Week 34 - Wo hen kuile! That means I am really happy.

A Pet Pig!

Birthday Bash!

Oct 17

I’m being tempted!!

I have never experienced true temptation on my mission until now... The man to my left is watching the last part of Harry Potter 7?? I’m dying people...DYING?! But still surviving and not looking at his screen. Be proud.

All of my roommates write to their families in Chinese. Or they put Chinese words into their emails, and I think that would be good for you guys to be a tad bit cultured so that is what I am going to do to.

In Taiwan, if someone asks you if you want something you have to say bu yao, or bu yong. That means. I don’t want it. I don’t use it. It sounds so rude, but that is how you have to communicate with these people. Straight forward. I think we could all learn a good lesson form the Taiwanese. In some ways they communicate way healthier than Americans. When my companion wants me to give it to her straight she says: "Stop being an American." ha its funny... I encourage everyone to be more straightforward about what you feel and what you want. It’s the way to go. You actually get what you want or don’t want and you communicate your feelings.

Today was Sister Rigby’s birthday celebration. We all sang her Happy Birthday in our man morning voices as the alarm was still going off this morning. It was pretty funny. We spent the day shopping, eating and all getting our hair cut. We took pictures, and laughed all day. It was so much fun. Tomorrow is actually her real birthday, but tomorrow is sister exchanges so I won’t be here. I’ll be with another Sister doing some missionary work somewhere else. :) She had a great day. I know it. I took so many pictures of her today I felt like Mom. It was such a good feeling. :) Oh! We went out to eat today, and I didn’t like my noodles. I have been here long enough to taste a difference between good noodles and bad noodles. It’s exciting!

On Tuesday we were eating at our regularly Douhua place. We were leaving and the cute worker started talking to us. She was so cute and so nice, and started asking us all sorts of questions. She has lived in Tokyo, Japan for the last 20 years and was visiting this weekend. We invited ourselves back into the place and sat down with her, so we could continue talking to her. It was great getting to know her. We just started talking about how much our missions have changed our lives, and how grateful we are for the knowledge of the gospel, and how it has blessed our family... by the end of the lesson she was crying and telling us that the reason why she was in Taiwan was because she was there for her brothers funeral. She was really sweet, and we were able to give her a Book of Mormon. We got her information and we will send it to Japan, but I know she has the most important book ever. I really hope she reads it. It’s will change her life!

Remember that great investigator Cherry we met last week that was from the Philippines? Well she disappeared. She won’t answer her phone. It’s so bizzaro that this keeps happening. We have amazing great first sit-downs, and then they disappear. ??? Well we went to go hunt her down, and thought about lingering around the 7 / 11 where we met her. ha We didn’t find her unfortunately but, we did find another miracle sit down. She was smoking outside, and so we naturally started talking to her. (That’s what we do…We are missionaries.) Come to find out, she had been to church before and she loved it. We gave her a B of M and she was reading before we got on our bikes. We have a meeting set up with her this week. It’s going to be great getting to know her a little bit more.

We saw success and the Lord blessed us by finally meeting a couple of our Less Actives and Recent Converts that we haven’t met all move call?! We were SO excited. Because of their schedule and their stubbornness its been really really hard to meet up with them, but we got to meet some of them this last week, and it was great. We had great lessons, and invited lots of them to start praying and reading again.

Hmm what else? All is well over in Tanzi. I love my companion, I love my ward, I love my cute Recent Converts Less Active's, and I love those people I don’t really know yet. We had 2 solid progressing investigators, and they just kinda dropped off into the middle of no-where and so we are still faithfully searching for those ready and willing to change their lives and accept this gospel.

I love you guys. Thanks for updating me, and keeping me involved in your life. I love you all so very much. I pray for you like all the time. :)

Love you!

Sis Lee

Week 33 - General Conference is just as good as getting letters in the mail.

Oct 9 - Read this one…it’s pretty funny!

I loved this weekend! I can’t believe that its over. I feel like this October conference was way faster than any other session I have watched. Maybe time speeds up really fast as a missionary because it even felt like the prayers were shorter than usual? Of course it was all really good and I have a million favorite parts but I will tell you the ones that are coming to my mind right now. Elder Scotts talk on memorizing scriptures. I have already memorized Psalms 37:5 "Commit thy ways unto the Lord, and trust also in him, and he shall direct thy paths." Good one huh? :) I also cried all through Sister Daltons talk cause Dad is like my best friend ever, and he had followed all of her advice to the T. It was such a peaceful feeling knowing that I am already "grown up" and have been so well taken care of by my dad. Also I loved loved Elder Richardson’s talk about teaching by the spirit. I just so happen to be a missionary type teacher and so that was something I really loved hearing. Anyways... Conference weekend was the bomb.

It was also Sister Bryce’s birthday this weekend and so we celebrated with birthday cake between sessions, and eating smores at night. Its so much fun living in a 4 man. My companion is my bestest friend ever. I’m so lucky.

This week was really good. Extra good for some reason? We worked really really hard, and I think that is why it felt so good. I mean we work hard everyday, but you know... its just that satisfaction you get when you hit your goals, and you are doing all you can type feeling.

The Lord blessed us with a miracle this week. Sister Rigby and I had to use the bathroom at 7/11 and we bumped into a friend. She was staring at us, and so we went over and talked to her. She started speaking to us in English, which was a pleasant surprise. Her name is Cherry and she is from the Philippines. She is married to a Taiwanese man, and she has to great little boys. We happened to catch her right after work. She asked why we were in Taiwan and so we just started testifying that our church was true. We asked her if she has time to sit down with us right then, and she did! We pulled up chairs to a table and we taught her a first lesson. She told us that she was lonely in Taiwan, and that she was having a hard time at work. It was great timing meeting her because she was humble and ready to listen to our message. She is so cute, and I know she really felt the spirit. We told her that God is aware of her, and loves her and she cried. Its crazy what miracles can happen as a result of a bathroom break. Tons of moments happen like this every week. Its such a blessing to see Gods hand in our plans, and in our day. Well Cherry was willing to come to General Conference this weekend! She came totally soaked it up, and left an hour later than she was supposed too because she was so wrapped up in the spirit. I am so grateful that we have found a prepared investigator! Yahoo for missionary work.

On another good note. Someone on the road this week was willing to set up with us, because my companion made her laugh her head off. I contacted this lady on the railroad tracks last night. Because of traffic I ended up somehow in front of her instead of beside her. Sister Rigby noticed so she rode ahead of me, parked her bike on the railroad tracks, and then went over and stood next to the girl and started teaching with me. :) We got her information, we set up a time, and we were talking to her about baptism when the railroad tracks lights started beeping and flashing. haha ok. haha. So anyways. My companion goes into panic mode and starts yelling and flailing her arms about as she runs back to her bike. Because she was scared she obviously had a hard time thinking rationally about how to get her bike off the tracks. Instead of kicking up her kick stand and calmly rolling her bike to safety she starts dragging it towards herself in the possibly the most incontinent way possible. Me and this cute woman were dying laughing. It was so hilarious. She was screaming and seriously stressed out, and all I did was cry with laughter. It was so great. I am excited for this person to get to meet us on Tuesday. She is going to love us. I just started telling Sister Rigby about what I was typing and she had already told her family, and so I am going to include her version as well. :)

Sister Rigby version:

Next story. Yesterday we were riding home and my comp saw a girl on a scooter waiting for the train to pass. We went over and talked to her and ended up pulling to the side to swap info. Im a dummy and parked my bike right by the tracks and got off to go talk to her. Right as I was telling her about baptism and committing her to be baptized (because that’s what we do here) I was just in the middle of "Are you willing" when the ding ding ding of the railroad went off and the lights started flashing. I immediately forget everything except getting my bike away from the train and basically yelled the rest of my sentence at her, didn’t wait to hear her answer and ran frantically over to my bike before the things could close on me. Obviously incapable of thinking rationally, instead of kicking up my kickstand and rolling my bike calmly to safely, I went into panic mode and started dragging my bike sideways, very slowly but not on purpose, my bike was seriously like, not moving. So then in my frantic state I start like, grunt yelling as I huff and puff my bike sideways and just as the things start closing I finally make it to the other side. This to me felt like an hour when in reality this all happened within about 15 seconds. I finally realized what an idiot I must look like and look up to see my comp in tears, screaming laughing and then I look behind me and the girl is like, wide mouth laughing at me. They were seriously hysterical. The only thing my comp could get out was, " You looked.....so .... Intense.....so concentrated.....and panicked! Why didn’t ..... you just..... kick up ...your kickstand!!?? "

She was gasping for breath. She thought it was hilarious and so did the woman I yelled a baptismal goal at. She later told me as I ran over I was flailing my arms about. Who we are meeting with next Tuesday :) As we were riding away we were both in tears laughing at how incapable I am of remaining calm and my comp says, "well, at least we know she thinks were funny, now she’s like, ten times more likely to show up to meet with the weirdo Americans." Oh good.

Well I love life, and missionary work. Thanks for all your prayers and love and support. I am so lucky to have this gospel. I am lucky to know that I am divine, and that I can have lasting happiness in this life. It’s all because Jesus Christ is my savior and Joseph Smith was willing to pray about his salvation.

I love you guys...

Love Sis Lee

Week 32 - Whata week :)

Oct 3, 2011

Hi Hi Hi family...

We went to an amusement park today. SOO much fun! The weather was kinda cloudy today and so there were only 5 other people at the park. We got to ride every ride as many times as we wanted, and we definitely took full advantage of that. The bumper cars man let us bump into each other for an hour and a half. I am so sore….so worth it though.

We had a good week. Every week is a good week really. We had Zone Conference, which was a spiritual pump up. We talked about the importance of covenants, and it made me grateful for my own convents I had made, and made me super excited to help my investigators prepare to make the covenants of baptism.

So we are still having a really fun time trying to find investigators. I know that there are prepared people everywhere, but the trick is that they don’t even know it. We talk to a ton of people everyday, and we set up lots of apts. People just don’t show up all the time, but that’s the life of a missionary. :)

We decided to start going places where no other missionaries have gone. Our thought process was that maybe more people would be more receptive to our message because they have never seen us... The places include the mountains, and little tiny roads that are inconveniently out of the way. We have been seeing success though, and so our strategy is working!! ha We got chased my a three legged dog, had a lesson with an Amah who thought I looked like Joseph Smith, and met a couple of really cute families, along with cute girls our age. It’s also been good because we have gotten to know our area better.

We have one cute investigator who is a nurse. She is so spunky, and her family is so Buddhist. We met with her right after Zone Conference and so we were pumped. We were really frank with her about reading, praying, and our purpose and it was such a great lesson. She agreed to read, and pray. Due to her crazy schedule we only get to see her once a week, but we have been following up with her, and she is doing great. (Her name is Yi Chang)

Our other great investigator didn’t come to church yesterday. I was about to cry/strangle her. She promised. We ran over to her house 10 min before sacrament meeting started and she didn’t answer her phone when the security guard called her. He wouldn’t let us go upstairs and pound down her door. She promised that she was going to come. She loved church last week!! I don’t know what happened? We were sad, and because she doesn’t have a house or cell phone we haven’t been able to get a hold of her. I’ll keep you posted.

All right, well I am super glad everyone had a wonderful conference weekend. Our goal this week is to get all our investigators to at least one session of general conference. I am SO excited I can hardly wait... :) Ok. Well I love being a missionary, and I wouldn’t rather be doing anything else right now. This message changes people and it’s changing me. I am learning so much everyday. What it means to be bold, and loving. What it means to sacrifice, what it means to listen and to find and teach by the spirit. What it means to study the scriptures, and how rewarding it is when you reach your goals.

Study conference. Read it on line. Eat it up. It’s the best thing in the world right now. Literally.

I love you all so much. Can’t wait to talk to you next week.

xoxo

Love, Sis Lee

Week 31 - Bats, Heart Attacks and Fat Cats!

Bowling on P-day!

Sept 26, 2011

I just copied the subject line from my companion. She is way more creative than I am. ha

I shall explain: Bats: We have them everywhere.... She is terrified of them, and she sometimes wont bike behind me because there are bats in the road. haha So funny.

Heart attacks: This week we went and visited a ton of less actives in our ward. It was good because we got to know our area a lot better, and find their houses so next time we are by there house we can go visit them. At each door we left three little hearts in a cute little cluster on their front door so they would feel loved. We haven’t been able to get a hold of any of them, so we don’t know if they saw them. But it was really fun, and who doesn’t feel loved when they come home to a heart surprise on their door from the sister missionaries. :)

Ok speaking of less actives, and heart attacks... Last night we went to go visit a recent convert we have never met before. Her mom answered the door and we talked to her for a second. She wasn’t home so we were about to leave, and I asked her if I could give her a hug. She laughed and smiled and totally was not into it. She told me she didn’t want a hug, and that Taiwanese people aren’t used to that. So I backed off and was like ok no biggie. Well for some reason she lingered and kept asking us questions about our church and the gospel. I love it when people ask questions. :) Anyways we ended up teaching her and saying a prayer. It was really cool. Well we were getting ready to leave a second time and I again asked her again if I could give her a hug. She said no again with a big smile on her face, so I started to head toward her with my arms stuck out and she started to back up and kept smiling and shaking her head, so I just chased her down the street and gave her a big hug that she didn’t really want. I’m pretty sure I gave her a heart attack. haha

Fat Cats: We went bowling as a district today, and it was a lot of fun. Sister Riby destroyed. 131. I got 48. haha It was great fun, and we took a lot of classic pictures. Oh and the best part is that its seriously seconds away from our house. We totally gotta go again.

Anyways this week was good! We have three investigators! Three more than last week. Yahoo! We are excited. One was a former referral form the Elders. She’s twenty, cute, works, willing to get baptized, and her family doesn’t even oppose. I am so grateful for previous diligent missionaries that planted seeds so I could have a chance to teach our new friend.

Liu JM is also another former from years and years and years ago. She still has an old translation of the Book of Mormon in Chinese. Sister Riby found her on the road. She doesn’t have a home phone, but that’s ok. She keeps her word, and every time she said she would be at the church, she was. She is kinda in a rough patch in life, and so is willing to change. Boy I am grateful for solid members because she had a lot of questions we wouldn’t have been able to answer unless Lin Jm was there. We are excited to teach her how the Atonement can better work in her life.

Our third investigator is a cute little nurse. She came to church all by her self a couple of weeks ago, and she loved it. She’s really busy and we don’t even see her during the week, but we have been teaching her over the phone, and she’s been keeping her commitments. She’s really great.

All week we have been outside coming up with crazy ways we can come up with new investigators and have started noticing when the better times and places we need to be so we can increase our chances of getting people to set up with us.

You would think it would have been a long terrible week, but it was great! We got to know our area, our members, the map, and things not to do, and places not to go. We have a fantastic District Leader and another companionship of sisters that have been nothing but encouraging. :) I’m learning lots, and my companion and I are growing together.

Ok so another highlight from this week was Sister Tan's birthday. All three of my roommate’s birthdays are in the month of October/September. Fun huh! Thank goodness I have an AMAZING mom who has taught me that birthdays are a big deal, and that making them be a big deal is important. She was so spoiled and we had a blast! We get to celebrate two more times before the move-call is over.

I can’t believe that General conference is this weekend! I am so excited, and so jealous!! We won’t get to watch it for another couple weeks, but I am also stoked. Everyone to remember to prayerfully think of a question you wants to get answered. It will and you deserve that revelation from your Father in Heaven.

When we were meeting with Lin JM our member was so great at bearing really good testimony about how individual this gospel is. We can never forget that. It’s about our salvation, our choices, our happiness, our dedication to the Lord, our willingness to keep the commandments, and our personal relationship with him. How grateful I am for that personal relationship. It’s grown a lot stronger on my mission. :)

I love you guys!! I hope everyone has a great week!! xoxo

Love Sister Lee

Week 30 - Week of Mini Miracles and Seed Planting

Us loving the Mac & Cheese her grandma sent.

My legs...my poor legs! I have 62 Bites!

Me and my Companion

My Roommates

Sept 19, 2011

Hi Hi Hi Everyone!

It was a great week. The weather was beautiful and the Lord really blessed us... Because we don’t have any investigators we had a lot of time to go meet the ward, and so it was really great getting to know them better and find out where their houses were. We met the whole Bishopric and the whole Relief Society Presidency, as well and the Stake President and the Old Mormon families in the ward. I am so grateful we have such a great ward!! I’m so spoiled to be here. Once we get investigators I know that we will be so loved and well taken care of.

Here is the week in a nutshell.

Monday: We went to go meet the Bishop and his family! We were worried about getting a little lost and so we actually got to his house early, and so we decided to go tracting nearby. We noticed a lady on a scooter randomly in the road and so we headed over her way. We just started talking to her, and when we were bearing simple testimony that God knows her and loves her and knows her situation and she just started balling! Sister Riby and I were taken a back and just kept testifying. We prayed with her, and asked her if she could give us her information so we could tell her more about how we can strengthen our relationship with God and she refused. She has our phone number and church address and so maybe someday she will call or at least remember the night she met the sister missionaries and so the next time she meets the missionary she is prepared. It was so cool. The spirit was so strong, and we both new that it was all God timing that we bummed into that night. We made it to the Bishops house on time, and had a great lesson with his family. He gave us a lot of names we of people in the ward we can go visit. So cool!

Tuesday: Had a wonderfully inspiring DTM about becoming a Preach my Gospel missionary. I am so grateful for leaders that lift, bless, encourage, and inspire. That night we met with Sally! She is our only investigator right now, and she is a former. She speaks English and its so weird teaching and talking to people in English about the gospel. I would so much rather do it in Chinese. ha She is great! She loves Jesus, and we set up a time with her to meet later on in the week.

Wednesday: We went to go visit the Primary President and her cute little boy asked his mom why missionaries were so ugly. It was so classic, and so funny. Kids don’t lie. :)

Thursday passed off Phase 1!! Yahoo! That means that I get to start studying characters. We met with Sally again, and it was a little discouraging. We has an awesome lesson about the Restoration, and she totally believes that Joseph Smith was prophet and the Book of Mormon is the word of God, and that this is Christ’s church, but she thinks that all churches are Christ’s' church. It’s so hard when you don’t know how to help your investigators.

Friday: Met with the Relief Society President. Had a great meeting with her, and she helped us get to know a lot about the ward, and the families in the ward. She is so great. We had a mini miracle happen and we met with an investigator that came to church by her self last week and called to set up with us. She is our age and a nurse. She is super and busy, but really sincere and the cutest thing ever. Mana from the Heavens I tell you. We were so excited.

Saturday: The Elders had a baptism and so we invited Sally to come. She LOVED it, and totally understood the symbolism and totally felt the spirit. When we explained that we are baptized the way Jesus was baptized she was eating it up and we were all pumped because we knew she was going to accept our baptismal invitation. We asked her to follow the example of Jesus Christ and be baptized and she politely declined. She has already been baptized, and once was good enough. It was such a let down and discouraging, but that is missionary work. You live and you learn. You fall down and you get back up.

Sunday: Was a hard day. Sorta a bust. Church was good, but Sally came to church, and then left? One of the members told us.. We found out that because she came during the sacrament and so because she couldn’t go in, she just left. Sad, but there is always next week. After Ward Correlation we left to go to our apts and everyone either canceled, rescheduled or stood us up. We came home for dinner totally discouraged. Before we left the house again we had no plans, but we said a big prayer that we would be led on where to go, and what to do. We decided to go tracting. We both agreed on a spot, parked our bikes and started tracting. The first house we knocked on let us in. We taught their family, asked them to be baptized and we are going back to see them on Tuesday. It was such a miracle. I was so so humbled and thankful that we had such a prepared family fall into our laps. The power of the Holy Ghost is real and he loves his missionaries. The Lord is so good to us. We had a lot of success that night. One other lesson with an investigator that we are visiting later that week, and 6 other people we have apts with. We were so so grateful.

Ok. Ya that was my week in a nutshell. I love you all! Talk to you next week.

xoxo

Love Sis Lee

Week 29 - I like where I live now! :)

The chicken sandwich that brought us together!

Getting ready for the baptism.


Saying good bye to the Zhou Family.

My English class friends.

Having fun with my Comp! :)

Sister Tan and Sister Rigby's convert that Sister Bryce and I got to meet.

Sep 12, 2011

Hi family,

I moved! :)

It was Wednesday night and Sister Liu got the call from President to be trainer. I secretly knew it was coming.... :) I am now in the most northern part of my mission. Tanzi. Its great. I think it still counts as a small city, but its a really big city compared to where I just came from. I am living in another 4 man apartment. Its fun as usual. :) My companions name is Sister Rigby and she is from Utah. She is like an in the closet cowgirl, and she’s absolutely beautiful. She loves to laugh and is so easy to get along with. I just love her. (I love all of my companions.)

Because of the special circumstances, I left my area on Friday morning and started move call a couple days early. The other companionship living with us is Sister Tan, and Sister Bryce. Sister Tan is training Sister Bryce. :) One of the members from the Tanzi ward took us out to lunch today, and it was SO much fun. All you can eat Taiwanese buffet. It was so great. The whole mission knows that Tanzi Ward has the most amazing members. I am so blessed to be here.

So yeah... There you go. That’s my new status. I’m up north, I live with 4 girls, and I have the best ward in the whole mission. I like it up here. Don’t get me wrong. I miss my companion, and my area, and my investigators. I went to say goodbye to the Shi Family and I cried a lot. I made them pinky promise me that I would see them next year at the Temple. Oh. Speaking of Temple. I get to go this move call because I am up North. I’m excited. :)

I was SO blessed before leaving Daliao and we has Sandy’s baptism. That was the only day her grandparents could come, and it just so worked out that was the last night in my area. We didn’t have any kid baptism close so she wore a big persons suit, and she looked so cute all swallowed up in it. She was really afraid to get in the water, and started crying before we got into the water. (She has never been swimming before) Sister Liu and I said a prayer with her and a couple of members that were trying to comfort her. After the prayer she wiped off her tears and climbed into the font. She was so brave and did it! She was still a little shaky getting out of the water, but we were so proud of her for still doing it without a big fuss even though she was terrified of the water. The Lord listens to every prayer big or small. It’s powerful.

Afterwards she bore the cutest testimony. She said how grateful she was to everyone who supported and comforted her before getting baptized, and that she knows heavenly father loves her because he comforted her before her baptism and made her feel so warm and happy after her baptism. She started crying and got all emotional. Her grandma was there on the front lines to see everything, and it was just a really special moment I hope they both remember forever. I will miss her, but we will be forever friends.

So I love my new area, but the only thing about it, is that we have zero investigators. None. Nada. Zip. I’m slightly feeling somewhat of a lot of pressure to find people to teach and to hit our goals for the month. My companion was only here for 2 weeks before I was, and so we are practically are white washing the area. Its sorta kinda nuts, and I’m nervous, but I know we are going to see miracles in this area. The ward is incredible, and Sister Rigby is great. We have a lot of faith, and mighty prayers to match. I don’t know what to do or where to start really, but I know it’s going to be ok. I know that I am not doing this alone, and that the Lord knows better than both my and I. He knows what this area needs, and where we need to be so we can find those people are ready to receive us.

Ok... I’m I still funny? Do my emails still sound like my self? Can you still see my talking to you through this computer screen? I sure hope so. It would be terribly boring to read my emails every week if it didn’t feel like me.... I’m ok right? Ok. Good. I’m fine. I feel better. :)

I pray for you like all the time. (Its true cause I really pray all the time. I’m a missionary) I love you my dear little family. Talk to you soon.

Love Sis Lee

Week 28 - My Week

Nina...my atheist friend.

Cold Stone on P-day

Pink: Me, Green: Sister Liu

Sept 5, 2011

Every week Dad writes me what happens each day, and I love it. So that is what I am going to do for you guys this week.

Monday: Wrote you, rode my bike in a typhoon, and played with the sisters in my zone and taught my cute little Sandy. This is my favorite thing that she told us on Monday night. Us: “Sandy why do you want to get baptized?" Sandy: “Because when I prayed about it, it felt good, and I felt warm, and I know Jesus loves me."

Tuesday: Was district training meeting! So much fun. Its great seeing all my friends, and getting excited about each others success. Elder Huang gave a great lesson on the importance of asking questions. Asking questions gives us a chance to let the spirit teach. We did a practice where we could only teach the principle of Repentance asking questions. It was really cool because "the investigator" teaches themself and it allows the spirit to guide the lesson. It was a totally inspired topic, because as we used what we learned this week Sister Liu and I found our lessons were lots more effective. We have amazing leaders in my mission. DTM is always such a great part of my week.

Wednesday: Got a package from Mom!! Such a great way to end my day. I shared my airheads with my Sister Liu, and we both had fun eating American candy. The day was packed with little small miracles. Every single former and less active person we called that day was willing to set up an appointment. We were thrilled. Sandy had her baptismal interview and passed. :) We are so excited for her.

Thursday: There is an old lady that sits in a wheelchair in front of her house everyday, and watches traffic go by. Because she lives on the same road the church is on we see her every single day and wave. :) She loves seeing us, and we love seeing her. One of our morning apts didn't show up, and so we decided to go say hi. She has three kids that are all grown up and live in Taipei. She is 86 years old, and has the most beautiful smile. It was really great getting to know her. We prayed with her before we left, and invited her to church. I am grateful that we had time to go and see her. She’s great. Last week we met a great couple on the road. We invited them to church, but they weren’t able to make it. We invited the wife to a relief society activity instead. She came and brought the whole family, and we were thrilled. On Thursday we went to go visit the family and it was so great seeing them. They live in a part of our area we had never been to before and so it was fun taking a long summer bike ride out to their house. Nothing beats teaching families.

Friday: Nins my atheist friend went off to college and so the last time we saw her was Friday for lunch. She is great. She is getting baptized....just not yet. :) The sisters in the district next to us baptized a family of 4 girls two weeks ago, and we found out that they actually lived in our ward boundaries. So Friday night we met with the Yuansan sisters and our great new recent convert family. It was a miracle that we found their house. Totally 100% a tender mercy. We were just riding around and bumped into it. We beat the other sisters to the house, and got to meet the family before they got there. The mom has such great faith. It’s amazing how quickly you can fall in love with strangers.

Saturday: We ate lunch with Sis Zhang. She is one of our great eternal investigators. We ate at some place off the side of the road that was out of control good. I ate Pig colon, pig foot, and pig liver. I was really proud of myself.

Sunday: Sundays are the most rewarding day of the week I think. You work so hard with your investigators and members all week, and work hard to help them come to church. When they come to church you are SO excited because they get to take the sacrament and get super blessed. Sunday is like taking a big breath of air, and just spiritually relaxing and letting every part of you just enjoy sitting in church and helping your investigators just soak in the goodness! We met with the Shi family, and talked to them about their temple goal. I just love them. :)

Monday: Sister Liu and I went to Cold Stone! On the way we bought awesome matching watches and cute new skirts for 50quai?! So cheap. So great. ha It was really fun, and relaxing. Later tonight we have plans to get stuff ready for Sandy’s baptism on Wednesday and meet with the Ward Coordinator to figure it all out. We are also going to go visit her and have a lesson on Enduring Conversion.

I love being a missionary. So many tender mercies happen each day. Its so great meeting new friends and helping others follow Christ and seeing how they get to grow and realize how this gospel can bless their life. I love you all soo much. I pray for you, did you know? Until next week… :)

Love Sis Lee