Hello Mom! Hello
Regan! Hello World! I would love to start this email by a shout out to MOM AND
REGAN! CONGRATULATIONS!!!! I am sooo happy you guys got married! And I'm glad
to hear everything went smoothly. It sounds like it was a blast!
May you have many days of happiness and sunshine! :D (Though, hopefully
not Taiwan sunshine, because then you guys would be roasted....)
Well, one more week
down.... and a lot more weeks of summer left to go.
And with summer comes
the yearly rainy season. I don't like rain, and yet it rained pretty much
every day this week. In fact, it's raining right now.... inside the
internet cafe.... yup.... soo soo wet! Everyone knows how much I looove
the rain here... yup.... still a work in progress... I've been feeling a little
bit rainy in mood, and a little drowned.... This week I had to have my bike
tires changed twice because my front wheel got flat... and with the rain... no
one wants to talk to us here... well... except for a kind soul that we met on
the road here. :)
As to
investigators.... we still have none... and we are still spending our days
finding... We did get into three houses this week while tracting.
Two of them were on Monday, and the other yesterday. One on Monday
was a nice family who also invited us back. But the second time they said
that they just wanted to be friendly to the "wai guo ren"/foreigners,
and they really didn't care about Christ since they are Dao Jiao. After
we went to their house, the next house over a lady let us in, but she wasn't
really interested in learning more because she was Buddhist. Then
yesterday, we were let into a house by a cute couple. The wife only
speaks Taiwanese, but she was insistent that we understood her, and the husband
kept having to translate. Well, apparently the Elders had knocked on her
door three days earlier and gave her the same flier. We taught them to
pray, and they were so very nice. But they say they can't travel that far
to go to church (we were about an hour away from the chapel).
We've been having a
lot of nicer contacts with people, or people willing to set up. Though...
most of our appointments have fallen through (probably due to the rain.... Not
fun....) We've been trying to figure out why we aren't having success
yet.... but we keep striving to work hard and keep moving forward.
We've also been
working on our relations with the ward and helping them do missionary work.
That's been a bit frustrating as well, since most of our ward have been
saying they are too busy to meet with us... But in the meetings we've
had, it's been a spiritual experience. We've been sharing with them Elder
Nielson's talk from the Oct 2013 Conference.
It gives three invites on how we as members can help hasten the Lord's
Work. I invite all of you to do them as well, since they are all pretty
easy but have a lot of blessings!
Okay... what else...
Oh! I went on Companion Exchanges and learned a ton. We also didn't have
water in our apartment... so Sister Worthington and I went to my apartment so
we could take a shower. We found some really cool LA's though. I
love helping LA's return. :D And Sister Worthington is great! Oh!
Also, when I was with her, we ate Stinky Tofu for dinner. I like stinky
tofu. :D
Well, we are only
allowed to email one hour this week, since we are going to the temple on
Wednesday and today doesn't count as a p-day. So, I've got to go. I
hope you are all doing well. Congratulations again to Mom and Regan! I'm
so excited to have a big family! Haha! :D
Love you all!
Sister Peng
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