PICTURES!!! MORE ABOUT BEITOU! AND COMPANION

My companion is the cutest! Haha we get a long so well. We are ourselves and we are happy! She and I are pretty different I think but we just get a long really well. I love her! Beitou is beautiful. Remember when we went to new zealand and saw hot springs everywhere. And the smell? Yep. That's my life right now. Haha they are everywhere and it smells like them everywhere. But I love beitou! And there are hills everywhere. So much trees. So much green! It is beautiful! Our ward is good. The bishop I have heard doesn't like foreigners. So we are working on that.  We got a new MM leader though so IT is going great(:

PICTURES:  One of my companion and I at the temple. One of me, last week right before english class meeting, we were racing there, my tire completely blew. I heard a big bang and thought I was getting shot at. But thankfully it was my tire. So I had to find a place to buy a new one. Needless to say, I didn't make it to English class meeting:( Good thing one of the elders was willing to take over!

TRANSFER!! TO THE MOUNTAINS!

I moved to Beitou! It is the most beautiful place in the world my friends. Seriously I love it so much. I live on a mountain. The church is on another mountain. So hopefully I will be getting skinnier right? Haha My companion is Sister Lin another Taiwanese companion! YAY! I love her a lot.

Last week we were able to see Song Dixiong baptized! So that was really great. I live on a mountain. I know I already said that. But seriously I think we counted five or six mountains we went up last saturday to different places. But at the end, I couldn't do it anymore! Haha it was pretty crazy. But I know that everyone has mountains to climb. Whether real life mountains on a bike, or whether it is our own trials and challenges. God will help is climb them, and when we get to the top we can look back, getting to see everything we accomplished. So I think that is a really special experience. I love you all so much. 

Lesson learned:   I realized that before my mission if all of that happened in one week, that would be really hard. And I wouldn't know how to handle it. And I would probably be mopy, and just let myself be sad. And you know, sort of the pity me idea. I think last week I was confused Wednesday as to why I was still so happy and not so sad that my grandpa passed away. I was confused why I was fine, because before I wouldn't be. But I have realized one of the biggest things I have learned on my mission is how to handle trials and adversity. On our missions we are so busy and we are always working and always caring more about the people we are around. Which in return allows us more happiness. I was still so happy last week because we were sharing the gospel, because we kept working so hard, because we were focused on others. That is the key to happiness. Serving God and focusing on others, and working hard. It's crucial! So I also think it is a key to overcoming our trials. They will still be hard, but when we stay so close to the spirit, he can comfort us and give us the strength to just keep going!

Oh I almost forgot, WE HAD AN EARTHQUAKE LAST WEEK! Haha very little, but it was in studies. My companion and I thought we would die because we live on a mountain and it was pouring rain as well. Eh, what can you do? Haha it was very small though. 

FIRST OF MAY--END OF PINGZHEN

May 5:  You know you have lived in Taiwan for a while when.... your favorite study time snack is seaweed. Haha really though so good!

 Anyway, this week we really have been blessed to see a lot of miracles!  We have been so blessed with our investigators and ward and everything in between. So I have a couple I want to tell you about! 1) So Friday night we were on our way to an appointment that was a little far away and we were already running a little late. So we are riding our bikes and Sister Chen says, "we need to go talk to them!" So I turn around and see a man and his son walking. So we instantly turn and go talk to them. We find out his 10 year old son goes to church every week, he is Christian. So we are talking to them and they are very interested and we have a lesson with them. This 10 year old boy prays every day and they both were just amazing! So we invited them to come to church that Sunday. The dad said he couldn't because of work, but his son could. He said he could just ride his bike there. So we got there information so set up again and were so excited! Well as we were sitting in ward council the elders ran out really fast. When they came back they said, "I think you have investigators here. A Xu Jiating." When we went out after ward council guess who actually came to church? Xu dixiong (remember how he said he couldn't???) and his son! It was a miracle to have them there. And our ward was so great to guanxi them and introduce themselves and sit with them. It was really amazing.