Taiwan Taipei Mission: October 2017

I HIT MY YEAR MARK ON MY MISSION AND I DON'T KNOW HOW I FEEL.

OUR PHONE IS BROKEN AND IT WON'T SEND ANY TEXT MESSAGES. It's okay though because I think we are going to get a new one today??? *fingers crossed* also this guy next to me is smoking and it's making me cough so maybe if I evil eye him he'll understand that I am trying to communicate the word of wisdom to him. He just coughed....he needs the gospel.

Anyways, the weather is finally cooling down here in Taiwan which is a huge blessing because I honestly never thought it would cool down and that I would just be a melting French fry out here in Taiwan. I now wear jackets basically everyday and I'm just thinking back to when I was in training and I wore three jackets cause I was cold hahahhaa oh the memories.

This week:

Wow this week felt really long but it also was so fast?? I don't even know what happened...I have the worst memory. Training miracles are seriously a thing it was so cool to see how willing and hard working my trainee is. It helped me realize how much I have changed on my mission, I remember when I first got to Taiwan and I literally did not talk at all...for probably three months hahaha. The missions are truly such a blessing because as we are serving other people, God still blesses us individually and helps us become more like the person we are meant to be. So cool.

This week we were supposed to meet with Mendy but she accidentally slept in, but in that time that we were supposed to meet with her we were able to find two really cool people! We had gotten to the college campus about half an hour earlier than we expected and so we decided to go to a 7/11 and make some calls and maybe contact some people in there. There was this lady that sat next to me that had some piercings and was just kind of looking at us...so in my mind I"m like oh man she made eye contact with me...that means I have to talk to her. So we start talking and I figure out that she's also a Christian and knew a little bit about our church. We ended up just quickly sharing the first lesson and setting up to meet with her again so that was super cool and such a big miracle. Then we hurried and rushed to meet Mendy and it turned out she wasn't there and so we were about to leave the college campus when we pass by this girl and we just say a simple "hiiiii" and she responded so positively that I was like....oh man I have to talk to her too then. So we talk to her about who we are and just do a simple contact and then when I tried setting up with her she didn’t have a lot of time to meet with us and so I was like … well do you have time right now? She did and so we just met with her and shared a little bit about why we were on missions and the book of Mormon. It was awesome!!

Nonspiritual thoughts:

oh man what didn't happen this week. I almost got hit by a scooter

. I'm fine. I just am still living up to my almost getting hit every year by a car (since I almost hit by a school bus when I was a first grader in Elementary school) it was exciting.

Also we made dumplings at a member’s house and I felt so ashamed on how ugly my dumplings were....I should've practiced more. But they were edible so that was the upside.

Our phone has just decided to give up on life and so sometimes people can't really hear us when we talk on the phone so I've just been screaming into the phone and they're like "you're whispering" so it's been a yelling game for the past two days.

Oh yeah the elders in our district hid my bike and only left my bike seat so I flipped their bikes.