Week 7!

I'll get my flight plans this Friday!! I'm the travel leader since my last name is C. This week was all good！I have been having a bit of a cough but it's all good. Thanks mom for the care package of cough medicine stuff. 

Yesterday we got to hear from ELDER HOLLAND. THE LEGEND. He is like the most loving person. He talked about how the greatest tool we've ever been given in this dispensation is the Book of Mormon. The integrity of this church stands on the Book of Mormon. It's a do or die stand with the restored gospel/truthfulness of the Book of Mormon. God expects us to read, love, and embrace the Book of Mormon. He then gave us some advice as missionaries - 1. Be the best you can be. 2. Be yourself 3. Be the best self you can be 4. Give all your glory to God. In Alma 26:8 it talks about how the blessing we have is to be the instruments in the hands of God! So the question is: What kind of instrument are you going to be? If you were to go to a surgeon for a life or death situation, you'd want him to have the best tools possible right? God's ability to spread his work is dependent on his tools! Missionary work is hard because salvation is not a cheap or easy thing. Everyone's salvation goes through Gethsemane, it cost Christ everything so it's okay if it costs us something. In verse 11 it talks about how "my heart is brim with joy, and I will rejoice in my God." Missionary work is really...really...really hard but I have never had so much joy. 

Non spiritual stuff:

We did service last night and there's this part where we have to fold this giant gray mat. So half of us are lined up on one side about to pull it across and when we start folding it I have to start holding down my skirt so it doesn't fly up. One Elder in my district was running so fast next to me that I slipped!!!! I tried to get up but they kept running so I was being buried by the mat...so I just laid down on my stomach and just died there. Even when they noticed, stopped pulling, and Sis. Kim came to help me I just laid there giving up.

I might need you to send me a flash drive with music and some Mormon messages that are in Chinese and English cause Annie Brinkerhoff (from Jr. high) is in Taiwan and that's what she recommended. 

Love,

趙姐妺

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Sister Tiffany Chao

Taiwan Taipei Mission
4/F, #24, Lane 183
Jin Hua Street
Da-an, Taipei 106
Taiwan