Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!! Gan An Jie Kuai Le!!!!
I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving! We truly have so so so so much to be thankful for! We have so many blessings. This week I was especially hit with gratitude for my family. I love you all sooooo much!!!!! You are the best! I was introducing myself the other day and showing my family picture and Claire and Sonny's new school pics and I just went off on how my family members are my best friends! I love you guys!!!!!
It has been a great week! Busy, Hot, and Good!!!!! I love it!!!!
We met a really cute girl named Penny this week. She is so great. We met her last Monday and have met with her 3 times since. She loves the Book of Mormon and she is praying everyday. Her prayers are amazing!!!!! She prayed at the end of the lesson the other day and to be honest I don;t remember what she said but I remember feeling the Spirit so strong. It was amazing! She was sick yesterday but still came to church... She is wonderful. She is so sweet and she has such a great desire. I love her!!!!
Big story... so this kinda started awhile ago. You might recall me writing home about a sweet girl from Texas named Bree.... She is AMAZING! When we met she told us that she used to be a member but she removed her records a few years ago... Well she lives in our apartment building so Sister Pomeroy and I started visiting her and building a really good relationship. Now Bree is one of my dear life-long fiends. So is Jessica a awesome girl that she lives with. Oh I love them!!! Well we have seen so many miracles with Bree. I have seen her change. Her light and countenance has change. She is so happy and so giving. She is such an amazing example. I love her! She started going to church again. She came to conference with us. She has a light! Well then she started asking us wonderful questions. She also came to baptisms. She has helped Erika and Sister Liu so much. She also came out and did missionary work with us. She is awesome! Well we started talking about baptism with her and she said she knew that she would have to be baptized again but she said just not right now.... Well this week was a big miracle..... She did some research and found out her records were never removed.... SHE IS A MEMBER!!!!!! She said when she found out she was shocked but laughed. This month is the 5 year anniversary of when she thought her records were removed and this is the first year she hasn't had hard feelings about the church but that she has actually had good feelings!!!!!! AMAZING!!!! We watched the Testaments with her and she told us that her favorite part is the end when Christ says the dad's name because she said that she knows that Christ knows us all by name and that His love is so individual. She knows of His love for her. It was AMAZING! She knows it! AHHHHH! This really has been a big miracles... miracles have happen every week with her. This is a blessing I will never forget.... I am so grateful I could meet her and that we could become dear friends. I LOVE HER!!!
Also, sweet Erika is so wonderful! Since she got baptized she really just has this light. She has a desire to share the gospel. She is amazing! She prayed in sacrament yesterday. It was beautiful! She was so nervous but it was great!
I LOVE THIS WORK! I am so grateful that the Lord allows me to wear His name. I am so grateful to be His representative and to represent His church. I have become so much closer to Him. I have felt Him so near me. I have felt the peace that has come from His atoning sacrifice. I know that He lives. I am so grateful that Our Father allowed Him to suffer and die so that we might all live again. I know that Heavenly Father loves each one of us. He hears our prayers. I am so grateful for Him.
I love you all so so so so so soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!!
Until next week!!!!!
November 24, 2011
Week 52
HEY!!!!
It has been another great week! It was a rainy one but it turned out great!!!!
We had some sad news on Wednesday... sweet Ke Meimei and Ke Didi weren't able to get baptized. Their dad really opposes them getting baptized and coming to church. Although their mom supports it this is a really fragile situation. They kids are both really sad and disappointed. We talked to their mom and realized that she really does want the best for them and is doing this for their safety and protection. It's so sad and it was hard to see them so sad. But I see their desire to change and to have their dad see the blessings of the church. They will get baptized one day. They are so sweet and precious. Their mom has also asked that we stop meeting with them for right now... We haven't been able to talk to them for a few days... that has been really hard. But we hope and pray that they are doing well. Heavenly Father is watching over them... It all in His hands.
We have seen a lot of great miracles this week especially with meeting new people and part member families. Even in the rain we were blessed with success. We really see miracles everyday. It is so amazing! The Lord's hand is in His work.
We met a sweet lady on the street this week who is really struggling. She just started crying and opening up to us. She wants to change. We prayed and she just cried. The Spirit was really strong and powerful. We also met a sweet girl from China named Joy. She was so excited when she met us. We were able to have a short lesson with her about Heavenly Father and prayer. The next time we met with her she told us that her friend had gotten sick so she prayed for her and asked that we pray with her. She was so excited to tell us when our prayers were answered and her friend is doing better.
I have felt mom a lot this week. I met a lady that reminded me of her and she was in my dreams a few times this week. She brings such a loving spirit to the work. I just know that she would love these people so much! I love and miss her!
And I love and miss all of you!!!!
Until next week!!!!!
It has been another great week! It was a rainy one but it turned out great!!!!
We had some sad news on Wednesday... sweet Ke Meimei and Ke Didi weren't able to get baptized. Their dad really opposes them getting baptized and coming to church. Although their mom supports it this is a really fragile situation. They kids are both really sad and disappointed. We talked to their mom and realized that she really does want the best for them and is doing this for their safety and protection. It's so sad and it was hard to see them so sad. But I see their desire to change and to have their dad see the blessings of the church. They will get baptized one day. They are so sweet and precious. Their mom has also asked that we stop meeting with them for right now... We haven't been able to talk to them for a few days... that has been really hard. But we hope and pray that they are doing well. Heavenly Father is watching over them... It all in His hands.
We have seen a lot of great miracles this week especially with meeting new people and part member families. Even in the rain we were blessed with success. We really see miracles everyday. It is so amazing! The Lord's hand is in His work.
We met a sweet lady on the street this week who is really struggling. She just started crying and opening up to us. She wants to change. We prayed and she just cried. The Spirit was really strong and powerful. We also met a sweet girl from China named Joy. She was so excited when she met us. We were able to have a short lesson with her about Heavenly Father and prayer. The next time we met with her she told us that her friend had gotten sick so she prayed for her and asked that we pray with her. She was so excited to tell us when our prayers were answered and her friend is doing better.
I have felt mom a lot this week. I met a lady that reminded me of her and she was in my dreams a few times this week. She brings such a loving spirit to the work. I just know that she would love these people so much! I love and miss her!
And I love and miss all of you!!!!
Until next week!!!!!
November 9, 2011
Week 51
Nimen Hao!!!!!
It has been a great week! I think I say that every week but really it is always a great week!!!! I love this work!!!
Time! Where is this time going?! It is going too fast. To be honest I cried about 4 times this week because of time.... IT IS GOING TOO FAST! 6 months... it just breaks my heart to think of leaving these people and leaving Taiwan. I also know that it will be hard to take off this beautiful name tag. 6 months will go fast but it is also a lot of time. I know there are many great people to still meet and more miracles to witness in the work of the Lord. I can't waste any time!... This time will not come back!
I just LOVE this work! I LOVE the people. I love them so much! I really can't explain it and it keeps growing... They are so beautiful. Their examples amaze me. They give everything for this gospel. It is everything to them! And it shows. It amazes me the sacrifices they make to enjoy the blessings of the gospel.... I am so grateful that I was called to Labor in this part of the Lord's vineyard.
I am also so grateful for those that I get to labor with. I have been blessed with the best companions! They are all so wonderful! I am so grateful for the time I have now to be serving with Sister Watterson. She is so amazing. She is a consecrated servant. I am so grateful for her example. I LOVE her!
Sweet Ke MeiMei (little sister) and Ke DiDi (little brother) committed to be baptised this Saturday. They are so cute! And so funny! Ke DiDi needed to come to church for his baptismal interview so we went to go get them to walk with them to the church. Well, of course being a 9 yr old, half way there he decided he wanted to go home. It was so funny! Ke MeiMei and Ke DiDi acted just like Claire and Sonny a few years ago... haha it was so funny. Let's just say the usual 20 minute walk turned into almost a 40 minute walk. But he got there and the Elders took him to get a slurpee from 7-11. (the Elders are so much cooler haha) They are both so excited to get baptized! They are so sweet and precious. I am amazed by their sweet and tender desires. They are young but they understand so much. They are young but they have seen so much. I LOVE this family. The Young Womens have been so great at including Ke MeiMei and making sure that she is invited and involved in everything. Ke DiDi is quite the Typhoon. If we get him sitting it's great and luckily there are about 5 other boys in the ward around his age that are the same way... (those sweet Primary teachers) Oh I love this family! There mom is working so hard to provide for her children. She's not able to come to church right now but she has a beautiful desire to also come unto Christ and help her children do the same.
I LOVE you all so much!!!!!!
Until next week!
It has been a great week! I think I say that every week but really it is always a great week!!!! I love this work!!!
Time! Where is this time going?! It is going too fast. To be honest I cried about 4 times this week because of time.... IT IS GOING TOO FAST! 6 months... it just breaks my heart to think of leaving these people and leaving Taiwan. I also know that it will be hard to take off this beautiful name tag. 6 months will go fast but it is also a lot of time. I know there are many great people to still meet and more miracles to witness in the work of the Lord. I can't waste any time!... This time will not come back!
I just LOVE this work! I LOVE the people. I love them so much! I really can't explain it and it keeps growing... They are so beautiful. Their examples amaze me. They give everything for this gospel. It is everything to them! And it shows. It amazes me the sacrifices they make to enjoy the blessings of the gospel.... I am so grateful that I was called to Labor in this part of the Lord's vineyard.
I am also so grateful for those that I get to labor with. I have been blessed with the best companions! They are all so wonderful! I am so grateful for the time I have now to be serving with Sister Watterson. She is so amazing. She is a consecrated servant. I am so grateful for her example. I LOVE her!
Sweet Ke MeiMei (little sister) and Ke DiDi (little brother) committed to be baptised this Saturday. They are so cute! And so funny! Ke DiDi needed to come to church for his baptismal interview so we went to go get them to walk with them to the church. Well, of course being a 9 yr old, half way there he decided he wanted to go home. It was so funny! Ke MeiMei and Ke DiDi acted just like Claire and Sonny a few years ago... haha it was so funny. Let's just say the usual 20 minute walk turned into almost a 40 minute walk. But he got there and the Elders took him to get a slurpee from 7-11. (the Elders are so much cooler haha) They are both so excited to get baptized! They are so sweet and precious. I am amazed by their sweet and tender desires. They are young but they understand so much. They are young but they have seen so much. I LOVE this family. The Young Womens have been so great at including Ke MeiMei and making sure that she is invited and involved in everything. Ke DiDi is quite the Typhoon. If we get him sitting it's great and luckily there are about 5 other boys in the ward around his age that are the same way... (those sweet Primary teachers) Oh I love this family! There mom is working so hard to provide for her children. She's not able to come to church right now but she has a beautiful desire to also come unto Christ and help her children do the same.
I LOVE you all so much!!!!!!
Until next week!
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