TESTIMONY AND PICTURES!

I know this church is true, family. It is. Jesus Christ is our Savior. He loves us so much. I love him so much. One of the coolest things I think I have ever felt on my mission is being able to feel God's love at specific times for his children. It's a really cool feeling. Please serve this Christmas. Remember Christ and everything he has done for us. Don't leave him out. If you are going through a hard time, don't forget he has already done that for us. Let him help you please. My favorite scripture about Jesus is Alma 7:11-13. Especially verse 12 though when it talks about he knows how to succor his children in our afflictions. Please read it. I know it's true. I love you all so much. More than you will ever know and I can't wait to talk to you all next week!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

So do you remember when I very first got to this area and told you about Hong JM our eternal investigator and how she was our only investigator? So every time we visit her she just does not want to set a goal. So we gave her a break for a little. But me and Sister Bond met with her on Saturday night and we showed her one of the fireside videos (The Gospel of Jesus Christ) and when it was over she started crying. And was very emotional and she told us she has had a feeling lately that she needs to get baptized soon. We were so happy!!!!!  We asked her if she could be baptized on Christmas and she kind of does not like setting dates. But she said she would think about it (which was huge because every other time we try to set dates it was just a no, I will get baptized eventually). But she is scared of what will happen after she is baptized of what changes she will make in her life. She is so amazing. I have been praying so hard for her! She is so ready to be baptized. I know her family wants her to be baptized as well. Her husband and kids are members. I love her so much and there is no better christmas in my mind than to see her baptized! I am just worried that she will forget that feeling. Because satan loves to make us forget our promptings we have and I know he is working hard on our investigators.

 

But yeah this week was good! My companion was sick all week... Still is a little. So we had to go to the hospital on Saturday. (Hospitals you go to for big or small things, don't worry, it's just a cold).  But we have so much fun together. We just laugh. All the time. I am pretty sure I have laughed more in the past two weeks than in my life... She is pretty hilarious.

 

Don't forget what Christmas is really about. It is about the Savior and everything he has done for us. I know he is our savior and will comfort us when we need it and will help us in any situation. I know that he loves us so much. I also know, if you really open your eyes this christmas and look, God will show you so many miracles. So that is my yaoqing for you all! Look for a miracle everyday. I am going to start writing a miracle everyday in my journal (I did it when I first got here and kind of slacked off... ) But I know that when we look for them we can see soo many and then God will know we appreciate them. I love you alllllll so much!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Hello family! Well it has been another week. I really can't believe how fast weeks fly! But we are into december, can you believe that??? I hope all of your thanksgiving was good! We didn't have much of a thanksgiving here. We had a dinner appointment that night but they canceled on us, so we ate at seven eleven for lunch and dinner... Yeah! Haha But it's okay. I just want you to know I am grateful for all of you! I am so grateful for support of each of you. I am so grateful for the gospel and for Jesus Christ! I hope you all got to reflect on what you were grateful. But today me and my companion are going to celebrate Thanksgiving by going to an all you can eat Steak House (boss's steakhouse). We are pretttttty excited! Haha but yeah. Happy p-day! So this month we are really hoping for a lot of miracles. President Day has a goal to have a white christmas, so on Christmas he wants to try to have everyone have baptisms to give everyone (especially the savior) a white Christmas! Yay!

 We have two baptism dates for December and they are amazing. It is Meng JM and Zhang JM and they are so great! I really love them a lot and are praying really hard for them. Also I would love if you could pray for them too. Also we have a potential Chen Xi that could get baptized on that date we are meeting with tonight. And another potential Hong JM our eternal investigator we would love to see get baptized that night! But also last night we saw a cool miracle. So we were at Peng Jiating's house But li JM's husband is not baptized yet. But he goes to church every week and is really amazing. So the elders told Li JM that they were going to invite him to baptism on Sunday and she said, I don't think he's ready. I really don't think he is right now. So then we were there and we were teaching the plan of salvation. And it was a really good lesson and everyone was participating. And at the end of it, Li JM turned to her husband and said "Ni shenmeshihou hui jieshou xili?" (When will you be baptized) All of us missionaries are like, what in the world?? It was sooooo cool! So the elders explained that on the 25th we are having a big baptism day and it will be really special because it's on Christmas and invited him to be baptized on that day. And he said he would!!! He is so amazing. And then their cute little family were all sitting next to each other and I have never seen them look so happy. I just couldn't stop thinking how cool it is that they can have an eternal family and they are just an amazing family.

 

I love all of you a lot as well! I hope things are good!!!

TRANSFER WEEK!! SURPRISE!

Hello family, well this week was quite the surpise. Are you ready for it???? So last week during our studies sister briggs and I get a call from... President Day. Yeah that is a scary call to get. So she is talking to him and I have no idea what is going on or being said. And sister briggs gets off the phone and says.................... "You are staying in Pingzhen.." I was like WHAT???? So yeah I am still here in Pingzhen. I have lots of mixed emotions about it. Because I had already started packing and I had said all of the goodbyes and I was excited to get going, but then I wasn't and yeah. But here I am and I am so happy to be here. Yesterday at church we got the warmest welcome. Our ward was very surprised to see me there except the few that knew I would be there. But I just was so happy to be in my ward. I love this ward more than ever! I just have a yearning to help them as much as I can!

 

My new companion is Sister Bond and she is from Roy Utah. She is a biology major, more on the medical side of things. And she is really great. Very obedient. And yeah I think we will see a lot of miracles. She also went up to Utah State so that was cool too!