Taiwan Taipei Mission: The week of meetings

This week was full of meetings, from exchanges to a zone conference. But you learn SO MUCH. Where to even begin? Last Monday was so fun, our Ward Mission Leader took us to Yilan! By us I mean the 思源 elders and us. We left around 12:30 and made the drive to Yilan! It took about an hour, but then we stopped at this museum and it was talking about the history and agriculture of Yilan. Then we went to this beach that was nearby and because it was hotter than none other we went and got some shaved ice!! Overall super fun.

We then taught a lesson to Bai Xia Nian and helped her prepare a small testimony for her baptism and she isn't as scared as she thought! She's getting baptized on the 26th so fingers crossed it all goes well!!

We also went on exchanges this past week and it was super weird cause instead of going to Taoyuan we ended up going back to Yonghe! (which is where I went on exchanges when I was in Xizhi) One cool miracle that we saw was when we went to go visit this less active to give her this read along book of mormon pamphlet thing and our plan originally was to just drop it off with whoever was home. Right when we were about to do that, she rides up behind us on her bike and invites us in! We had a sit down little lesson with her brother and then he committed to going to English Class!!

On Wednesday we traveled back super fast to go visit the Xiao Family (the family we met last week) and we did the restoration with them! The six year old daughter asked so many questions about Christ and the lesson went really well! We gave them book of Mormons and then set up to meet with them later that week. We met with them and the mom was talking about how the dad would secretly read the Book Of Mormon by himself!! She also talked about how great it was to go to church because it had been a long time since she had really gone and she forgot the good feelings it gave her.

Then we had English class and there was a new girl named Zoy (16 years old) in my class. I had figured out that she had gotten a Book Of Mormon from the Sanchong missionaries but that she had never finished it and wasn't meeting with them. After sharing about really listening to the Gospel and watching a Mormon Message I ran over to her and wanted to see what she thought about it. I asked if she would be willing to listen more and she hesitated at first and was like...I don't know if my mom would allow it, she's very traditional. I asked her if she wanted my help asking her mom and she still was unsure, so I asked her...if your mom were to say yes would you have interest in hearing more? She then confidently said yes and so I was like..okay I will help you talk to your mom if this is what you want. We see her mom come back to pick her up and they are about to leave so Zoy hurries and makes eye contact with me and I run over to say goodbye to her mom. I started off just complimenting her daughter and how great her English was and then I started doing a short one minute power lesson about how Christ helps us in life and how He can help us achieve our goals and give our life purpose. I then ask if it's okay to meet later and her mom is like what if we came early next week cause you will talk about church stuff right? and I'm like yes. Then her mom thinks about it for a good ten seconds and then says okay! Literally such a big miracle!!

On Thursday after Zone Conference we met with this family that attends the English ward but lives in Danfeng, it turns out this lady is the one who referred Joanne to us!! Joanne is one of her students and so she started sharing the gospel with her. It was super good to have this dinner with their family and to have Joanne there because the family was able to support us in having her come to our ward and really developing a relationship with our ward (she loves going to the JinHua ward already) so Joanne is doing good!

Xie Ting Yu is also doing really well!!! She is really set on being baptized on the 26th also, she talks about how being baptized will help her become closer to God and allow her to be a disciple of Christ. She even testified to this other girl who has a goal for the 26th (Chen Jia Yi). Both of them came up with us all the way to JinHua to go to Stake Conference!!

Nonspiritual thoughts:

This week was full of funny things that I just can't remember right now okay....I am really trying to remember...like REALLY TRYING TO REMEMBER.

did anything funny happen this week? aw man.

We got this referral from the Elders a couple weeks ago and she finally answered and we set her up, but we had no idea what she looked like and she had previously blocked us on our phone so it was a finding game of asking people if they were her and them being like