Taiwan Taipei Mission: Windy city of change

Transfer day!

my new companion, Sister Liu

Hello family!! This week has been a big change and I am not sure if I'm ready for it. It's definitely way out of my comfort zone but it's okay cause a challenge is always accepted. Basically we are finishing up 過年 and wow does the ward like to feed us or what but we were fed like none other. On Wednesday we get our transfer calls (so I already knew I was going to leave the area but I just didn't know where I was going to be leaving.) and usually they come in at like 12 in the afternoon, so I get ready to take a shower when I hear a OH MY GOSH THEY ARE HERE. So I run out of the bathroom (still clothed people ok) and there are our transfer sheets in a text message with a "find your name!!" and so we go onto this huge google drive full of files and names!! So we are quickly trying to find our names and then there I am...there my name is....it says that i am going to 新竹(new bamboo hahaha xinzhu) with Sister Liu (廖姐妹）who I had met before the mission in the Asian Ward and we are Sister Training Leaders!!! I AM SO NOT READY HAHAHAHA WE GO ON OUR FIRST EXCHANGE TOMORROW AND I AM LIKE I DON'T KNOW WHAT I AM DOING OR HOW TO GET ANYWHERE. But it's okay cause we have seen some awesome miracles already.

I got here on Thursday afternoon and all I heard was that there was some work to do in this area and so we got straight to it. Sister Liu and I had an AWESOME lesson on Friday night with this investigator named Linda. So she was previously kind of scared to set a baptismal date and so we were sharing the plan of salvation. We tried relating to school and how parents let their parents go to school even though their children might protest and may want to not do their homework, but the parents know that it's necessary in order for them to learn. Heavenly Father is that way with us, we go to the earth in order to learn and He knows we will have trials and maybe not want to have them but we must in order to learn. When the afternoon comes and parents expect their children to be home so does our Heavenly Father. He wants all of His children to come home and when they don't He is super scared and worried. It was a super powerful lesson and then we set a baptismal date with her. She was scared with her husband protesting her baptism and in her prayer she actually asked Heavenly Father to soften his heart and allow her to get baptized on her baptismal goal! Her prayer was super sweet and it was just SO AWESOME.

That was probably the biggest miracle of the week. They also had a baptism a couple days before I got here so that was cool. I didn't see the confirmation since we cover three wards I went with a different investigator to a different time ward (same building just switched orders of classes and stuff). Anyways I am excited to see how this area goes and what new things we can bring!!

Nonspiritual thoughts:

So our stake president loves us so much hahaha his wife and him just loved us missionaries. They actually treated us out two times in a row. We went to an all you can eat steak place and then our stake president was doing this massage thingy basically hitting Elder Chang with a stick. Then we played a game called ugly sweater.