We exchanged with the Sister Training leaders
last week and got caught in a HUGE rainstorm! It was pouring and thundering and
lightning (which doesn't really happen here!) and we were trying to bike home
in it! It was actually really fun because it was so crazy, and it sort of felt
like a video game- you know how in Mario Kart where you're trying not to get
hit by all the stuff that will kill you and then you get inked and can't see?
Well, switch out the swinging spiky things for taxis and busses and the ink for
rain in your eyes, and that was us! Love it! Times like these make me realize
that I really am in a foreign country riding a bike in a skirt and telling
people who are thoroughly Buddhist in a language I don't really know how they
can become Christian! And I love it :D
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| One of the many Buddist temples in Taipei |
We saw a really neat miracle on that exchange.
We had a little bit of contacting time before we needed to be back at the
apartment, so we said a prayer and Sis Gagon asked me where I thought we should
go. We both felt like we should head a certain direction, so we started
walking. We found a lady who was texting on her phone and started talking to
her. She was super interested and we set a baptismal date right there and then!
So neat!
Another amazing miracle we saw this week was
that Sis Petersen was looking through her old planners and found the name of someone
who was potentially interested in learning about the Gospel. Next to it, the
guy had written "Linkou Taibei". She was serving in Taoyuan at the
time, and at that time, she thought it was bogus because there is no Linkou
district in Taibei and it didn't work when she tried to send the referral. But
when she saw it this time, she realized that Linkou is a street in our area! It
is actually a street where one of our recent converts lives! So we called him
up and he agreed to meet with us! I think if he wasn't prepared to hear the
gospel last year when sis petersen found him, he must be by now!
Alpha and Beta. We gave them an alarm clock and
talked about the importance of church attendance on Friday and they still
didn't come to church. :( So we will keep trying. There must be something that
is stopping them because the love the scriptures and are still going strong
with the word of wisdom- we just need to find out what their real concern is.
Hopefully we will be able to meet with Beta and his parents this week and
discuss some of their concerns.
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| Cleaning the baptismal font. Now it is nice and sparkly! |
This week I read Helaman 3:35 in my personal
study. (..They
did fast and pray oft, and did wax stronger and stronger in their humility, and
firmer and firmer in the faith of Christ, unto the filling their souls with joy
and consolation, yea, even to the purifying and the sanctification of their
hearts, which sanctification cometh because of their yielding their hearts unto
God.)I love this scripture- I love especially the
part about yielding your heart to God. That is my goal- to yield everything to
God and become pure and sanctified. I feel like my mission is definitely
helping me to "wax stronger and stronger in my humility". God wants
to kill the natural man, not just tame it or temper it, but kill it completely.
In order to do that, we have to give ourselves completely to Him and trust that
He knows us and will give us experiences that will refine us into the person he
wants us to be.
Nicole
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