Bowling as a Zone
Face Masks for Female Fun
So I have these types of moments with my companion everyday:
"We are in Taiwan, in skirts, being missionaries.... spreading the Gospel?" My life is so blessed. :)
I havent gotten an email from you guys yet, and so it gives me a little bit of time to gather my thoughts before I want to respond to all of your guys crazy week.
First off... My sister is married, and I missed it. So hard. So crappy. So not fun. I PRAYED my GUTS out that I would be ok the day of the wedding, and its a miracle that I was. Thanks for praying for me too. I know I couldnt have made it through the day without your prayers. Heavenly Father took really good care for me and I know he took just as much care for you guys too. All my roommates wore coral tops, and I got to wear the skirt mom made for me. We celebrated her wedding by eating mini "wedding cakes" at dinner, and we all prayed for Audrey. I hope she had a good day, and I hope that everyone else did too. Im DYING to hear about it. I almost doesnt even feel like it happened? Its such a strange feeling to try and describe. I have thought about you guys so much! I cant wait to see pictures.
This week was incredible. So many stories to tell, and all so fantastic. Its so sad I cant tell you all the details about every person and everything that has happened. BUT its ok. :) I can give you highlights!
We have 8 progressing investigators and all of the have baptismal goals! Ridiculous right? There is so much work to do in this area, and I am so excited for these amazing people. We are teaching 3 families, and a couple of teenage girls. Its crazy how fast you "fall in love with these people".
One friend we are working with is Meng Ying Ying. Do you remember me mentioning her last week? She had her baptismal interview this Saturday! She is getting baptized! We are so so so excited for her and she is so incredible. We had a lesson on prophets earlier this week, and Sister Lew asked her a hypothetical question: "What would you ask President Thomas S. Monson if he was coming to Taiwan." Her face was like in shock and she got so humbled, and she responded: "The prophet is coming?" It was such a sweet tender moment that right there in the lesson I totally broke down, and started balling. She has such pure simple faith and she hasnt even seen him or heard him or met him, and she totally believes he is a man of God. Such a sweet humbling moment for me. She is going to China to drop off her youngest son to have him raised by his Grandpartents for a couple of years while she raises her other little boy. Mom it totally made me so so grateful that you were a stay at home mom and raised 6 kids. When I told that to Sister Meng, she freaked out. ha Such an amazing lady with so much faith. She is such a great mom too.
Last night we had a meeting with the Bishop to see how we could help him with the ward, and afterwords we got to talk to the Young Women about how being in Young Womens has effected our life up to this point. It was so fun. Those girls are so great, and help out with so much missionary work with us. I love them. There are actually 3 of them who are the bishops kids and grew up in America so they are like American teenagers. Its so fun talking to them. They remind me of my family. I shared this experience I had with getting an answer to my prayers about my Patriarchal Blessing through the scriptures and how that experience forever effected how close I was to the Lord and how that ripple effect has effect all my life's decisions including me coming on a mission. It was so crazy that I shared that because as I was sharing the Lord totally blessed me realize that. I have never thought of that before and it was really sweet being able to share it with the Young Women.
The Lord has taken good care of me this week. Its been a really humbling week. ha
There was one day where Sister Lew had to go to a training meeting so I got to go on splits with Sister Cooper and Sister Smith. It was so much fun! We had a couple of self contacts, and it was great learning from other missionaries how the contact and how they do missionary work. I learned SO much and I feel really grateful to get to go on Sister splits early. We were tracting in this one place, and we bummed into a lady who was going home, we said hi to her and immediately she started yelling at us telling we needed to go back to America because we are wasting our breath and offending the people of Taiwan by telling them they need to change. She wanted us to stop talking to people at stop lights, and leave them alone. It was such an unexpected response, but Sister Smith said something magical I couldnt really understand and seriously the next thing that came out of her mouth, was: "Sure come up stairs". Can you believe it? You just never know who or when people will be ready to receive the gospel.
The biggest lesson I learned this week, that the Lord works in his own time and in his own way. I am so stressed out about Chinese but through prayer and experiece I know it will come.
My companion is awesome. I love her to death, and we get along creepily well. :) She is like Ms. Mozart, but is an rapper. So funny.
It rained like everyday this week. We got to buy some rad rain coats, and the Elders made fun of us for looking like Taiwan Grandmas. I love it will all my heart, and almost hope for rain so I can wear it. ha
I was introduced to Bing this week. Its like shaved Ice with brown sugar and lots of squishy stuff you can put on the bottom. ha I didnt like it at all, but I hear my taste buds go through a change and Ill crave it in the summer. We shall see.
Man I love you gusy so much. I have a tape ready to go and pictures Im sending today so that fun huh?
I love you all so much. Thanks for sending the pictures. It was really good to see them. Tell Audrey and Davey hi for me!!
Everyone be really good and dont forget to serve each other. Find some small way you can make eachothers day better. :)
Read, Pray, and CTR
Love,
Sister Camille Lee
No comments:
Post a Comment