Good Mornin Fam! Zao an!!!!
Happy week, happy day!! I hope all of your tropical vacationing and field sporting all went just superb this week!
This week de hua...........a lolly oooda lolly gally what a week :) It's May! Yippee! We are having a Cinco de Mayo party this week in English! and have also been teaching our 79 year old RC how to speak Spanish...she's a hoot :) We also had a Sisters' Meeting this week!!! It was incredible--so uplifting and inspiring! Some of the Senior Sisters spoke and it felt like being back in YWs with adorable hand-outs and inspiring music :) We watched this really amazing video on with all the Presidents of Primary, RS, and YWs that the church has made that also really helped us understand our role with the Priesthood and in meetings. I'm so grateful to be a Sister Missionary! It is truly a privilege :)
Funny story of the week: We were biking out to hua tan (more of the countryside) with lots of people on the road.......heard the ambulance siren so everyone is looking around behind us, but no ambulance! We keep hearing the siren and then all of a sudden this young kid comes flying past us on his bike with a megaphone siren hooked to his bike! haha it was pretty funny......everybody was just chuckling.........love Taiwan :)
O the miracles of this week..........sooooo good :) There is no other explanation for them then for the hand of the Lord. Heavenly Father truly made all things possible this week! First off, remember the dear, sweet, adorable young sisters who can summarize the entire Book of Mosiah in detail? :) Yes....well they still have their baptismal date but have not come to church yet so this was the do or die week! Well, after inviting and inviting we realized there really wasn't too much more we could do and decided to leave it all in the Lord's hands. We prayed every day that if it be His will, there would be a way for them to come to church or that their desire to come would increase. We turned everything over to Him.........well we still hadn't heard from them by Sat night so we decided to stop by their Aunt's house and they were there! And they said they were sleeping over so she could take them to church! **AAAhhhh!*** and truly one of the happiest moments ever was when they walked through the church doors at 9:00 on Sunday morning! The Primary President was there to greet them and made them feel so welcome and they stayed for all three hours! (Sister Shultz was prepared with paper and pens for doodling during Sacrament ;) ) It was an absolute miracle. They are still progressing and we will continue to turn to the Lord and know that if it be His will, they can be baptized this month :) We truly must trust in the Lord and His ways and His timing in all that we do and as we do, I know that everything will go according to the Heavenly Plan :)
2nd: Another miracle....the Zone leaders gave us an invite this week to confirm all of our RCs for church by Friday. We had one RC whom we both have still never met, so we decided to go find her! She was our back-up plan for Thursday night and when the other plans fell through we headed to her house. She was home and was so happy to let us in! We had a great little lesson about the Spirit with her and invited her to church and she said yes! AND she came :) We were so grateful for their inspired invite this week because this sweet sister is now on her way to coming back :)
3rd: Super fun night tracting last night!! We found this super steep, long hill that is really forested with all of these houses. We started at the top and went all the way down- meeting lots of cute, old a mas and a bas (we kept on ringing bells, running around as fast as we could AND THEN.........we met an adorable young family who said we could come back this week!! So great, so excited :) Met with a family we tracted into last week again who are formers from a few years ago and they were so excited to have us back and so eager to kneel in prayer! The Dad is hilarious, super happy and friendly, and wanted to be prepared this week so he read up on the Prophet Joseph Smith and Restoration this last week and really understood it! Yay for families!! Teaching families is like having this really delicious, specialty made cake..........so so so good, and every opportunity to "eat" it is so precious and just have to eat it little by little :) We are so grateful that Heavenly Father has given this opportunity to teach a few families!
My testimony this week............turn to the Lord in everything you do! I learned this week that we need to involve Him in everything and to always continue to be more like Him. I love a line from PMG pg. 115 it says, "Just as vital as what you do, however, is who you are. The restored gospel enables you to become like Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ." Words of truth.......Ch. 6 in PMG is amazing! Read it if you haven't, because it will change your life and your relationship with Christ. I know He lives! And as we come unto Him and invite others to do the same.......we will never fear or worry for He will always be with us. Have an amazing week- See you on Monday!! (Monday was when Sister Jarvis was able to call and skype with her family for Mother's Day)
Sister J.
I love you!!!!
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