Sanchong District - Week 6
This week was transfer week—I am staying with Sister Clyde
for another 6 weeks of training!
One of the perks about having smartphones is that we have
the ability to use a messaging app called Line. It's alllllllll the rage in
Taiwan, so we are truly blessed with this opportunity to communicate with
members and investigators in such a convenient way! I feel a thrill when I get
Line notifications, similar to how I used to react when I received Instagram
notifications and Snaps. "Did our investigator respond?! What scripture
did she read today? Wow, her faith in Christ is developing!!" Hahaha who
would have thought this would be my life?
Also I want to make mention of the fact that my cousins Zac and Christian Love's "Nothing Can Separate Us" has been the soundtrack of my
mission so far. That song and a bunch of other EFY songs. The BEST. :-)
This week has just kinda been funny. Chinese is slowly
coming. I have made some mistakes in lessons, trust me. For example, I told one
person we were teaching that "Yesu Jidu zui xihuan zuo de shiqing shi Ta
de Shuzui." Which means, roughly translated, "Jesus Christ's favorite
thing He did for us was the Atonement." But I meant to say "zui
zhongyao zuo de shiqing" or "most important thing He did for us"
hehe oops. I also said that Joseph Smith kneeled down in SHILIN limian (a place
in Taiwan) instead of in a SHULIN limian (a grove of trees.) Good times
learning another language.
This week after one of our dinners, a guy from Nigeria
stopped on his motorcycle and told us he was Catholic. We talked for a bit and
then he asked if maybe we could get to know each other a bit. We explained that
we are missionaries, not sure exactly where it was going, and said that we are
really focused on missionary work right now. Then he asked if maybe after the
mission, when I'm all done and we've gotten to know each other a bit, then
maybe I could fall in love with him and get married to him. For reals, people!
I just told him where we have an English church meeting in Taipei and we invited
him to attend. Then we hurried to say goodbye and got outta there! He was
really nice, but yeah.
Lastly, I'd like to share the same scripture we shared a
couple days ago with one of our investigators, Annie Liu. For some reason, she
just can't get herself out of her house. She never has motivation to get up and
do stuff. That's why she hasn't been coming to church. We told her that if she
prays in absolute faith, God can and WILL give her the strength to come to
church. And this is the scripture we shared, Alma 37: 36-37:
36
Yea, and cry unto God for all thy support; yea, let all thy doings be unto the
Lord, and whithersoever thou goest let it be in the Lord; yea, let all thy
thoughts be directed unto the Lord; yea, let the affections of thy heart be
placed upon the Lord forever.
37
Counsel with the Lord in all thy doings, and he will direct thee for good; yea,
when thou liest down at night lie down unto the Lord, that he may watch over
you in your sleep; and when thou risest in the morning let thy heart be full of
thanks unto God; and if ye do these things, ye shall be lifted up at the last
day.
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Doin' some personal study...
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