Nov. 15, 2015
It was a really long week. Something about being in a new area with a new companion just makes the week go by sooo slow and it just wears me out! But we saw lots of miracles this week!
Monday, after PDay, we got invited to go to the 金華街 Jin hua jie chapel and do a part of a special YSA temple tour. We got to stand in front of a picture of the Christus and bear testimony of Jesus Christ. The YSA would come down the staircase in front of us with blind folds on. When they got down we started singing, "I stand all amazed", then when we were done they took their blindfolds off and we just told about our testimonies of Christ. There were about 5-6 groups we got to do that with. It was such a cool experience and I'm grateful that I get to bear testimony of and represent my Savior everyday! :)
On Tuesday before lunch we went knocking for a little bit. Knocking in Taipei isn't really knocking though. You go up to an apartment door and there's a box with a bunch of doorbells on it. So depending on the apartment you could have access to like 18 households just standing in one place. Pretty crazy. So after you ring the doorbell you wait for them to either talk to you through the speaker box, or they unlock the door for you and you walk all the way up the stairs to their house door. Anyways. We're ringing this apartment building and we get to the last doorbell (of course) and we wait for like 10-15 seconds and we look at each other and Sister Bowman says, "繼續！" It's her favorite thing to say. It means continue. Just as we turned around we heard the 'click' of the big door unlocking. Someone let us up! We walked up to the 4th floor and met a cool girl and we got to have a lesson with her. She asked us to pray for her parents who just got diagnosed with cancer. She was really receptive to our message. Then we asked if we could come back next week and share more.. She said yes! It was only the second time my whole 8 months in Taiwan that I've actually taught a lesson and gotten a new investigator while ringing doorbells! Such a great miracle! You never know what plans the Lord has for His children!
On Saturday we got to go visit some members in a little town east of song shan. It's called Nan Gang. We got out there and Sister Bowman was like no wonder they took missionaries out of here last transfer, there's no one here! Then I was like OH MY GOSH! I WENT HOME! I WENT BACK TO 台東! There really weren't very many people there and the apartments were only like 5 stories, unlike in song shan! Plus one side of the city has these mountains/hill things that are so pretty! The air was so much cleaner! I loved it(: Sister Bowman thought I was crazy. I want to live there. Close to the city, but it's not the city! haha!
That's pretty much it for this week! 3 of our investigators were in China or Hong Kong for work, so we had lots more time to go finding! I am so worn out! But it was a truly miraculous week and I'm learning so so much! Change is so hard. But it's good for me.
This week I've been reading 2 pages of Preach my Gospel everyday. I want to finish it by the end of my mission. I read a really great quote from President Lorenzo Snow. It says, “There is no mortal man that is so much interested in the success of an elder when he is preaching the gospel as the Lord that sent him to preach to the people who are the Lord’s children.”
I know He didn't send me here to fail. He is always watching over His servants and all of His children. Sometimes missionary work is hard and you feel alone or like what you're doing isn't worth the stress or the pain, but when you know whose errand you're really on, it helps a lot. :)
That's why “How firm a foundation" verse 3 is my favorite verse out of any hymn. He is with us!
加油！
-Sister Oviatt
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