Second week in Songshan!

Nov. 22, 2015

This week went by much faster than last week! Even though this week we didn't do as much. One of our investigators had to drop us because her grandma and grandpa are SUPER opposed to her getting baptized. She was supposed to have her interview yesterday. And all the rest of our investigators are in China for business because we serve in the richest part of Taiwan. One of our investigators is the Oracle Asia area VP. Everyone is sooo sooo busy. So finding everyday it is! It's hard. It's real missionary work. It just wears you out in every way. But at the end of the day when you know you've done your best, it feels great. :)

Exciting news is that tomorrow one of the new apostles, Elder Stevenson, is coming to visit our mission. His son in Taizhong is finishing his mission today so he decided to come visit our mission, too! :) So cool! I'm in a mission choir that gets to sing for him tomorrow, too! The whole mission will be there, so that's exciting, too! I'll get to see all my friends that got sent out to the East Coast that I haven't seen in a long time.

This week when we were out finding we saw the cutest little ama! (pronounced "ahmah"=taiwanese for grandma) She told us she was 85 and where all 4 of her kids went to college. They all went to really good schools in America and her english was really good!... for an 85 year old(: Her favorite thing to say was, "This is my english composition booK. and that is s9 piano." She said it over and over again. SO CUTE! Then we asked if we could sing a hymn for her so then she started singing happy birthday in english! It was so great. We sang "Dearest children God is near you". It was really cool to sing of those truths to this sweet old lady in the middle of Asia. :) 

You gotta find the little things sometimes. Like eating Pizza Hut Hawaiian cheese stuffed crust pizza for lunch one day. Getting a soft chocolate chip cookie from Subway in the middle of finding. Telling someone you're from Texas and they ask if you're a cowboy. It's the little things that keep you going. :)

Find them.

-Annie