So, this is kind of a long post, but so much information of her first few days in Taiwan--will try to shorten things up a bit in the future--
So first for mom's questions about Taiwan.
How was my journey?? It was a loooong flight. haha So long. But I had a miracle with that which I actually wrote in the letter home to mom and dad. So you will get that soon I think... But yes. Very long. But president day and sister day and the office elders were anxiously waiting for us! We had no trouble finding them. They are so awesome!!!! I love them sooooo much. So we slept at the temple headquarters for our first two days in Taiwan. So just in bunks right across from the bu (mission home). My first impressions of Taiwan: There are so many different smells that are so weird. I am still trying to get used to it. And it wasn't anything I thought it would be like. But we were in the big city. But each day I am here I grow to love it more and more and more. but it is so pretty here. Everything is so green. What surprised me is how on the outside everything looks so old and run down but then on the inside it looks so nice! So it is just definitely a culture shock! haha but like I said I am just growing to love it. The food is weird though. hopefully I can get used to it soon(:
My trainer is sister briggs. She is really great. She is from Nevada and only has three transfers left. She is really great though and I really love her! So we OPENED A NEW AREA. Yeah. Terrifying! We are in Zhongli 2 area. So when we got here we had one investigator. That's it. And she is an eternal investigator. So we have a lot of work to do to get investigators! It's hard because neither of us know the area or anyone here so we are sort of just starting from scratch. We went to church yesterday though, we just have one ward. And I looooooove my ward. The people in my ward were so nice and so welcoming. I feel bad because Idon't understand anything they say so I just nod and smile. They all like to practice their english on me though(: haha But they are great. The bishop invited me and my compaion to bear our testimonies in church. It was pretty much the most terrifying thing ever. Yep. Most definitely. But our cute little investigator that comes to church every week but won't get baptized told me I did so good and there was only one word I said that she didn't understand! It was super encouraging. I was really excited.
We had a super cool miracle yesterday. So our goal is to get one new investigator every day. So after church and dinner we went to this park that is in our area. We were talking to a lot of people and trying to get someone to listen. People weren't really interested though. So we went somewhere else away from the park to find someone. But we weren't having any luck. So we went back to the park we were at before. We had about ten minutes until we had to leave to be home by 9:00. So we said a prayer and just asked that we would be led to someone who needed to hear our message. So then we went down this little walkway and there was nothing. So then we went down another little one and there was this girl there that we had seen earlier but she was exercising and had her earphones in so we didn't bother her. But as soon as she saw us she took her earphones out and so we started to talk to her. We asked her if she had a religion and she told us she didn't. So then we asked her if she believed in God. She said she did! So we started to talk to her about prayer and the importance of it. And we asked if she could pray with us. So I said a prayer and then we asked her if she would say a prayer and she did! She said she felt good and we asked if we could meet with her again and she said we could! So we are this saturday night meeting with her. I am so excited! It was such a huge miracle. I was praying so hard that we would be able to meet our goal yesterday and find and investigator. It was such a blessing and miracle. God's hand was definitely guiding us to find her. It was really cool. So I am loving my area and the people. The people here are so amazing!! I love them so much. It's amazing being a missionary here.
Also, the rain. It's a real thing. Hahaha if any of you had doubts. It rains so much here! Today is the first day it hasn't rained. They had a typhoon a couple weeks ago so it has just been raining like crazy! But yeah today there was actual sunshine. I couldn't believe it! I woke up to blue skies. Also I will have to send you a picture of our bed sometime. We don'thave beds. We have little mat things and sleep on the floor in our front room. It rocks... Haha my back is loving it. But it's fun! We should be getting beds sometime I think! I love you all so much. Thanks for your emails and love and everything. You have no idea how much it means to me! God is working miracles!(:
Love sister Smedley(:
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