Week 59

Qin Ai de FAMILY!!!!!!!!!!

Oh how I love you so much!

It has been a great week! So many miracles!

We have been blessed with many wonderful investigators! Sister Yan is doing so great and really progressing to her goal. She talks about when she gets baptized and after she gets baptized quite frequently. She came to a Relief Society activity on Saturday and in the process received an answer to her prayers. She said that when she pulled up to the church it looked like the gates were shut. She was worried because she was late... she decided to pray and then the thought came to her mind that we wouldn't invite her if we weren't going to be there and that she should walk around. She found the open gate and came in. She heard the piano and found us. She also sad that her family has been going through some struggles lately and since she started meeting with us things have been getting better and her little sister would like to meet with us as well. So great! I love her!

Also the Wang/ Tong family that I have talked about the past few weeks... So as you know we have started working with Sister Wang's little sister who is amazing! We met with her this week and she asked us a really good question about her job... She reads palms and taro cards and stuff. Well she is going to school to learn how do to these things. Sister Wang (member and her older sister) told her that it is not right... and that that isn't how we receive revelation from God. So Sister Wang (little sister) asked how it was that we receive revelation. We share with her about the spirit. She asked how the spirit feels and we reminded her of how she feels at church and how she often has this feeling to cry... She said she feels it every time she comes to church and when she came to her nephews baptism. She also bore testimony of the blessings she is receiving from her prayers. Then she asked how she can receive answers to other things like about work, school, friends and future things because that is why people like the palm reading and stuff... So we testified of how the spirit can teach us all things and show us all things. We read with her in the Book of Mormon and anywho at the end she said that she is willing to pray about her job and to find a new one. WOW!!!! It was so amazing! The feeling there... It really was so amazing to see that change. And then her sister said "yep what you need to do is pray more, read more, and come to church every week and get baptized and you will see even more blessings!" So bold and so great! It was so amazing! What a blessing to be there!

We also had a miracle at church.... A woman that I taught in ZhangHua (my last area) came to church!!!!! Her name is Sister Huang and when I saw her I was so confused. We only met with her a few times and then she came to church twice but then stopped answering our calls and came down to JiaYi where I am now... She just decided to find the church herself and just come. And she was so surprised to see me there! It was so miraculous! So... I can't think of the English word except for saying that the Lord's hands truly are in all things.... WOW!!!!

So what a week it has been and will be....

I pray that the Lord will be with you all this week as we remember mom. This year has gone by so fast. So much has happened. We have all grown in our own ways and together as a family. I have felt our relationships and love for one another grow just as mom would want it to. I just want to testify again of the Plan of Salvation and what it means to me... not too long ago we had a Combined District Training Meeting where President Bishop shared with us about the Plan of Salvation... he paused for a second and then shared of when he found out that mom passed away and how he shared it with me and then he said "Sister Bray what does the plan mean to you?" and I said "Everything" "Why?" "Because it gives me hope..." It gives me HOPE!!!! It gives me purpose. It lets me know that we WILL see mom again... That we can be together forever!!! It is true! It is real! It is the plan that Heavenly Father has given to His children. It is the plan for OUR family!!!! I am continually grateful for this plan and so grateful for the opportunity I have to share this plan with His children. I am so grateful that in the past year I have been so blessed to feel so close to you all yet I'm so far away. I am so grateful that I have been blessed to feel mom's presence and have truly felt "angels round about me" just as it says in D&C 84:88... Mom continues to love us and help us. I am so grateful for all the beautiful lessons she taught us. For her light and her smile. For her many "I love you" 's and her singing and dancing.... I love her so much! I love you so much! I will be praying lots for you this week...

I love you all soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much!

Until next week!