Wo de jiating! Zao'an!
I'm still in Taidong as is Sister Chao waiting to see some more awesome miracles this coming transfer. Maybe one of them will be a baptism. I'm hoping for Becky's to come since her date is the end of the month!
Our biggest miracle this week was the one new investigator we found. Monday night really was one of miracles. We got to where we were going to do English boarding and were going to park our bikes at the nearest 7 when one of our English students walks out of that very same 7. She wasn't really interested in meeting with us when she came to English class, said she was too busy. But as we talked to her on Monday, she told us we should go to this really good restaurant nearby so we suggested we go eat there together later in the week. Everyone has to eat, right? As the week unfolded, we found out that the restaurant she suggested is closed but she was willing to go to another restaurant to eat. Another miracle that's part of this was the same day we set to eat with her, we'd already set to have one of our Young Women go chuanjiao with us who's also in our English class and already knows her. Needless to say, dinner was awesome with these two incredible english students. Then, towards the end, An (our investigator) asked us a question about the Bible or something so we pulled out the Book of Mormon to answer her question. Her eyes lit up when we told her we wanted to give her a copy of the Book of Mormon. She was so excited, you would think she realized it was far more than a book that we were giving her. Sadly, she just really loves books but I think someday she will realize that when she received the Book of Mormon, there was far more that came with it, opportunities of eternity. I really think she has great potential and am excited to see what comes from it. Not too long after that, at the end of our English boarding time, we were walking back to our bikes when we were talking to 2 guys, 1 is from California, the other is from China. He kept asking us all sorts of good questions. Sadly, he left Tuesday so the only thing we could do to help him was give him a pamphlet and a copy of the Book of Mormon. The rest is up to him until China is open to missionary work. He was also really excited to get a copy of the Book of Mormon and made me so grateful I try to ensure I have at least 1 copy on me at all times. I just hope he reads it now and becomes someone's golden investigator someday :)
Another miracle, as we were sitting in church yesterday one of our members was late but she walks over to us and gives us this awesome referral of someone she had just met and invited to meet with us! Member missionaries really are incredible! She's already given us 2 other referrals, 1 is currently our investigator and the other didn't seem interested at first but seems like she may be interested now since she called yesterday and said she was coming to church. Sadly, the rain kept her away but we're not going to give up :)
I also loved our miracle in the rain on Thursday. We went to visit an LA we'd set up with and she'd forgotten so wasn't home even though we'd just set up with her. Well, we had a back-up plan that we'd take a card to an investigator that's been having a hard time lately and hasn't really been able to meet with us. We just parked our bikes and got out the stuff to write her a note when she walks out of her house with her two kids. She then invited us to come meet with her for a little bit even though she'd had other plans. It was such an incredible miracle. And she's been reading the Book of Mormon! She's already read to 1 Nephi 12 and she said she understands it! Now, we just need to get her husband to not fandui so much. That's been on of her biggest problems, her husband doesn't like her meeting with Christians, he's really against the church :( I hope we'll find a way to help her.
Another really cool miracle I loved this week is that one of our members who basically turned inactive at the beginning of last transfer has come back to full activity! He said it was because we kept calling him and just told him that we missed him. Now, he's been at every activity for the last 2 weeks. I'm so grateful that we were able to help him come back before he strayed too far off the path. Truly a blessing.
Last week we also went to see the beautiful SanXianTai with Hou Huizhang and our elders! It was marvelous. Sadly, it also means I have to buy a new camera today since I was taking pictures when Hou Huizhang asked why everyone was being so boring in the water and not splashing or anything so the elders started before I had a chance to put my camera away so the sea water killed it :( Luckily today is pretty chill so I'll have time to look at cameras today. We're actually spending the end of the afternoon baking cookies since we're teaching the young women how to make cookies at the end of the week and we want to see how our recipes turn out in Taiwan before we teach them to make them... So our elders get to be our guinea pigs and they are so excited, lol :D can always depend on them to eat, that's for sure!
Well, that's about all for this week. Hope all is well with you!
Wo ai nimen!
Sister Thomsen
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