Dying of heat!!!!

Hello!!! This week was awesome but SO HOT. I may be a wimp when it comes to heat, but Taiwan does not kid in the summer. It feels like a giant comforter has wrapped itself around me and decided to light on fire. I am so grateful for A/C, it has made life so enjoyable.

  

Thanks for all the birthday wishes!! This birthday was one of the weirdest but one of the best! My companion is amazing and made my birthday so special!! 

 

Also my district elders (six elders and us in the district) even surprised me with a cake during district meeting and I about died. Yeah they came in all sweaty and I was like wow and they were like wow it's hot outside. Then I realized it's because they biked all the way from Costco carrying a big cake in the bike. Lol They are so sweet.

 

白家庭 (Bai family) also surprised me, we met with them on my birthday and when I walked in I see a big happy birthday on their wall that 白妹妹 (Sister Bai) made. They then proceeded to walk out with a cake and they sang to me in Chinese and English. I may or may not have teared up a bit. Oh how I wish for their family to be sealed in the temple for eternity. Anyways, she is taking the lessons pretty well and she reset a baptism date, we are hoping to move it a bit earlier since we are almost done with the lessons. *fingers crossed*

My awesome companion also helped us find a mother who set up to meet with us this past week and the mom was so willing to hear about the restoration and she was looking for a place where her children could be happy and have a good environment to grow up in. She said she thinks she might have found what she was looking for.

We also met with Li Jia Ling (the amazing referral from Sister Hickenlooper and I's RC -- Gao Pei Chen) and she said she has been so happy since she's met with us and she told us some cool experiences of why she believes God exists. She is doing awesome and is finding so much happiness through the gospel. 

God literally provides, last night we had about an hour before a lesson and so we decided to go finding alongside this river in our area. There was this girl that I tried to talk to but she had her headphones in so I was like....ok....but then she passed us again and in my head I was like "I have to talk to her now cause this is the second time I've seen her." So I was like...here we go...and I tried my best to talk to her and at first she was just interested in the missionary purpose, but when we tried to set her up she was like...if I have questions I can call you and then all of sudden she was like...do you have time right now? Then we are like, "OF COURSE." so we finished the first lesson with her and now she's coming to the fireside next week!!!

Sofie is doing pretty well, she is really trying to find real happiness. She told us that her life looks really happy from a superficial angle. She has a REALLY good paying job, a loving husband, two children, and a nice house but she's not happy at all and she's looking for a change. She said she's been so unhappy and doesn't know what to do. That's what I love about this gospel, it allows people to literally change heir lives and to find true happiness. This gospel can reach the lives of people who have wandered away and can save the lives of people no matter how far they've gone. 

Nonspiritual thoughts:

How is it literally still so hot when it is 9 at night already. I didn't even know that was possible until I got here. It's apparently only the beginning of summer so my body better get itself together.

After district meeting we usually go English boarding but this time it was just the Siyuan elders and us because Linkou missionaries usually leaves first to go back into the mountains and the District Leader was going on exchanges. So the Siyuan Elders are waiting for us and we go outside to put our helmets on, I open my box to grab my helmet and there I see a DEAD LIZARD. The Linkou elders left it there for my birthday!!! LOLOLOL I SCREAMED SO LOUD and I scared Sister McKim with my scream. Elder Fuller whipped out his pocket knife and picked out the lizard for me.

Sofie yesterday told me that I looked worse than last time and that I looked super tired. I was like.....it's because I am tired lol gotta cover the bags under my eyes cause I apparently look DEAD

Yesterday during ward council, the Elders asked a member in our ward for a knife or something to cut this little piece of cake that they were feeding us. The member starts reaching in her bag, and in my mind I think she's going to whip out a small butter knife or something, BUT SHE DIDN'T. Instead she whips out this huge butcher knife from her bag and I'm like  why does she have a huge knife in her bag but at the same time it's so useful.

Last P-day we went ice skating and there were SO MANY people there and I was struggling. But afterwards we went to go get some ice cream from Ikea!! 

 

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This week we are going as a district to go get some Greek food and probably a churro?? 

Also, we have to buy this special trash bags in order to throw our trash away and so we go to the 7/11 to buy them and they are like, "What size do you want?" Sister McKim just goes..."Your biggest one." and they're like...."are you sure?? it's really big." and she's like "We want the biggest one." They didn't lie....it is huge. 

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趙姐妹

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Sister Tiffany Chao

Taiwan Taipei Mission

4/F, #24, Lane 183

Jin Hua Street

Da-an, Taipei 106

Taiwan