Making calls...seemed like a good selfie moment
I just can't get enough of this
Da jia hao!
I can't believe another week has already flown by! This
morning I passed off lesson 1 of phase 1. In order to learn the language, President
has us work on three phases. Phase 1 is all the lessons, phase 2 is everyday words,
and phase 3 is characters. I've got to step up my game! I feel like
I've been doing flash cards all day every day.
Chinese birthday cake! Happy 20th!
Hey thanks everyone for the birthday wishes! I had a nice day,
but it was just like any other haha, although, Sister Strong made stake and
mashed potatoes for lunch, and some members got me this Chinese cake stuff from
their work. Consider it celebrated!
Birthday steak and mashed potatoes! no plates though...
Me, Lu JM Sister Strong and Carly, the ev'n of July be 10th
We had zone meeting this week, and that was so fun to see a
lot of familiar faces again. Sister Jensen from the MTC is in our zone, as well
as Sister Lindsay, who also went to Georgia, and a lot of other people from the
MTC. We also got to meet President Jergensen! He's awesome! He's from
Logan, and has the cutest family. Maddie, his 20 year old daughter, will
be here for the summer until BYU starts in the fall, and his twin boys, Daxton
and Breckon (15 maybe?), will be here the whole 3 years. More mission
kids! yay! He's way different than President Day and even President
Harding. He's way spiritual, but yet he's so funny! He told us how he was
called to be a mission president, and his experience meeting Elder Holland and
President Eyring. He said they treated he and his wife like a long lost
cousin that they were so happy to see again. The spirit was so strong as
he was telling us about it! I can only imagine being in a personal interview
with them, and how much more amazing it will be to stand in front of the
Savior.
REUNITED with Sister Jensen!!
Before I forget, there's a new website that has pictures of
the mission and meetings and stuff: taiwantaipeimission.com.
Also, We're going to the temple next Wednesday, the 22nd so that will be our p
day and that's when I'll write. I hope they do a session in
English...
Our big news this week is that Guo qi xiang finally came to church! He even
brought his Christian son! He said his church is wuliao (boring) so he'd check
out ours, and hey loved it. Everyone was so friendly and it was
great. We had a lesson with Guo jiating this week, and it went really
well! We taught the rest of the plan of salvation, and they're so excited to go
to the temple and get sealed for eternity. And he totally understands
that he has to go to church first, then get baptized and all that. Ahh
they're the best (:
Sometimes translations to English aren't exactly correct...
We had a lot of bus rides to Taipei this week, so just another selfie...
I also had a cool personal experience. One day we
decided to go to the bus station and just make calls/contacts. So Sister
Strong was making calls and I was left alone to talk to people around us! I
finally got up enough courage to talk to someone, and it went really well! I
didn't understand half of what she was saying, but I understood the general
idea enough to keep the conversation going and eventually give her a Book of
Mormon! That was so cool. Heavenly Father really does help you at the
exact time you need it. All it takes is a little faith and action!
Turtle Island! Unfortunately, missionaries can't go there :(
We went to a hot pot place for Sister Strong's year mark
On the flip side, I had this little epiphany as we were
tracting one day. The first house we knocked on answered, and it was a kid with
his mom and grandma (who speaks Taiwanese so she didn't understand us).
The whole time, the mom and grandma possibly could have been an analogy for
Satan. We started talking to him, and they got all antsy. We sat
down and prayed with him, and they started mumbling stuff to each other. We
showed him a video, and they tried pulling him back so he couldn't watch.
He wrote down his number, and they pulled him back more and mumbled more
stuff. Every move we make as a missionary, Satan is getting that much more angry! As we
were leaving, the grandma even came outside and tried to give us back the Book
of Mormon! Haha they were nice about it of course, but still. That just
gave me all the more desire to go out and share the gospel. Satan's army
is working just as hard as us, and we've got to out-invite them! We will win!
Egg tarts from KFC!
Last p-day we went to a place where fish eat the dead skin off your feet.
Not the best place for a ticklish person...
One last thought; something cool that was shared in zone
meeting. We were talking about how to get rid of any doubt and
fear. Someone brought up 2 Nephi 9:39 where it says "spiritually
minded is life eternal". First of all, that's way deep! I like
that. Also, the first letters of those words make SMILE. I've
really taken Brigham's invitation to smile all the time to heart, and it's so
fun to see how it totally changes a person's countenance. All it takes is
a little smile and a wave hello as we pass someone on the street, and they will talk to you easily. There is true power in a simple
smile. Man, I love the people here.
Love, Feng Jiemei (:
Taiwan sunsets are sooo pretty!
Just in case y'all were wondering...I know I was!
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