MEG'S BIRTHDAY IS SOON!

Hey, a note from Meg's mom--Meg's birthday is coming up.  February 17 she will be 20 years old!  My baby....  anyway, she would really love, I am sure,  to have a few birthday wishes sent her way.  If you want to mail a letter to her, you should do that this week as it takes a good two weeks to get to her.  You need an international stamp to do that--Not sure how much they are-- I will put her address below.  If you would just like to write her an e-mail, her e-mail address is megan.smedley@myldsmail.net.

Thanks.  I know it would be a huge lift for her to hear from you!
Shelley
Meg's address:

Sister Megan Smedley
Taiwan Taipei Mission
4Fl, #24, Lane 183 Jin-hua St
Taipei, TAIWAN  ROC

You can also write her at www.dearelder.com  Taiwan Taipei Mission   Thanks:)

FIRST BAPTISM!!!

Well what a week it has been! :) So last week on Friday we have a zone training by President and Sister Day, the assistants to the president, and the temple sisters. It was so good! We got our area split. So we are in PINGZHEN and the elders are in Yangmei Xinnu. So this means we have to have peikes because now we are teaching men as well. YIKES. It is pretty strange. But I feel bad because they elders had to give all of their investigators to us. We only had a couple people for them. So now we have ALOT of work to do! It will be very exciting! 

 BAPTISM DAY(: My companion was sick. YIKES. Throwing up and tearing her throat so then throwing and coughing up blood. YIKES. So then we called sister Day  She said she needed to stay home and rest. My companion was like, here's the deal. We have a baptism today. So then sister day said, "Well I think going to that baptism will help you feel better so you better go to that(:" Hahaha Then she said they would still try to come! Then a half hour before the baptism she called us. She said they were stuck in pretty heavy traffic and didn't know if they would be able to make it.   we started the baptism and ten minutes into it, guess who showed up??? PRESIDENT AND SISTER DAY! YAY!!! We were really excited to see them. They are seriously the greatest. I love them a lot!(:

 

So the baptism. Jocelyn is amazing.  I have never been so happy as watching her in the font, just praying they will get it right the first time, and just watching her be baptized. After the second time they got it right and when she came up out of the water my companion and I were just so happy. We couldn't contain it. We ran to her, went into the bathroom and gave her the biggest hug! It was beautiful. Then when she bore her testimony at the end, she said that people ask her, why do you want to be baptized? She told us how it's because she wants to change and she knows this is the way to do it. She was just so happy and it was cool.  She is amazing!

 

So this week starts guonian! Tomorrow is guonian eve(: So that is like the most important day of guonian. So for thursday friday saturday sunday monday and tuesday, our ward has scheduled out all of our lunches and dinners! So guonian everything shuts down. So they are feeding us for ever meal except breakfast! YAY! It will be insane. I heard you just eat soooooo much! So here's hoping I don't gain five hundred pounds in five days. Uh'oh. We will be eating a lot. 

Always. I am so grateful for this gospel. I am grateful for the savior. Who allows us to come to him with our mistakes and weaknesses and even though he sometimes won't resolve it right away, he will help us have strength to overcome them. In a world that is becoming more and more evil, don't forget that means there is also more good! The church is building and building it's kingdom. Don't forget how precious this gospel is(: Help out the missionaries in your ward! They would love it!(: I love you all!

 

Love, Sister Megan Smedley (Mai jiemei(:)