Good morning beautiful family! I swear I say this every
week, but I can't believe it's already another Monday. Libai yi kuaile!
Things are just going great here in Yilan. The sun is shining, the sewer
smell is only mildy strong, and the natives are up and ready for the day!
Transfers are this week, so we got up early go to see the sunrise on the beach!
Plus a little frisbee and a nice run added in there. I guess it's a
district tradition now? This island is so beautiful though! I'm in love.
Best tongbantuan ever!
Ming Yuan (Guo jiating son) came back from dangbing for the
weekend! I think it's some kind of military training, but everyone has to do
it. We just have a few more commandments to teach him, lesson 5, and he's
all set to hop in the water! Since it's bu yiding (not for sure?) what weekends
he'll be back, we're just going at it with a weekly basis. He's so stoked
to be baptized though! As we've been teaching all the commandments, he keeps
saying, "I'm already keeping that!" Haha he's great. It
definitely helps that he's already Christian and knows all the basic stuff. Guo
DX can't wait to baptize his son! What a cute happy little family (: The older
sister and brother might take a little longer, but they'll come around!
We had exchanges this week! I sometimes dread exchanges, but
I left my area this time, so it wasn't so stressful. I went to Beitou (in
Taipei) with Sister Sagisi, she's awesome! She's from Hawaii, and she actually
goes home next transfer! Crazy stuff! But we had the coolest miracle while we
were together! She wanted me to try all this food that we don't have in Yilan,
so at night we were planning out everywhere we wanted to go. I have no doubt
that Heavenly Father was listening to our planning session, because there is no
way that we found Liu JM by accident. We were debating to get a drink
with dongxi in it, and we figured what the heck, haha. So as we were just
on the side of the street drinking, this woman comes up to us, and just kind of
stops, like she expects us to talk to her. So we did of course! It turns out
that she's Christian, and she was just so humble and wanting to listen and
learn. We set up a time to meet with her, and she accepted baptism.
It just amazes me how perfect our Heavenly Father's plan is. He knew
exactly where we would be, he helped lead Liu JM to us. And to think that
he's doing that to everyone, all around the world! Man, the gospel is so cool!
District sunrise beach party
Sister Sagisi gave me a cool talk to read called Project
Purification (sorry I don't know who it's by but go find it!) It basically went
through every aspect of missionary work (but can also be applied to every day
member life, of course) and it talked about what a social missionary would do,
an honorable missionary, and a sacred missionary.
District paidui at
mai dang lao (McD's) plus Carly and Craig (:
Even the littlest of
things that seem so insignificant but are still disobedient will take the
spirit away from you. Then there was an invite/plan that I definitely
want to do this next transfer! So you fast to know which things you need to
change to have the spirit more in your life. Every morning, ask for help
through prayer in making those changes, and every night report how it went,
repent if needed, and recommit. I'm going to start at the beginning of the
transfer, and I expect to see miracles! It will be great. 
Funnest food I've eaten yet!
I have no idea what they're
called haha.
You crack it open in the middle, and you have to squish
out
this red bean/potato stuff.
Haha it's an odd concept.
Exchanges with Sister Sagisi!
Hong dou bing! It's got cream stuff in the middle,
or red bean stuff. Too bad they're not in Yilan :(
I just want to thank everyone real quick. Thank you
for your prayers, your letters and emails, your encouragement, and your
love. Sometimes it's weird being on the other end of all those, since
I've had 3 brothers serve a mission. I'm the missionary now! And we do
need prayers because we definitely can't do it alone! But I'm so humbled and so
grateful to be serving a a mission for the Lord right now. I literally can't think
of anything else I would rather be doing than teaching the restored gospel to
these precious little Taiwanese ren. I know it's true, and they will too
(:
Love, Feng Jiemei!
Good morning, Taiwan (:
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