Monday, November 3, 2014

So I've decided to consolidate my weekly letter to 5 main points for the week :) so, lets see how this goes.

1. People have their agency.  It's hard to accept the truth sometimes.  You have to fight really hard for your investigators, and even then they may stop.  We had two people die (fizzle out) as investigators this week...RIP until the right person comes along ;)

2. With all the biking I'm doing I'm going to have FANTASTICALLY  sculpted legs...but with all the grease and fat that is in the food I'm going to get fat...so we'll see.

3. Some funny things from the week
A. I've found out how to tell if someone is drunk.  They start speaking to me in English.  Sometimes really bad English (probably what my Chinese sounds like) One of them kept praying and playing the guitar and he kept telling us he knows he's not supposed to drink, but God told him it was okay...hmmm

B. On every moped there's either a dog or a little kid between their legs.  They just have these huge dogs sit or stand between their legs while they're going 100 miles an hour.

C. In English we say "yea" or "mmhmm" when we're having a conversation as a sign that we agree...In Taidong since they have a lot of Tai yu influence they say, "hey" which is yes or afirmative in Tai yu. Talking to people is really distracting because they'll say, "heyheyhey"  a LOT.

4. God has people prepared for us and it's our job to find them.  PERSEVERANCE! We're looking for the ones who are searching for the truth, wanting to change their lives; not the ones who slam the door in our faces.  It's definitely been a learning experience.  The language is coming SO SLOW!!! but it's coming.

5. Miracle Sunday! We had one of our investigators come to church!!! The sacrament meeting consisted of people bearing testimony about how they came to know God exists and the Book of Mormon is true :) We also found a new investigator.  We had been knocking on doors to no avail and talking to people..no luck.  The last door we knocked on had a girl who was Christian, she reads and prays pretty much every day, and she accepted baptism. YES!

Well, that's about it for this week! have an amazing week everyone :)

Yu Jie Mei

Look at the black sign in back of her.

Sisters Fisher and Chu

Apparently she's showing us her food but she didn't tell me what it was.