Christmas all month long. :)

My Beloved Shizhong Girls (That's not everyone, just the most recent pics I took)

This week was another great week!  I love Christmas!  Christmas as a Missionary is great.  The whole entire month is just overflowing with thoughts about how to help the people here know and understand the true meaning of Christmas.  Great things are happening here in Shizhong!  But!  There has been some recent devastating news!  My beloved companion Sister Thao who has only been with me for 4 weeks will be moving this next move call on Friday!  Nooooo~!  But she will be going Senior and I do know that all the moves that President makes are after serious prayer and promptings from the Spirit.  I will really miss having her as a companion but I know she is off to bigger and better things. 

Super miracle!  Our other investigator passed her baptismal interview on Saturday!  She will be getting baptized on same day as the investigator I mentioned in my last letter.  MIRACLES!!  They are already friends and are both so excited be to getting baptized on the same day.  They really are both just so ready.  I have no doubt that even after baptism they will continue to grow and exercise their faith in the Savior and become strong disciples of Christ.

Let us all revel in the feelings of love peace and charity that come with the remembrance the the birth of our Savior and Redeemer and go and do the things that He would.

Sister Hsu

Random pictures.

It's Christmas! Well... Sort of. :)

Mission Christmas

This past week was so fun and amazing!  We not only saw a huge miracle, but we also had a ton of fun.  This past week was our Mission Christmas Party.  In other words our whole mission came down to GaoXiong!  It was the best thing to see some missionaries that I hadn't seen in a really long time.  I won't lie, there was definitely some squealing as we saw certain people come of the parade of buses.  We went and took a Mission picture in front of a giant sitting Buddha and then had time to take photos and be with friends.  Afterwards we all went to an All-You-Can-Eat restaurant.  So good.  There was all you can eat sushi and sashimi.  I love sashimi!  It really was a great time.  :)

I got to see people I love! :)

Other than that.  MIRACLE!!!  Our investigator who would never accept a baptismal goal has decided to be baptized on the 27th!  So awesome!  We had been feeling that she'd been ready for a few weeks now, but she just wasn't sure.   So we invited her to just have the Baptismal Interview so she could gauge for herself where she's at spiritually.  But!  It and the on the interview she told our District Leader that she wants to be baptized!  Amazing!  We are so happy for her!  And on top of that, we may have another investigator that could get baptized on the same day.  It really is just so great to see the changes that occur in people as they choose to live the teachings of Christ.  

The District

Merry Christmas!!!!!

Sister Hsu

Yay!

This past week has been another great one in the city of GaoXiong!  We had a wonderful Thanksgiving here!  I feel like we just had a week of preparing for different Thanksgiving dinners.  Haha.  But it really was a great week.  I love the people here and all the good friends I've made here on the mission.  I am just doing all I can to love every minute that I have as a representative of the Lord.  I love my new companion Sister Thao.  I need to get a picture with her sometime soon so I can let you see her.  :)  She really is quite amazing.  Well in honesty I'm not sure what to say other than I am truly having the greatest time of my life.  The only downfall is that I've been super exhausted recently,  I suppose this is just what comes after you've been out a little while.  But, outside of the physical exhaustion, I have been great.

I love you all!  Oh and if I have forgotten birthdays or special occasions... I apologize.  I'll try better next time.

Sister Hsu

Oh and  shout out to Richard from  Lingya Ward.  My memory card got a virus on it a few weeks ago and he was willing to take it and see if he could clean it out for me.  He not only fixed it but got me some stuff to make it just a bit safer for me to plug them into the internet cafe computers.  Thanks Richard!

So here are some pictures.

I climbed Monkey Mountain with Sister Wu and Jin Fang. There were definitely a lot of monkeys. (BTW I had a member companion while I was waiting for Sister Thao to arrive in GaoXiong)

We made it to the top! It was beautiful. :) The air was so fresh!

Look at what my adorable family sent me for Thanksgiving.

Another new move-call?

Well, surprise!  We found out on Tuesday night that Sister Olson would actually be moving and I'd be getting a new companion on Friday.  Due to the blessing of new missionaries finally arriving (albeit a bit late) We had another move-call on a Friday in the second week of a move-call.  (I hope that made sense)  So this means... I have a new companion!  She is super awesome.  Her name is Sister Thao.  She's Hmong and amazing.  We are gonna make miracles together here in Shizhong!  FIRE!  FAITH!  DILIGENCE!!!  HAHAHAH!!!  

Sister Thao and I at our Ward Thanksgiving Party

Okay, well other than move-call, another amazing thing happened this past week.  One of our investigators "not-so-good-influence-boyfriend" has moved.  Now she has more freedom like being able to out when she wants, and not having to stay up until 10am watching movies with him.  So!  She was able to come to her first activity with our amazing members!  Sophia through a rather large dinner party at her house because three of our missionaries were going to be moving on Friday.  Our investigator was able to come and have so good wholesome fun and taste a bit of freedom!  So good!

Okay, well I think that's about it for now.  I'm still trying to find a way to fix my memory card.  Wish me luck.

Sister Hsu

General Conference!!!

Note from Kat: Sorry, I found this hidden in my email, and I'm not sure if I actually posted it. But here it is! She sent this to me back in October.

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaay!  Loved Genreal Conference.  I think it may actually the first time in my life where after the 8 hours of conference were over I just wished it could keep going.  I literally could not get enough.  I loved literally every single talk.  Which ones spoke to your heart?

Our Investigator also came and watched on session and said that she even wanted to go home and watch it again online.  Super great!

Miracle of the week:  An investigator that I taught from my second area (Beitun) is getting baptized!  But that's not the coolest part, the reason I we stopped teaching her in Beitun is because she moved to Huwei.  So we asked the Huwei Elders to get in contact with her, we would occasionally catch up a little on Facebook.  Then 3 months later she messages me and says she is getting baptized in Tainan.  (She just recently moved again. hahaha. )  So cool to see that she is going to be making sacred covenants with our Heavenly Father and receiving baptism.

Some fun stuff:  I was able to go to one of the other districts in our area.  It's an island.  QiJin.  Yea.  Had to take a ferry to get to a different part of our area.  It was really cool and weird to be on the water.  It is an exceptionally small island, but was a nice quaint place to ride around and find some people.  :)

Today: Went to Zhongs shop and got a haircut and re-permed my hair.  He saw me at some point after the first time he permed it and said he wanted to do it again in tighter curls.  What do yo think? Hahaha.  Ultimately, what Zhong says, goes.  It won't be as curly as it is in the picture when I do it on my own.  Sister Olson also got her hair cut.  Looks really good!  Zhong really knows his stuff.

I think that is 差不多。。。

Love ya'll!  

Sister Hsu

Oh man.

I was so excited to write and send pictures, only to find out that this internet cafe computer has given my memory card a virus that makes it so that I am unable to upload the photos.  (my stuff got this virus in my first area, it basically makes a bunch of fake folders and hides my real stuff, and there was a man there that helped all of us missionaries clean it out without deleting our stuff.  But I don;t know where to go to get that done here...)  So now I an just very sad and ever so slightly irritated.  I don't know when the next time I'll upload photos is.  We'll see.  

But, as for how this past week was pretty good.  The highlight would have to be that we were about to help out at a special event.  We were originally invited to push wheelchairs, but the number of volunteers exceeded the number of people needing to be pushed, so we ended up directing traffic hahaha, but that was great fun too.

We of course met with our amazing investigators, although it seems as though many of them will soon be moving within the next month or so.. :(  so sad!

Okay, I'm sorry, I'm still upset about my memory card.  I think that is all for now.  See you next week.

Sister Hsu

So many good things this week. :)

But for reals.  So many that I am probably going to forget to mention some of it.  But let's start with investigators...

This weeks lessons with our investigators were so full of miracles and the Spirit.  It's to the point where I don't even know how to describe the amazing things that happened.  But, it felt like with every single investigator we met with this week, the lesson was exactly what needed to be shared, the member present gave inspired testimony and the investigator felt the power of the gospel and decides to make changes that will allow them to more fully feel the Spirit and Heavenly Fathers love.  So good.

Thanksgiving Party!

This week we also had our English Class Party: Thanksgiving Theme!  It was good fun!  We make Pilgrim and Indian hats and played some games.  But, I think my favorite was the spiritual share.  We shared a Mormon Message about the Spirit of Thanksgiving, where they asked the people on the streets of New York what they were thankful for, then we invited everyone to write things that they were thankful for on paper feathers and add them to our Thanksgiving turkey.  :)  Yay!

Cutie Doggies. :)

This week we also had the chance to go and take a look at one of our investigators volunteer places.  I don't know if you know, but Taiwan has an absurd amount of stray dogs running around all over the place.  They are really sad and always super skinny, and if they get picked up by the pound the get humanely euthanized.  So, what our investigator does (she's a part of a volunteer group)  They go around and catch stray dogs and get them neutered and them put them back where they found them.  They worked out an agreement with the government, that if they are neutered them they can't pick em up and kill them.  (If they are neutered, they cut off the tip of one of their ears.)  So, there is a college campus that is literally built into the forest, so there are tons of strays.  She catches them and re-releases some of them, but the school also provides a place to keep a pack of them.  They were so cute!  And there really were so many...  It was cool to see where it is she goes every week and what she does.  They were all really good tempered doggies, albeit still a bit weary or people.  They wouldn't be aggressive to people, but they also won't get especially close.

Lian's Baptism (and how I get around with my bike on the metro)

Another awesome thing that happened this past week?  Lian, an investigator I taught in my last area got baptized!  I was happy to hear the news!  I still remember the first time we met with her to share the gospel (we already knew her from English class) she brought us red tea.  When we told her we don't drink tea, she said, "Well, then I don't think I can ever get baptized, I have to drink my tea."  Hahaha.  Love her!  

Teaching how to bike ride.

Oh! And last but not least, two of our wars members, Yoyo and Sophia are going to be short-term missionaries for a few days!  We are so excited for them!  But, Yoyo didn't know how to ride a bike, she we took some time to teach her.  She picked it up super fast!  Withing the hour.  :)  So Fun.  In case you don't know (because I had never heard of such a thing until I came out on a mission) A short term missionary is a member who goes and does missionary work and lives the missionary life with a full-time missionary.  Short-term missionaries to not get calls and are not set apart and don't need to first go through the temple.  Essentially the are volunteers who help out the mission when ever we are short a full-time missionary, or there are circumstances where short-term missionaries are needed.  I wonder if we have these kinds of opportunities in the states...  :)

Okay, well that's all. 

Love ya'll

Sister Hsu

Just about...

We got a "spiritual growth" journal for our investigator and made our own wrapping paper out of a paper bag and decoration tape. :)

Just about the end on another movecall.  It really feels like time is just starting to fly and slip right through my fingers.  I'm in a weird state "But I just got here" to "I'm just about to my year mark on island"  I really wish to be able to do my best and be continuously diligent!  

On another note, I've really been loving being here is the Shizhong Ward.  The ward is great, the people are great and I just love watching our investigators progress and grow in the gospel.  I feel like watching how people can be so courageous as to begin to make changes in their life, just makes me want to improve myself.  

The weirdest part about this period of time is having to begin thinking about "after the mission school stuff"  It's like I really want to just be able to ignore all that until I am no longer a missionary, but at the same time, I can't do that.  

Wow, I feel like this little email doesn't make much sense...  just know that I am having a great time and love this opportunity I have to help others come unto Christ.

Love you all!

Sister Hsu

More great news.

Sister Chen's Baptism!

Best thing ever?  My last companion Sister Chang told me that an investigator that we had been meeting with was going to get baptized on Friday!  She had actually met with missionaries on and off with missionaries for many years.  Her family was already baptized, and she always came to church and kept the commandments.  She was just trying to figure out why she needed to be baptized.  Our meeting with her was with the hopes of giving her little spiritual boosts so that she could receive the answer she needed.  But, her answer came when she watched General Conference.  The Spirit spoke to her and she decided to be baptized.  Luckily I didn't move very far and was able to attend.  

But, even better was that our investigator was also able to attend.  I feel like the experience really helped to become more curious and accepting of the idea of maybe one day being baptized.

It was a great day.  :)

This is how we go shopping and take it all home with us. Bike-Plane!

We've been really blessed with people coming and asking us about the church.  I feel like it really is a huge blessing for the Lord.  Because we haven't had many investigators recently, we've been doing A LOT of finding.  Tracking, park contacting, street contacting, you name it, but it had been feeling like no matter how many prayers we do to find someone prepared to hear the message of the Restoration, no one wanted to listen.  If anything we had met a number of people that tried convincing us that we were an evil church, or that only the Bible is real and they only need the Bible.  In my moments of weakness, there was always a miracle.  Whether it be a walk-in wanting to know more, or some one who calls us, or a sudden referral.  It's a comfort and a witness to me that the truly is the Lord's work.

English class with Flat Stanley

Okay, well that's all for now folks.  Until next time.

Sister Hsu

Amazing news!

Fang JM was baptized!

It's happened!  Sister Fang! (The miracle Sister I mentioned in my last email) has been baptized!!!  I wasn't able to go, but she sent me pictures and I am just so happy!  And then my previous companion says an investigator we were meeting with together is getting baptized the Friday! So good!  

More miracles?  of course!  We have had a number of people walk into the church asking if they can know more about the gospel and every time we happened to be in the church in a lesson with an investigator when a member comes in and tells us there is someone in the foyer wanting to meet with missionaries.  So cool.  Heavenly Father really is the one who prepares people.  We missionaries just have to make sure we are worthy to represent the Lord in teaching the gospel to God's prepared children.

Fun stuff?  I was able to go on an exchange with the Sister Training Leaders.  I went to their area in Sanmin.  I think Heavenly Father must really love me because I had been thinking about a few people from my last area (Sanmin uses the same church building as my last area) and lo and behold the day we exchanged also had me there to help with the Stake Family History Expo, so I was able to see everyone I had been thinking about while there!  It really was wonderful and amazing.

FHE Power!

Last night we attended the Young Single Family Home Evening with our investigator.  It was tons of fun and learned how to make cards with water-color-pencils.  They are super cool.  Although my drawing skills are near to none, I was still able to make a fairly cute card.

Okay, Well, Until next time!

Sister Hsu

Apparently our building has been here in this part of GaoXiong that we are marked on their city maps... with a cross and "church" (I also saw it marked on the big maps in the subway station. Cool or what.)

Awesome First Week!

Sister Olson and I had an amazing first week together!  We were able to see many miracles in contacting, lessons and finding.  I would tell you all the details, but I don't have much tme left today.  :(  But!  Believe me when I say that I definitely felt the Lord showering blessings all over the place this past week.

 

I'm loving the new ward and area.  GaoXiong is a super awesome place.  Had a great first Sunday, we had four investigators come to church!  Yay!  And the Taipei Temple President also gave us a fireside last night.  I learned so much more about the temple!  He shared with us a video about the temple and it was super clear and informative.  I can see if I can find it.  :)  Okay well that's all this time folks!  Sorry!

 

Sister Hsu

MOVED!

Xiang Xiang (Giselle) drew me! She is super talented. :)

Hello all.  I'm moved again! Had a good move-call in Yuanshan with Sister Chang, but change has come once again.  I am now in ShiZhong with Sister Olson!  (ShiZhong is super close to my last area... maybe like less than 20 minutes by car. Hahah.  I can see one of our more special buildings in Yuanshan from my new apartment.)   She is from Idaho, and is behind me just 2 move-calls.  I can already tell she is a pretty awesome missionary.  Excited to start another move-call.  

But!  recently I've had things weighing on my mind.  As of late Sister that I actually know are finishing their missions or are just about done.  This made me realize that my time is very quickly also coming to an end.  It scared me to that think that in a few days I will hit my year mark since entering the MTC.  I really started to ponder about what I've been doing in this time as a missionary.  Have I been doing my very best?  Or have I gotten too comfortable with life and have become complacent?  Have I been doing all the things that the Lord had wanted me to do or have I been too wrapped up in what I know and what I want to do?  I've begun to evaluate and see what I can do to make sure I am doing all that I should be.  

But, I feel that what I'm thinking now can also be applied to those not on a mission as well.  Our lives are a time a learning, growth and preparation.  Are you doing all you can and should doing in order to come to the end of this life, and face the Lord and know that you really did your very best up until the end of your mortal life?  The time for re-evaluation and change is now!  Don't have regrets.

Awesome members of the Yuanshan Ward! (And little Melody, who is not in my ward, but had the privilege of meeting)

Okay, back on topic, I moved!  I didn't think that it would still be a bit hard to move from an area after only being there for one move-call.  It's at the end of a move-call that I really can say that I'm used to it and have got my bearings.  But, I really did love the members there.  And we had some really good investigators that I just loved teaching.  Luckily I didn't move to far so the chances of seeing them is higher and if my previous investigators get baptized I'll be able to go back and see it.  Yay!

Some of the members of the amazing Wang Family. Tina, Xiang Xiang, and Sister Wang. Sister Wang also has another daughter and a son. Love them!

The wonderful Sister Wang agreed to help me move all my stuff to my new area.  I was able to get my bike and two fairly large suitcases into her van and then we were off.  She really is amazing and so is her vans ability to keep putting things into it.  After some surprises, we also had to unexpectedly fit another bike and Sister into the van.  But!  It all worked out alright.  I don't know how to express how much I just love Sister Wang and her kids they are just too amazing for words.

That's all for now!

Love ya'll!

Sister Hsu

Mission Conference!

We had Mission Conference this week!  It was amazing.  I just love hearing the words of our inspired Mission President, Sister Blickenstaff and President Chen.  I really learned so many new things to help me improve my mission as well as how to become an even better missionary that con go out and find the people the Lord has prepared to hear and make changes for the gospel.  We can only help convert others as far as we ourselves are converted.  Know the gospel!  Learn it!  Study it!  Live it!  :)

Other than Mission Conference, another interesting thing happened.  Church was cancelled because of a typhoon.  It started over here in Gaoxiong, so all school and work were cancelled and closed on Saturday afternoon through Sunday.  A typhoons danger point would have to be the wind.  The bigger the wind, the bigger the chance of be hit in the face by a hunk of something flying around.  But, not to fear!  We had our own little Sunday school and Relief Society lesson at home.  Sister Chang prepared a little Gospel Principles lesson and I prepared something from The Teachings of Joseph Smith book.  It was quite enlightening.  

Well, that's it folks!  Thanks for reading!

Sister Hsu

Pictures:  Some stuff I had posted on Facebook.  :)

So many new friends!

My super awesome raincoat. (My really good, fairly expensive one was lost by the movers, along with everything else that I had in my bike box)

We were able to find 4 new investigators this week!  And they were all just great little miracles.  One of them is a former who met with us for the first time on Tuesday, but in the lesson said that she won't be able to meet until after December because of some stuff.  Needless to say were were a bit devastated, but after feeling and following the promptings of the Spirit, bearing testimony of how the gospel can bless her and giving a few pretty direct invitations, she said she wanted to find the true church and agreed to meet with us every week and that same time.  Miracle!

Our second investigator is a friend we made in English class, we had known her for a while but hadn't gotten around to asking if she wanted to learn the gospel with us.  But, she agreed and we had a good meeting.  But, it turns out that she is in our neighboring district.  But that doesn't matter!  Us missionaries are all here to help others to come unto Christ!

The third was also a former.  We were not too sure of her interest level at first, but we met her on Saturday and she agreed to continue learning and to come to church for the full three hours.  Our wonderful Liu Family invited us, the Elders and our investigators over for dinner.  I think it was a great opportunity for her to feel a bit more comfortable.  (She is the awkward shy type.)

Our fourth is another former investigator, although she is also a bit more special because her mom is a member and she already comes to church every week she can and keeps the commandments.  She has met with missionaries many times before, but always got stumped at the actually deciding to get baptized part.  We are praying to be able to help find out what her concern and need is to help she overcome her worries about baptism.

That's all folks!  Hope you all have been living well and spreading the gospel in your own ways!

Sister Hsu

Random photo of me behind the gate at church.

Lotsa stuff I guess...

What I Eat

We had Stake Conference this past weekend.  It was a great uplifting weekend.  The topic was on "Hastening the Work of Salvation" and "Feed My Sheep."  We learned a lot about how members and missionaries can work together to bring others unto Christ and how we can work as a ward to help members stay strong disciples of Christ, as well as how to uplift and help find those sheep who may have lost their way and gone astray.

This week we were able to meet a pretty golden sounding investigator.  She really is so sweet and great and willing to learn.  She has questions that she has been seeking answers to and we know that the gospel is where she can find them.  Love her!

Jamie

This week is also the last week that we are able to see our beautiful new member Jamie is leaving GaoXiong to go back to college in Hualian.  Gonna miss her!  She is worried about being a new member and having to go to church in a new place, but she is a amazing, she will make it!!

Sister Chang

Recently I've just been really grateful that I have the companion that I do.  We of course are always finding new ways to better our relationship and strengthen our teaching, but I'm happy to know that the Lord always knows exactly what I need.  I Love my companion Sister Chang!!!

Okay, that's about it for this week.  Love you all!

Sister Hsu

LaDiDaaaa....

Jamie was baptized!!!

Jamie!

Who is Jamie you ask? She was a super cute amazing investigator when I first got here.  She already was preparing herself to hit her baptismal goal which was on Saturday.  She is super amazing and although I was only able to meet with her a few times, I will really miss her when she goes back to Hualian for school next week. :(

This past week we also had Sister exchanges.  I went to Sanmin with Sister Johnson.  It was really fun and I learned a lot.  It was also fun to hear how it is that she is able to stay so skinny and fit here in Taiwan.  Turns out a good diet and exercise really go a long way. Haha.

:)

Last but not least, last Monday...  I was able to go to Brother Zhongs shop.  He is a member who is super good at doing hair and does missionaries hair for free as a service opportunity.  Sister Chang went to get her hair cut, but I had just recently gottten my hair cut by him.  He had seen me a few days earlier by chance and immediately said he wanted to perm my hair.  So, on Monday when I went in, that's what he did...  Yup, I got a perm.. sounds scary right?  Hahaha.

Perms weren't as scary as I thought.

Well, I think that's about it.. Oh wait, no, our other investigator Ruby is going to China for a few weeks.  I'm really hoping that when she comes back she was have the time to accept a baptismal goal.  Keep your fingers crossed!

Love you all!

Sister Hsu

Week 1 in Yuanshan: Success!

Week 1 was a good week, I found out that I really do just love Sister Chang.  We have a lot more in common than you'd think.  I've loved getting to know her as well as our investigators and members.  I was able to meet with our investigator Jamie who is getting baptized on Saturday.  She is really just so great and so cute and so ready to enter the waters of baptism.  It will be sad when she has to move back to Hualian for school.  :(  

Yesterday I had the opportunity to go to Kuha'o 's (he is a boy from a Mormon Message) performance.  He really is such a sweet boy with amazing talent.  His heart is full of love and he just wants to be able to share the talent that Heavenly Father gave him with everyone he can.  He was such an example of faith, love, service, and charity.

Biggest surprise, I saw my college friend Erin at Kuha'o 's performance.  Turns out she is in Taiwan for a year for work.  Surprise!

Sister Hsu

New!

Hello! So, last Wednesday we went to the temple!  It was a great experience.  I really do just loving going to the temple.  That same night we also had our English Party, it was basically a huge free-for all for children, hahaha.  There was jump-rope, volleyball, four square, bouncy balls, and chips.  Really, just organized chaos.  :)

OH and Surprise!  I am now in Yuanshan, Gaoxiong!  My new companion Is Sister Chang.  She is from Australia and super awesome.  We were in the same zone the move-call before last.  I absolutely loved my last ward and companion, but I am also so excited to see what kind of miracles this new place, new companion and new ward will bring.

Well, okay.  I'll let you in on the miracles we see next week.  :)

Sister Hsu

Beitun District

Yao Family!

"On the road again"

It's been a great week.

Pretty self-explanatory I think.

This week we had a challenge from our Mission President for every single companionship in the mission to find 3 new investigators.  I don't know if that sounds like a lot or a little to you, but it was an opportunity for us to band together as a mission and really pray for one another and really go out and also try to help your fellow missionaries find new people who have interest in the gospel.  I was feeling the pressure just a bit because it had been a while since we last found 3 new investigators in the same week, but with lots of prayers and throwing my fears and caution out the window, we were able to find our 3 in the first few days, and after that the people who seemed interested lived in neighboring areas or were guys.  So, we were about to give those phone numbers to other missionaries.  On top of being able to help other people, we received a lot of love too.  We got more contacts from other missionaries than ever before.  It was awesome to really feel the love and desire that all of us had to work together to find prepared people to teach.  Now is the really hard part, it to be able to remember that feeling, that drive and have it push me every single week whether or not we are doing it together as a mission.  It was a great experience that showed to me my potential as a missionary, and now is the time to really internalize it and just do it!  SPIRIT FIRE!!

I saw this and thought it was pretty funny. I hope it puts a smile on your face. :)

On another note, our investigator Huang JM is no longer an investigator... She is a new member!  She was baptized on Saturday and confirmed on Sunday!  We are so happy for her!  She really is full of faith and fire.  One of her biggest trials in being baptized was her fear of water, but due to some circumstance she needed to go under twice.  Sister Funk and I were so worried about her, but happy that while she was in the font, she was wiling to do it again.  While she was changing we asked her how she was doing and she said, "I wasn't scared!"  Sister Funk and I truly believe that her having to do it twice was a blessing from the Lord so that she could grow even more in confidence and faith.  She is awesome!

Huang JM was baptized!

Okay, well I think that is all for now.

Love you all!

Sister Hsu

P.S.  We are going to the temple on Wednesday.  So excited!