Taiwan Taipei Mission: Temple Day!

This week was long since we didn't have pday till today, but we had the awesome opportunity to go to the temple this morning!! I love the temple, it just renews the spirit and ahhh... it's just so cute and small here inside the temple.

This week was pretty good! We had the awesome opportunity to meet with an English class student named Marie. It turns out she was pretty prepped to hear our message because her daughter is actually a member of our church in America! She was in Taipei a couple weeks ago and had been walking when she noticed an English flyer on the ground. She picked it up and saw that two Elders had accidentally dropped it on the ground. She noticed that one was American and one was Taiwanese, she was so touched that someone from her own country had decided to serve a mission. She then came to our English class and now she's an investigator!

We were also able to give Yang Kai Qing a baptismal date! We are so excited for her!! She had previously not wanted baptism at all and was unsure of why she would since she only half believed in God. It turns out she had an awesome experience with prayer that had made her have more faith and really want to start reading the Book of Mormon and come to church. She had been walking at night when she got lost and she didn't have any cell service, she then remember prayer and decided to pray to Heavenly Father about what to do. She said that she felt calm afterwards and decided to keep walking and eventually she found her way home and her phone started working! She is so willing to keep commitments and try to see if our message is true!

We also just had Easter (although it's not really celebrated here), how awesome is that? Sometimes we forget the true meaning of Easter and we think of the Easter bunny or chocolate, but it's really about the resurrection of Christ. What does that mean to us? Because Christ was resurrected, we all too will be resurrected. Because Christ lives, during our hardest trials we will be able to rely on Him. Because He lives, death is not a sad thing and it is not a permanent ending! Here's the new video from our church for Easter all about the prince of peace AKA Christ! https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/topics/easter?lang=eng

Nonspiritual stuff:

This time last year I would have never thought I would be in Taiwan. Especially last night it hit me when Sister Chang and I went LA finding. We sat down to say a prayer when I noticed that this old man was riding on a ripstick in a continuous figure eight behind us or when we were riding our bikes and we saw a guy on a motor scooter with a special backpack that had a cat inside that I realize I am really in Taiwan.

So we went to Ximen last p-day and Sister Chang and I decided to it would be fun to buy these little iron man legos since they were pretty cheap. LO AND BEHOLD WHEN YOU TAKE OFF THE MASK OF IRON MAN...IT IS ANOTHER IRON MAN MASK. HOW.