Well
folks, it's the start of a new movecall. I can only say that 3 more times after
this :/ Heavenly Father has been too good to me this last week. The first few
days Sister Burrows and I spent in the hospital, preparing and then getting her
surgery and then recovery. Everything went well! Sister Burrows is safe and
sound and in the arms of a new companion, Sister McKay in Beitun. I am now
companions with the wonderful Sister Ah Quin, who is the world's greatest
companion. She's hawaiian, one of the first 19 year olds here, funny, patient,
kind, hard working, loving, diligent... basically everything a companion could
want. We have seen so many miracles just in the last few days being together.
Here are some of them!
Chen
JM is one of our more recent converts, and we've been working on
developing her individual testimony of the Book of Mormon. Sister Ah Quin was
planning for her that day and felt that we should try a little activity. We
started off talking about why we like reading the Book of Mormon and followed
up on how reading has been going lately. Then we talked about how the Book of
Mormon answers ALL questions, no matter where we read, so we put it to the
test. We each wrote down a question we had, and then knelt and prayed together for
Heavenly Father to help us receive revelation. Afterwards, we opened up the
scriptures and Chen JM opened up to Alma 7 on her own and said we should read
there. We read it together, and then took 5 minutes to write down thoughts,
revelation, answers etc that we felt. After a few minutes, we all finished and
then shared how it went. She was so amazed that she got an answer and was
smiling from ear to ear. She thought it was so cool that God gives us
revelation willingly, we just need the faith to ask. She was excited to
continue reading the Book of Mormon daily and continue to receive revelation!
It also strengthened my own testimony that God really does hear and answer our
prayers and that the Book of Mormon is true.
One
night we were heading home and felt like we were going to meet one more person
who was prepared to hear the gospel. We were only about 3 minutes from our home
so we decided to go a longer way and down a super busy road with more people.
We turn down that road and for the first time ever, not a single person was on
the road, no cars, no scooters, no one haha! We started to laugh but still felt
like we would meet one more person. We were 1 light away from our house when it
turned red. I looked at my companion and said half-joking, "oh no you just
wait, she'll walk over to us in like 5 seconds" She turns to me and says
"5.....4......3....." and then kept laughing, THEN a girl walks out
of the seven and starts coming towards us. We say hello to her and, lo and
behold she is the one! We talked to her for about 20 minutes and are excited to
meet with her again. God is a God of miracles, who can deny it?
I
met Huang JM yesterday at church. It was her first time and she walked in,
speaking only Taiyu (Taiwanese language) I tried to spit out my broken taiyu,
and got my point across that she was welcome and could sit down. Afterwards,
she talked to us for a little bit about why she wants learn more about Christ.
She doesn't feel anything with her religion currently and wants to feel like
someone cares and loves her. She felt so special at church and wants to pray to
find out whether Heavenly Father exists or not. The difficult thing is that her
husband really objects, so she said she couldn't give us her number in case he
answers. We gave her ours, and hoped for the best as we said good-byes after
church. This morning, she called us!!! She had time so we met right then. We
were able to share with her more and give her a Book of Mormon. One of my
favorite things about beign a missionary is being able to literally see the
transition from someone who feels lonely and unloved, to someone who can start
to feel that they have worth. They are a child of God. They have hope. The more
they let the gospel influence their lives, the bigger the transformation we get
to witness. Makes me so happy
My companion really is so wonderful. She is full of faith and ready to work hard for the Lord. We know Heavenly Father has great plans for this area that we intend on carrying out! The picture is of us at a hot pot with another one of our ward members, Chen JM. I'm so glad we were able to skype!!! I loved seeing and hearing from you guys. I will take more pictures this next week and send them soon :) Send me pictures of the new baby! I love you all dearly!!!
Sister Smart
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