plan, went over there, and the family of 7 said they would come to church on Mother’s Day! YOU SHOULD'VE SEEN WEN JM'S FACE hahaha she was so surprised and we were just like, "homie this is the life"
5. Moira 遊, Dai Wei Xuan, 莊姐妹, 胡書美， 周姐妹, and the 謝家庭 (Xie Family) have all set baptism dates and it is so awesome to hear them progressing in faith and loving the gospel. We have been blessed with really incredible investigators here in NanKan and I love seeing how the Lord prepares people and gives them answers. Pray for them! They are all so amazing!
6. Also at Missionary Leadership Counsel this past Friday two different missionaries came up to me to tell me that two women named 吳姐妹 that I taught with previous companions were baptized! It is seriously the happiest thing to hear about people and what they’ve done to repent and change and come unto Christ! One of them specifically was a woman who stood us up 7 TIMES when I was training Sister Rhynard in XinAn. She told us she had really bad anxiety and depression. When we finally did meet her she was so prepared! But she told us she didn't think she could get baptized because she couldn't give up smoking. Well she did it! I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW STOKED I WAS TO HEAR SHE GOT BAPTIZED! The Atonement of Jesus Christ is soo real.
So basically that's it today for the NanKan Newsly (weekly news?). I have so much faith in our Savior Jesus Christ and I love seeing other people's faces when they witness the miracles of God. They are so real.
The only reason that miracles will stop are because faith has stopped.
NEVER GIVE UP NEVER SURRENDER.
I love you all!
prayers
blessings
xoxox sista 莫
Last day with SISTER 孔<3
My new comp Sister Jensen. i luv her
