So MIRACLES. Let me just talk about our beloved 許姊妹. She is incredible!!! So last week we shared tithing with her on Wednesday. Which she had some problems accepting.
So it was hard because we didn't know what to do. So we decided to fast on Thursday. My friends, fasting really does have power and it's a real thing. We fasted for her to receive an answer about tithing (because we invited her to pray about it). Well Friday night we were able to meet with her again and had one of the most incredible spirit filled lessons I have ever had on my mission. So we get in the lesson and we had decided to just talk to her and figure out how she felt about things and if she had recieved her answer and resolve her concerns. The spirit just led us in this lesson. At the very beginning she said, "I have been thinking about tithing, I am worried that they just want people to be baptized to pay tithing and get money. But I don't think that is what this is so I just want more understanding." So it was cool because we had been on mormon.org the day before and I had been looking up tithing so I could give her the address so she could go read about it. So I had written it down. So our peike pulled it up just right there and she read it, so then she knew exactly where the money was going. Which helped.
But that wasn't like the cool part. After that we just started bearing testimony about how this gospel has not only blessed us but our family as well. Her family isn't a member. And as we were bearing testimony I sort of compared it to how I am serving a mission. How me being here isn't just effecting myself or the taiwanese people, but it is blessing my family at home, even though we are so far apart. I remember mom telling me a story about how the gas pipe had a whole in it or something but she had a feeling to check it and something. Anyway, something dangerous and how at the end of that letter mom told me I know we are okay because you are on a mission. Anyway so we were just bearing testimony that as she joins the church she will be an example and it will change her family as well. And after we bore testimony the spirit was so strong and she looked at us and started to cry and we asked how she felt and she said, "我有一個相信的感覺" (I have a believing feeling). And the spirit was powerful. So powerful. And then we continued to share with her about fasting and about fast offerings (which we were a little worried about because it's also dealing with money.) But she loved fasting! And after that we asked her again if she would be willing to live the law of tithing and fasting after she is baptized, and she said she is! It was incredible. I know that fasting is real and it works. I know it because we were able to BE THERE when she recieved her answer.
Sorry that was such a long story. But it was so cool. And it was one of those times where I just knew that the spirit was directing Sister Koch and my words.
Anyway, other than that we have just seen so many little miracles that we have been able to see. It's just been really incredible and Beitou is just doing good. I love it here. I loooooooove the members here.
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