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.
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| 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!
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| 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.
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| 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!
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| 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
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