Week 61

I have owed my family a mass email for about a couple move calls now. ha

Weeks highlights:

We met with a former investigator this week that has come back ready to get baptized. For real! She was a self-contact a couple of weeks ago, and came to the office looking for some peace and happiness in her life. She brought a friend to chruch this week, as well as some hair product for my hair. ha She works at a hair salon so she thinks of nice gifts like that. She really likes prophets, and it’s exciting to see her countenance dramatically change from lame to happy.

Every Friday morning at 7:45 we skype with the Taipei mission. We are working with them to create a new family history pass along card. It’s been fun drawing up cards, and writing vision statements. The Mission presidents are approving it today so hopefully they like it.

Yang Didi (my little friend that got baptized) played catch with us in the church parking lot, and it was a blast. I still haven’t given you guys pictures, but he is so fat and oh so cute. Another recent convert went and got ice cream sundays with us and afterwards we relaxed and enjoyed each others company. We are working on Yang Didi's Mom.... Forever Families!!

The ward is struggling, but it’s a good thing we have three super duper companionships assigned to the ward. ha Hopefully things start turning around.

On Friday night we were contacting and we prayed to find a good referral worth giving away. We walked around forever hoping to bump into somebody, and at the very end of the night we spotted a girl on her scooter over by the hospital. She didn’t have any religion, and was looking for purpose in her life. Didn’t live in our area. So we said a prayer with her, and sent her information to the neighboring city. I learned on my mission that God really does answer our prayers.

xo

i love you guys,

This chruch is true.

Week 60

 Sister Liang

Hi Mom... It is really good to hear from you.

I feel so bad about not sending home good emails. The family only knows 1/16 of what really happens. Ha I will just tell everyone stories when I get home.

  

My new companion is great. She is Sis Liu’s best friend and so we get along great. We don’t have any investigators that are looking to get baptized right now and so it will be fun finding and people together. The ward mission leaders girl friend is her trainer and so everyday he is calling us and fellowshipping us. ha (that sounds weird in English) Anyways... yeah she is great and its going to be a great move call.

That is so so cool about Asako!! I wrote her an email and I am really excited to hear back from her. :) It’s going to be so fun when she comes to visit.

We had a baptism this week. His name is Yang Didi. He is 10 years old and is like an old man in a little body. He is like a Taiwanese Joseph Smith. His baptism went so smooth and he gave the most adorable little testimony. We are now teaching his mom and working on an eternal family. I’ll send pictures.

I love you guys so much and miss you all. Have a great week. Mom I can’t wait to talk to you on Mother’s Day. :)

Love, Sister Lee

Week 59 - Happy Easter!

Don't we look Pretty!!

Hi Everyone,

We got to watch conference this weekend. It was really great. We also planned an activity for the ward. We had a little lunch right in between the sessions on Sunday and it was a hit. We had 60 members, 9 investigators, 15 recent converts and 5 less actives come. We were thrilled. We defiantly know how to get our party on. J

For the last three days I have been in a three-some because a sisters old companion was training and so she came with us. It sounds fun, but I was so bummed because it was the last three days I had with Sis Hancock and it was different with Sis King. It ended up being ok, but it was just a weird end to a move call.

I am already a little home sick. Being with Sis Hancock was like being on vacation. It was really good though. We worked hard…I needed a little break after being with my other companion. Once I’m with my new companion I will be all focused again. (Its not like I am unfocused? But anyway, I only have three move calls left, and then I am home.

Thanks for the AWESOME package I loved it! All week I hid Easter Eggs around the house, and my companion had fun finding them. :)

P.S. Sister Hancock has all the pictures we took with our Easter Baskets. Bummer! I will have her send you some.

I love you all tons! Happy Easter!

Sister Lee

Week 58 - Sumi

Week 54

My new companion...Sister Hancock

Well I have like point 2 seconds left, but let me tell you about my fun crazy good week.

My area is tiny. I have seen all of it. I can ride from one side to the other in about 25 min. Sis Hancock was really good at letting me get used to this place. She introduced me to just about everyone. I am still getting the hang of things but I feel included and starting to sorta get where everyone is at, and who they are. The hardest part of adjusting was meeting and seeing other Americans in the international branch. I did not like them white people. It was kinda cool because it reminded me of when I was little and living in Japan.

We live in the same building as the Zone Leaders and so when we need to give stuff to each other we send it through the elevator. Its really funny. Can you imagine someone needing to use the elevator and seeing a couple of pictures of Jesus in the middle? It’s like someone appirated right out of there.

The Office couples kids were in town this week, and so we got to meet them. It was fun talking with them. We bumped into them right at the end of the night, and so their two boys (grown men) rode our bikes home and we talked with the girls. It was really great.

It was Sis Hancock’s 7th anniversary on Wednesday and we hit every single one of our goals by 5 pm. We had an hour to chill before the Elders Baptism that night and so we cut fruit for the after party. We had 6 investigators and 1 recent convert in attendance. We were stoked we also sang the musical number and it was great.

Church starts at 2 and goes till 6. It’s dark when we go home. Almost every night this week we have stayed up late talking or doing fun stuff like painting nails and laughing really hard about ridiculous moments that happened during the day. We worked really hard and got tons of stuff done.

I really like it here. I will have better stories for you next week.

I love you all!

Love Sis Lee

Week 53 - Move Calls!

My new area is awesome!

My new companion is Sister Hancock. She is the Sister that I went on sister exchanges with last move call. I AM SO LUCKY. I think that President knew that I was having a hard time and so he blessed me with the coolest companion ever. She is incredible and totally down to earth. She is 25, spunky, really pretty and was a cooperate accountant in her previous life. The middle of my mission was the hard part and the next 6 months are going to fly by and be the best ever.

So let me tell you about my area. I moved to Beiqu. You can drive the whole thing in 25 min. It is kinda like a little fish bowl. It is in the heart of Taichung. TONS of people everywhere all ready to get baptized and hear the good news of the gospel. They have FANTASTIC shopping and lots of fun places to go and eat. Umm what else? Oh I live in the same building as the office couple 5^th floor, and the zone leaders 7th floor. The assistants and President and Sister Bishop, the office elders and the zone leaders are all in my zone. Fun huh! We see people all the stinken time!!! It’s great. It’s like a constant party. I am loving life. My favorite Taiwanese companion has served here before and so she gave me a couple people to go take care of. Fun huh. She is great. We are also doing some huge genealogy project for Taiwan. We get to Skype and use Photoshop and do other cool stuff with Taipei. I will tell you more about it next week. I will also send a cute picture of my companion. :)

Umm the last week in Tanzi was really cool. I got to say goodbye to a lot of people and a lot of members took us out to eat. They were sad to see me leave, and I was feeling really loved on Sunday when everyone was showering me with gifts and kisses and hugs. I also feel like a can leave that area in the hands of Sister Miller. Mom I remember when I first got there and there was like NOTHING? Now its something, and I am grateful that I could see and help it grow.

Hmm what else can I tell you? I think that is about it for right now. I am happier than I have been in a long time and am really excited for this fresh new start.

I love you all and I hope you have a great week. :)

Love Sis Lee.

Week 52 - I love You!

Hi everyone,

This week was fun. We covered both areas, and we were super busy. We got to meet the Fengyuan members, recent converts and investigators. They are all really great. We actually got to meet with a referral that we sent the Fengyuan sisters. ha Her name is Chen Mei Hong. She is an older lady who works a lot and is super peppy. She ran out of gas on the way to her meeting with us. Luckily she was just up the street so we went and saved her. We walked her scooter to the church and waited with her until her friend came and gave her some more. ha It was funny. Anyways, after she added more gas we walked into the building and had a great lesson with her. We showed her around the church and the spirit was great. After our mini tour we sat down and taught her a simple lesson about the power of prayer. We invited her to keep meeting with us and she agreed that she would meet with us until she understood our message enough to be baptized. It was really great. We are meeting with her again next week. I am really excited to keep teaching her. She went out of that lesson a different person. It’s amazing what the influence of the spirit can do.

On Saturday we had a hike with the ward and it was so beautiful!! We had a couple of less actives and recent converts come and it was a blast. President let us leave early, and we woke up at 5 am to start hiking by 7. My camera broke and so I wasn’t able to take any pictures. :( I’m still trying to get that figured out. But anyways we talked about the Brother of Jared and how God answered his prayers. At the beginning of the hike we all took a rock, and by the end of the hike we traded it for a beautiful stone. It was really fun. Something I never will forget.

Today we went to Taichung for a Zone Activity. It was really really good to see everyone. The Elders in my Zone are really great, and a couple of them are my good friends. We stopped by the mission office and President was there. He pulled me and my companion into his office separately to tell us the same thing that I am leaving, that she is staying and that Fengyuan will be white-washed. Crazy huh...

I sure love you guys. I know that this gospel is true. It’s changed my life, and my mission has helped me so much more appreciative of the blessings of the atonement. Be a good neighbor. Be a good friend. Share your testimony. People need what we have, and the Lord wants us to share it.

I love you all so much. Thanks for all your love and prayers!!

Love Sis Lee