I hope you had a beautiful white Decembery week! I keep forgetting it's December here because there is no whiteness to be had, but it has become a lot colder though! This week was full of exciting things, miracles, tender mercies, growth spurts, all of the above :)
This week was Sister Exchanges so I got to go to Xi Tai Nan with Sister Liu and I loved it! She is an adorable girl from Taibei who joined the church less than two years ago! She is a stellar missionary and I learned so much from her :) She has a great attitude about missionary work, is so humble, and really gives it her all. O best part.....we ate dinner at.....COSTCO! Yes, I had a delicious Costco hot dog in Taiwan- it was mmmmhhhhmmm good :D
I got to go on another Sister Exchange on Saturday with Sister Walbrecht as President Bishop approved a little mini "Dong Qu" Sister Exchange for us 4 sisters. We had a blast together! She is just full of love and we saw many miracles with less actives and investigators. The miracle story this week comes from her......we had gone to visit a member on Saturday morning and I remembered there was a less-active who lived right down the street who we had not visited for awhile. She is from Brazil and is married to a Taiwanese man. We decided to just stop for a few minutes and see if she was home,which she was! She was on her way out, but said we could come in for a few minutes. We sat down and started talking to her and then Sister Walbrecht, being the spirit led missionary she is, asked her if she would come to church this Sunday and help guan xi our investigators. I had never seen this less active sister at church and when I had previously visited her, she still said she wasn't ready to come to church. So I wasn't really expecting her to say anything.....BUT she said yes!! And then she came to church the next day!! The ward was elated to see her and everyone was coming up to her. She said she felt a lot of love and feels like yue lai yue she will be able to become fully active. It was a huge, wonderful, happy miracle :D Helping less-actives is such a beautiful part of missionary work! It always reminds me how much the Lord and Heavenly Father loves His children.....He never, ever, ever forgets them :D O! and remember LJQ? She was a less active we had been working with in the 1st ward before it was split and the other sisters told me she is now officially active! So happy!
Investigators are all just dandy :) Through her daily prayer and scripture study, ZJM's faith is growing more and more. We have an adorable young mom, CJM, who is a sister of a husband of a family in the ward. We have been meeting with her every Sunday and she is recognizing from her brother and sister-in-law's testimony, what a blessing this Gospel is to families. It's an absolute treasure to meet with an investigator and have their family members also help us to teach and bear testimony. I'm always way more nervous for lessons with members' family members, but the Spirit is always there to guide and teach :)
So you've been asking about a typical proselyting day.....well here's how it goes!
Wake up at 6:30....roll out of bed and do some exercising and then get ready for the day
8:00-10:30....Studies! Personal, companion, and language study
10:30....depart for the day! We usually have a lesson at 11 or we will go finding (tracting, contacting, etc.)
12ish- eat lunch and do some more language study!
1ish- lesson time, finding, etc. In Taiwan, a huge mode of finding is through contacting at intersections which I have really come to love! You just pull up to people, meet them really fast, share a 5 second message and try to get them to pull over...it's great :) We also do quite a bit of tracting too....I prefer night time tracting, but this week we are going to try some caroling tracting for Christmas!
5:00- eat dinner :) and then we just have lessons, visiting people, finding, or meetings until 9 and then we plan for the next day, finish calling some people, etc. and get ready for bed.......and that would conclude my 1 minute tour of a missionary's day :)
I am so grateful to be a missionary at Christmas time- it is the best thing ever :) I absolutely love singing Christmas songs in lessons right before we teach about the Gospel- it doesn't get much better than that. I'm so grateful for this Christmas season to focus on the birth of our Savior and let the entire world know that He lives and loves us. Maybe there's no snow here, but His Spirit is. I pray that we, both members and missionaries, will be able to find people in these coming weeks who are in need and searching for their Savior's love and atoning power. Have a wonderful CHRISTmas filled week :)
Love you all so much and am so grateful for all of your love and letters!
Sister J. :)
Love you all so much and am so grateful for all of your love and letters!
Sister J. :)
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