Taiwan Week 35 - April 8 - Service and The Spirit

Sis. Jarvis loves training and loves the people!

Hi Fam!

I hope you had an amazing Conference weekend! It is such an amazing time of year :) We are so excited to watch it with our investigators this weekend! This would conclude Sister Shultz and my first full week together and it was great! We are learning lots together. This week we had some great lessons with investigators, met prepared people in our path, and were able to participate in Sau mu for the holiday this last week (see pictures :) ). This last week was a big holiday, kind of like Memorial Day, when everyone goes and cleans their ancestor's graves. The grave sites are really big in Taiwan so it takes the whole family's effort! It has become a tradition for the missionaries to participate in this holiday as well, cleaning old grave sites or those without names. It was a really fun activity! People were really gracious to us and this sweet older lady even asked the Elders to help her clean her husband's grave site :) It was really fun to be out there with the people and serving them in a different way :)

We have this great investigator right now, LJM, who has really begun progressing towards baptism. She is a graduate student who just returned from going to school in the U.S. She has been meeting with the missionaries for just over two months, but has just been feeling she is not prepared yet to be baptized. We had an amazing member at her lesson who testified to her that it's not about being fully prepared before, but that after you are baptized you keep learning and growing. This really touched her as well as a scripture in Mosiah 18 when Alma is inviting people to be baptized and receive the Spirit. She seems to be really touched by the gift of the Holy Ghost, obeys the commandments, said she cannot deny the Book of Mormon is the word of God and that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God, and we are hoping she will be baptized in the next few weeks! We know that the Lord has a marvelous plan for her! Update on some others.......the young sisters! We called them this week and asked the 10 yr. old what her favorite scripture was and she said 2 Nephi 22:2.....wow :) We love them so much! ALSO......CJM, the miracle 17 year old who came to church.......brought her sister to church on Sunday! They also both came to the Elders baptism on Saturday and were so touched by the Spirit. They are both so great......so prepared.....but their mom wants them to wait until they are 20 to be baptized. We just need to move forward with faith, consistently trusting in the Lord's timing, and helping them to know how much this Gospel will bless them!

I have a testimony of the Spirit and love = the greatest formula in the whole wide world! Zhen de :) The sweetest moments I have experienced as a missionary have happened because of the immense presence of the Spirit and the love of God as well as the love of others. I know that as we love the Lord, our companion, and the people.....we are blessed with the Spirit. I know that Heavenly Father loves all of His children sooooo much! I know that this Gospel is full of joy and we don't even know all the blessings that await us! I know that we have a living Prophet on the Earth and he truly helps us feel the love of Heavenly Father. I love you all sooo much and am so grateful for you!!!!

Have an amazing week!

Sister J. :)

Sis. Jarvis, Sis. Shultz and the Elders Serving

Grave Sites

Sis. Jarvis!