Taiwan Taipei Mission: 新 to the竹

Hello everyone!!! It's getting warmer out here in Taiwan! I am so thankful for the wind here in 新竹 (Hsinchiu) because it is a great blessing when it's hot here. This week seems like it flew by wow!!!

This past week we had zone conference and we talked basically about what we talked about in MLC, the question that still gets me is "what would it take?" What would it take to do...... and it really makes you think. Am I willing to do what it takes? We also talked about having faith. I think this is something that has been covered a lot, but it's something so important because it's definitely developed throughout the mission. It takes a lot of faith to go out the door and talk to people who have no Christian background. It takes a lot of faith to keep preaching when things aren't going the way we want. President Jergensen asked us to do an introspection and ask ourselves, what does the Lord think of my faith? Is it sufficient? As we act on small things of faith we are able to help our faith grow. It is kind of like the story where Lehi is in the wilderness with his family and they have the Liahona (a ball type compass thing that would show them the direction they needed to go to make it to the promised land), in order for the Liahona to work they had to have faith that the spindles would point to where they needed to go. The interesting thing is they had to have faith right then and there, it's not like they had Google maps like us and could see the entire journey from a birds eye view, but rather was having faith that the direction was sufficient enough.

何姊妹 is also doing really good!! We met with her twice this past week and we shared the last bit of the commandments, it was super cool to hear how her prayers were answered. She had really wanted to go to church but she was scared her ex husband would be angry with her going. She had been praying that she would have the opportunity to go and then she decided to go and she said that the rest of the week went super smoothly. It really helped her understand that our Heavenly Father will test our faith before we see the miracles. She had been praying about her money issues cause she wants to go back for more schooling, we talked about tithing that night which helped her out!! She said she was a bit unsure about it but that she would try. We then asked her how she felt about her baptism date and she said she felt super peaceful about it and so we are super excited for her and are hopefully going to be able to move it earlier!

張姊妹 is doing good too! We shared about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We talked a lot about change and the Atonement. She said that before she had met her member friend she was really focused on earning a lot of money, having the biggest apartment, the most expensive stuff but she realized that that leaves you empty afterwards. Family is super important to her now! So we talked a lot about the Holy Ghost and baptism and focusing really on the things that are important. She had told us earlier at English class (cause now she takes her children to our class too) that she had been reading the scriptures and it's been helping her feel more peaceful this week.

Nonspiritual thoughts:

Sister Liu killed a giant cockroach again lol. second big one in the apartment so far. it tried hiding under our couch but she got it.

We started doing this cross guard thing for this elementary school near here (for service) and we get to wear these florescent yellow vests and there are all these children FAKING THAT THEY WANT TO CROSS THE STREET I was like omg you are all so naughty. Trying to act like you want to cross the street and there's like 15 of them and some go to the edge of the sidewalk and I am like YOU CAN'T CROSS YET. so naughty.