Some Questions for the Week:
* How much of the people's Chinese do you now understand? How much of
Lui JM's Chinese are you understanding now?
I
understand a lot of Chinese.... they just have to be a bit patient if they want
me to answer. Haha! People say that my Chinese has improved a lot though.
* Do you teach the lessons as you plan them or do you teach by the spirit?
Do you have a specific lesson prepared but change it due to the
spirit?
We
plan lessons, but of course they are pretty open. We just plan a subject,
a scripture and an invitation. The rest is done by the spirit. But
if we need to change a subject, we do. Most of our lessons change...
haha! Okay, not most, but a lot.
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Greetings from the
land of thousand year old eggs, dong gua cha, and two people to a wheel chair!
How is every one doing???? Guess what! I am on my 3rd move call! Crazy!!!
I have been here for about 3 months! And I have been a missionary for
about 5 months!!!! Crazy!!!! Time moves so fast! I always say that, but
this week seems to have flown by sooo quickly! We have been super busy!
So first things
first.... actually... it's not a first thing.... but it is a very, very big
important thing! MOVE CALLS!!!! So, I am still in Ping Dong, but my
trainer, Liu JM is currently on a train headed to TAIZHONG! So far
away! She is also going to be a sister training leader there. Haha!
She is going to be so busy! And it’s her last move call. In 6 weeks, she'll
be heading home! I learned so much from her and I am grateful for the
chance to serve with her. If I were to list a few things that I have
learned from her I would say that she taught me to always go the extra mile,
always love everyone, always be organized and ready to go, always have patience
and always laugh. She is such a great example to me and will surly make
an awesome Sister Training Leader!
And so, now you are
probably asking: So, who's your new companion? Well, right now, I don't
know! Haha! Well, I know her name. My new companion will be Sister
Shultz... I probably spelled that wrong... She's most likely American.... since
Schultz isn't a very Taiwanese name.... And I know that this will be her
6th move call, and her second area, and her second time being a Senior
companion. Other missionaries who know her say that she's awesome, and I'm
sure she is. Hopefully we'll see some miracles together, and that we'll
both be able to learn a ton from our experiences together!
And now you're
wondering, what am I doing in an internet cafe without a companion, since my
old companion is on a train, and my new companion hasn't arrived yet.... Well,
thank goodness for members! I'm here with a very awesome member named Hu
JM. She has so kindly volunteered to accompany me today as I go about on
my missionary P-day business. But today has been crazy... And I'll have
to ride in a lot of taxis... which isn't cheap, and isn't refundable by the Mission
Home.... But what can you do? Luggage doesn't fit well on bikes.....
Especially when there is a lot of it.... Haha! Anyways, my new companion
won't get here till about 2, so I have to figure out what I want to do till
then.... Yup.... Probably go to Jia Le Fu (Carrefour) and hang out with Hu JM.
:) P-days are awesome! But today is so crazy!
Anyways... Also
another fun thing that happened this week was our English Class Halloween
Party! It was so fun! We set up a "Haunted House", did bobbing
for apples, ate doughnuts off of strings, had a face painting booth, and had
lots and lots of candy. We actually had a lot of people show up, and it
led to us "adding" several people, which means setting up times to
meet with them and share the gospel. Yay!!! We really need to have
new investigators... we need to find people who are willing to come unto Christ
and be baptized!!! Haha! :D Anyways, the activity was very very
fun. Though, it took a lot of time for us missionaries and some members
to set up.... like all day long.... But it was soooo worth it!
So, a not so fun
thing this week.... I learned that the park is not a very good place to teach a
lesson. We planned a lesson with Amber, our American Investigator, who
ended up changing the location to the park, since her one year old son really
wanted to go. Anyways, after teaching a very spiritual lesson about the
Gospel of Christ (Faith, Repentance, Baptism, The Holy Ghost, and Enduring to
the End), I realized that my legs were completely covered in mosquito bites....
like probably 100 bites.... like.... not fun!!! Liu JM also had quite a
few, but mosquitoes like me more apparently..... I don't like them very
much at all.... So lessoned learned. Don't have lessons in a
park....
A better and more
spiritual lesson was taught on Sunday. Elder and Sister Davis, a senior
missionary couple who is serving here in Taiwan as Family History Consultants,
came and spoke during sacrament meeting. They spoke about conversion, and
how it wasn't a one-time process. We need to be converted on a daily
basis. This is why scripture study, praying and going to church are so
important! They add fuel to our spirit tanks. Haha! If we forget to keep
adding fuel, one day, we'll run out... and then what? We forget our
relationship with our Heavenly Father. We lose our faith... And we stray
from the light of the gospel. To be baptized isn't enough to make you be
converted for life. You have to keep working to remain converted.
That's what some people don't realize. They are baptized, then the stop
progressing. They think that baptism is the end.... but it's not! It's
the beginning! So keep studying the scriptures, pray always, and go to
church every week. In doing so, if you are sincere, you will never lose
your conversion. Come unto Christ!
Anyways, I know this
email is a bit short, but I want to see if I can add some pictures... also, I
still need to write some other people... like my mission president....
LOVE YOU ALL!!! Do
something good this week! Serve your neighbors! Smile! Be happy!
Love,
Sister Nicholle Peng
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