Taiwan Taipei Mission: Second to last!

WHAT IS GOING ON! ONLY ONE MORE PDAY?! SO SCARY

Anyways, this past week something crazy happened....We got put in a trio!! Sister Jensen in zhubei was training a 本地人 (Taiwan native) that was waiting to go to America and so she got put into a trio after her baby left! So now we cover both areas!

Miracles:

We set 陳先生 and 郭小姐 on date!! We had explained the plan of salvation and how to truly know what is from heavenly father and what is not. It was such a cool lesson and then right after that we ran over to teach Judy and her husband! We ate dinner with them and it was super cool to hear how she was looking for a religion and she wants to understand.

We also met with 彭小姐 this past week and it was super cool! We met at a member’s house and we shared the full restoration and helped her connect the dots on our church. She has absolutely no Christian background so it was cool to talk about Christ with her! She then came to church this past week and she loved it!

We met with Linda at a members house and it was a super powerful lesson. We had shared about obedience and the story of king Benjamin from alma 22 where he is willing to give up everything he had (which if you think about is a lot of stuff considering HE IS A KING) in order to receive this happiness. We talked about what we were willing to give up in order to gain this happiness. Then we brought up the word of wisdom and she was super willing to keep the word of wisdom and she came to church too!!

We also met with this 同學 and shared the plan of salvation. We had this super cool analogy I learned in training (thanks wml) where when we leave heavenly fathers presence it's like a parent sending their child to school. Sure the kid might be like WHY and yeah they might face some homework and tests but it'll be good for them. Its just like us coming to earth, we leave heavenly father and sure we will face some trials and challenges but it'll be good for us. Just like parents still love their children and help them with their homework they sure won't do their homework for them cause then how will the child learn? our Heavenly Father loves us and will help us through our trials, but as much as he loves us he won't take away our trials because we need them to learn. In the afternoon parents expect their children to come back home and if they don't they're super worried, our Heavenly father is waiting for us and going to the celestial kingdom after this life is like us going home. He is patiently and lovingly waiting for all of us to come home to him .

Nonspiritual thoughts:

Omg we tried biking to Zhubei a couple days ago and it was SO WINDY. Like beyond windy. We have to hike over a bridge and it usually takes us around 25 minutes to get to Zhubei but cause it was so windy it took us 45 minutes. I swear I was biking my normal 3/7 but I was barely moving and if I stopped pedaling I would fall over. Then we had to bike up the Xinfeng hill and that this is a mountain jeez it was huge. I was so pooped and it was only 12 pm.

Sister Jensen hates snacks and she's like I'll only eat cheesecake or molten lava cake and then for language study we go to family mart and look around for a snack and lo and behold there it is.....Cheesecake HHAHAHAHHAHA.

I obliterated this mosquito at sister Jensen's apartment in Zhubei, it was flying towards me and I smacked my hands together and basically erased it from history. There was this weird bug by our sink in Xinzhu and I was like sister Jensen kill it so she smashed it with her thumb and was like if it wasn't dead already it is now cause it literally disintegrated and then I was like yeah it died you literally went hulk smash on it.

This part Wednesday we were doing a fashion show for our English class with the kids and there were so many cockroaches on the wall hahaha we would hear the child scream and sister Jensen would just go over and smash it with her shoe. But her shoes are like literally breaking in half and her big toe is breaking through so we keep making jokes that one day half of her shoe is gonna be left in the sidewalk.

We also taught our class the song “who let the dogs out” cause we were teaching The question word who and it was hilarious seeing them sing the song HAHAHAH We asked if anyone knew this song and this one mom raises her hand and starts laughing out loud every time the children sang it.