Week 63

She was an hour late for her baptism, but everyone waited for her. It was still a perfect night.

We had a the baptism scheduled for 7. Fruit was cut, cake was iced, and the primary was all there for the musical number. We had a little 8yr girl getting baptized at the same service and so when 7:20 came around and Sara still hadn't shown up we started with out her. The whole baptism went super smooth, and right as the bishopric member was saying his closing remarks Sara called. She asked what was wrong because she noticed we had called so many times. We just asked if she was coming to her baptism and she said that she was just around the corner.

She came in totally bummed, and as she started crying. She went to the bathroom to change and broke down. "This is the biggest night of my life, and I screwed it up. God is so sad that I messed up my baptism night." It was so cute, and sad to see her so sad for thinking she screwed everything up.

We told everyone that she was here, and they waited for her to get changed. The baptism went super smooth, and after she was baptized in her testimony she said that she totally forgot how sad she had just been. She bore her testimony that she was Gods daugther, and that she knew this church was true. She said that as she has been investigating the church she found her child within and that she knew that through the power of the atonement she was able to feel so happy again. It was a great night.

She was a self contact when I was serving with Sister Hancok. She dissapeard for about a month, but a couple weeks ago she came to church, and and been to church ever since for 5 weeks. She is so great. We are such good friends, and I feel so lucky to have seen her grow and change its so inspiring. :) She was originally supposed to get baptized in a couple weeks, but she was too busy and so she surprised us and asked us if she could get baptized this week.

It such an amazing experience beign a missionary. You learn and grow in such uncomfortable ways, but its all so worth it because you get to see miracles like Sara everyday.

I love you!

Love Sis Lee

Week 62

Yesterday my companion and I were walking around at the park. It was late, and it had just stopped raining. Not very many people were outside, and so we had decided to go back to the church. We noticed a girl opposite from us exercising and we said hello to her. She stopped. We started talking to her, and found out that she was a member but hadn’t gone to church in years. She didn’t have any friends at church anymore, and the missionaries that she was good friends with had gone home. I could tell that she was embarrassed to be talking to us and that she hadn’t been to church in a while. It was so good talking to her. We prayed with her and invited her to come to an activity with us next week. She agreed and she gave us her phone number. You never know what people are going through in their lives and what a simple act of reaching out can do. It was so cool that we were able to talk to her yesterday. I like being a missionary because of miracle moments like these. They happen everyday.

I love you guys. Have a great week. xo

Love Sis Lee

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