Happy Thanksgiving! 感恩节!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!! We hit our month mark on Saturday!! We have a month left here :D How was your guys' Thanksgiving? Ours was really good! We got to hear from Elder Andersen so it was really nice! He brought his grandchildren and they all said Happy Thanksgiving and they made us all cards! 

I really liked that he talked about how in 1 Corinthians 12 it says that no part of the body is more important than the other. For ex. The foot is no greater than the head etc. We are all a part of God's work, we just have to do our best and God will do the rest. He also talked about how the testimony of Christ, the Book of Mormon, and the Restoration will be transmitted to all good people despite the language or cultural difference. God is "preserving you from day to day, by lending you breath, that ye may live and move and do according to your own will." The goodness of our Heavenly Father and His Son is incalculable , He will never stop blessing you, and He will consecrate your afflictions for your GAIN. 

We had the opportunity to do some amazing service here! Service is something close to my heart, especially when it involves giving to people that have less than we do! We had the opportunity to make 359,000 meals!!! How amazing is that???? The amount you can do when you get a bunch of people to work together for a great cause! 

​We also taught one of our investigators about the apostasy and the restoration, I recited the first vision and when people are right -- you can totally feel the Spirit so strongly when you talk about Joseph Smith! She said that basically she felt like she needed to believe it! 

Nonspiritual stuff:

So we tried out an activity where we were knocking on doors and contacting people at a bus stop (not real people, we are still in the MTC so all we get to practice on is each other and our teachers). Anyways, we were talking to our teacher during the knocking on doors activity and he was pretending to be this investigator who thought he was a good person who didn't need any "saving". So I tried to muster up some Chinese in the moment (cause Gao Dixiong (Gao Brother) is a legend and I was nervous) and I tried to say every person needs to be saved. BUT ME BEING WHO I AM, I MIXED UP THE TONE AND I SAID EVERY PERSON NEEDS WINE. We figured out what happened later, but he didn't stop laughing and he told literally everyone.

Also, we were going to teach a lesson on the Plan of Salvation, so I was practicing my parts to talk about Adam and Eve. Luckily this was when I was just practicing by myself and Sister Kim, BUT ME BEING WHO I AM (plus being sleepy) KEPT MIXING UP ADAM AND EVE WITH SATAN AND THE AFTERNOON. Clearly you can tell how well my week went.

The church is launching their Christmas event! It's called "Light the World" and I challenge you all to do it! It's basically doing different types of service until Christmas "In 25 ways. Over 25 days." They have really nice videos and stuff that go along with each day and there are suggestions on what you could do! Over 374,000 people are joining in, so why not try it out??? Here's the site" https://www.mormon.org/?cid=HP_FR_25-11-2016_dMIS_fmorg_xLIDyL1-A_

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Love,
Sister Chao

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Sister Tiffany Chao

Taiwan Taipei Mission

4/F, #24, Lane 183

Jin Hua Street

Da-an, Taipei 106

Taiwan

Sister Colombel and I have the same birthday!

Week 4 is done!

This week seemed to fly by! At first Sister Kim and I felt a bit discouraged since one of our lessons didn't go as planned. We were asked to teach a less active member (aka it was still one of our teachers) but we only had 20 minutes to prepare a lesson with minimal information. But like I always say, God always provides a way. Sometimes your lessons won't go the way you want, but as long as the Spirit is with you in the lesson the people will get something out of it.

Yesterday's devotional was awesome!!!!! I love devotionals! We had the opportunity to hear from Brent H. Nielson of the Seventy and his wife. Sister Nielson talked about trusting the Lord. She said that Heavenly Father has been preparing us our whole lives. We just have to trust Heavenly Father and trust that He will help us remember the things we need to in the very moment you need it. Elder Nielson talked about how there has never been a better time to live than today! He also pointed out three main things: 

1. He whom the Lord calls, the Lord qualifies.

2. When you're on the Lord's errand, you are entitled to His help! - "We have no fear!"  if you have fear, faith disappears. "Move forward with faith!" "Don't you know thy Savior is with thee?"

3. "Remember Lott's Wife" - Elder Holland. Don't look back! With the gospel we always look forward! This is a gospel of forgiveness, of repentance, and of always looking forward. 

And OFFICIALLY we have no lice cause the bug is not a lice :D

Love,

Sister Chao