Okay so weirdest thing... I am writing from Fengyuan, up north by Taizhong. I don't have much time to email :/ but I'll quickly tell you whats up. So I was with Xiao and Wang JM in Sanmin until this morning. Last Wednesday I got a call from President Bishop saying that he needed a favor. I was like, sure, whats up? and he said all nonchelantly, well you're moving to Fengyuan on Monday and are going to train Sister Naivasha Burrows.... Several days later and actually here with Sister Burrows and I still don't really believe it. While training Sister Wang it was really relaxed because she knew chinese and Sister Xiao was still there. Now its just me and Sister Burrows from Alpine Utah. The trainer she has had for the last 3 weeks went home, so here I am! It'll be really fun relying on the Lord the next few months :) Sister Burrows seems so awesome. She is a rugby player, 2 brothers, cool hair, and way chill. She hardly knows the area because she just got here, but we're going to figure it all out together!!! I would be lying if I said I weren't a little nervous, but I know everything is going to be great. My life has had its ups and downs, and the Lord has never left me. He certainly won't leave me now! It'll be funny having an american. I keep trying to speak english and its coming out all weird... Oh well. It will come.
Last week was wonderful! Monday night we went to visit Huang baba and his wife. (Wife is a member who wants her husband to join the church) He really loves Taiyu songs, so we labored feverishly to learn a song and we sang it for him that night. Ridiculously hard language (wayyy harder than chinese) but so worth it because he was SO HAPPY! He was willing to pray with us again! I'm sad I can't see them anymore, but I know that Xiao JM will keep visiting them. Tuesday we had sister exchanges! Sister Tung from Pingdong came up and I took her around Sanmin. We started out visiting our friend Zhang JM,a sweet woman who hasn't been to church in a while. Tung JM was able to share her own conversion story and about her family, which really touched Zhang JM's heart. The spirit was really strong and I hope she will come back to church soon! We then went to lunch at Liu family's house. It was her husbands birthday and she wanted us to come and celebrate with them. Funny story about that night... We went out to eat with Yu Jie, a girl who hasn't been to church in almost 9 years. She doesn't want to come to church, but she reluctantly said she'd come to eat with us. To make a long story short, she locked her keys in her motorcycle seat and has no spare. We tried and tried to get them out, they would lift up the seat as far as it would go and I stuck my hand in to try and feel around for it. She gave up after a while and so we just went to eat.While eating, she talked about why she thinks prayer is worthless. AHHH so sad. BUT, Heavenly Father has a nice little sense of humor, and when I said the prayer, I asked that we would be able to get the keys out. Lo and behold, I stick my hand in there and pull out those keys right away! I had tried and tried earlier to get it, and couldn't find them because they were stuck under the helmet. She laughed and said she might be willing to try out prayer again. My arm is covered in bruises from it, but its worth it haha. Wednesday I got the news that I was moving, so we started visiting everyone! I really love Sanmin and got close to everyone there. I spent the next 4 days with all those wonderful people. I will miss them terribly, but this work is not in vain. I'll see them again someday.
I'm so sorry this is so random and quick!!! I promise I'll write more next week. Here's a picture of me and my companion. I LOVE YOU ALL AND I LOVE THIS WORK
Love, Sister Song
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