Last p-day was pretty basic, buying groceries, chilling out at home, the
usual. But we had a really cool miracle. As we were out buying our
groceries, we ran into one of our members who invited us to go celebrate
Mother's Day with them that night (she left for China on Tuesday and
gets back later in the month, about 2-3 weeks). The funny thing is
Sunday night, my companion was asking if we could go visit them since
mom's the only member of their family that's truly active. However, dad
doesn't seem to really enjoy us going to visit regularly so I said
probably not possible. Heavenly Father works in mysterious ways. It was
really cool and we had a blast. Also really cool fact, their daughter is
somewhere between Sister Singh and I in age and is now preparing to go
on a mission! We just have to help her become fully active again! Below
is the Lin family, who we went to visit.
Tuesday we spent most of the day finding outside of district meeting.
Sadly without much success but that's part of the long, hard part in the
subject heading. That night we also visited an LA that is currently
coming back into activity. It's been really cool to watch him change. He
really is completely different from the guy I met a few months ago when
I first came to BaDe and first met him. I love the miracles of
returning LAs :) Below- our last district meeting!!! My district is so
awesome!
Wednesday is the other part of the long hard week and is also where
me being a not-so-intelligent human being comes into play. We went to
YingGe and all of us missionaries were doing service for some other of
our LAs that are coming back into activity. They're in the process of
moving so we went to clean their old house a little more, I'm not
completely sure what they're planning on doing with it though. Sadly,
just after we got to YingGe we went to buy something at a FamilyMart for
my companion since we were early, on the way back to the house, I
stepped off the sidewalk and rolled my ankle. Second time in my life
I've managed to sprain my ankle by stepping off a sidewalk! Fun right? I
don't even know how I do these things... Luckily it's doing a lot
better. Sadly, it caused a lot of pain the rest of the day and
especially the hour long bike ride back to BaDe . It also hasn't been
much fun to ride to YingGe on it every day since but it is getting
better, slowly but surely :)
Thursday we were supposed to go visit an LA family. Sadly, they
ended up cancelling on us so we were once again contacting most of the
day (in YingGe this time) we met a really nice family that met elders
about 2 years ago and they were really nice. Sadly, they're not
interested in the church but you should've seen all the art in their
house! It was so beautiful! And the parents were really sweet! Their son
was awkward but I've decided that's just a fact of life :P
Friday was a busy day full of appointments for the first time all
week. We ran to YingGe to visit with a girl we met the week before.
She's super awesome. Sadly, she's already going to the Jehovah's Witness
church. Also, she's still willing to meet with us but has to wait until
her tests are over to keep meeting with us, which will be the week
before I come home... :( Oh well, life happens eh?
Right after, we visited another LA in YingGe that's super awesome.
Sadly, as the typical Taiwanese she's super busy with work and has to
work on Sundays so has no chance to come to church but I feel like she
still has a really strong testimony. I think there's also a
deeper-rooted problem but we were unable to find it that day... Maybe
next time ba.
That night we visited with our LA/RC and my companion had a fit at
the amount of cockroaches in their house. Yea, their house isn't very
clean and it's really cheap. It's sad to see the conditions some people
live in here.
Afterwards we visited a couple of our investigators and all 3 of
those lessons went really well. It as fun and gave me a chance to see a
different side to both our RC and our investigators.
Saturday
we went back to YingGe to visit another LA who doesn't have a very good
family situation. Sadly, she talks a lot and doesn't give us much of a
chance to share. Also, she has the gospel but is unwilling to use it.
It's really sad and a really sad situation to see. She called crying
last night because of her family and talked my ear off for 40 minutes
but seemed a little better and more willing to change by the end so I'm
hoping a miracle will happen there.
Last night we did an awesome Book of Mormon activity with our ward
and used some of the principles we've been taught recently. This is
something my companion and I came up with but she put pretty much all
the effort into. We did a "trailer" which is just a bunch of different
scenes of what goes on in the Book of Mormon, trying to peak people's
interests. Then we read 1 Nephi 1 with them. Sadly, not a lot of members
came but those that did absolutely loved it. We also got the full
support of our MM Leader, which is a miracle since he seems a little
sexist. We plan on doing it once a month all through summer and by the
end of August, if people follow the schedule we gave them they'll have
read the Book of Mormon from cover-to-cover. I'm excited to see how it
all turns out!
So yea, that's more or less my week. Sorry, this is a novel and a
more boring method as usual. Another sad part of the week is that I've
managed to get sick again, I blame it on all the rain lately. So yea,
it's a work in progress. Hopefully when I come home I wont get sick this
easily anymore, I miss the good old days of getting sick 1 week a
year... haha.
Hope this e-mail finds you all well. Love and miss you! Until next week, jiayou!
Sister Thomsen
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