I just got a new companion! Her bike hasn't gotten here yet so to ride to the internet cafe today I had to use one of the elders old bikes. The chain conveniently fell off halfway here so I had to put it back one. Now I have dirty dirty hands. It's a beautiful sight.
Okay so new companion! GUESS WHAT! I'm not training again. That's cool because I was really tired. I've aged probably fifty years...ba. It's bad. But now that I have short hair I look young again. And apparently I've lost weight. All the people in our ward keep asking if I'm on a diet or if I'm okay because they say I've become really really thin in my face and the rest of me. It's weird. I don't feel any different. But I have been exercising better. Maybe that's it.
Anyway my new companion! She's from Taiwan and was baptized 7 years ago. Her parents aren't members but all of her sisters are. She's super cool and I like her a lot. (Sister Lin). Also she doesn't speak any English so I get to speak Chinese all the time. I'm learning a lot. I learned how to say dustpan! So great! My Chinese will become really good with her I think. Also she's gonna learn English because we have two only English speaking investigators. Holla!
I miss Sister Hammer, but she's gonna keep doing miracles in other places. Also Sister Boyer is training someone this transfer which is super cool. She's awesome. I love all my companions.
Also since I have native I'll get to try more foods! So let the eating festival begin. I had about 5 chicken hearts the other day. They're actually not too bad. I LOVE TO EAT AND I'M SO EXCITED TO TRY EVERYTHING!
I have a goal for our area though. I don't know how long I'll be here, but that doesn't matter. I hope that next transfer (so six weeks from now), we've worked hard enough that the ward can have a baptism every week. I know we can do it. Bade is the land of miracles and ready to be up and running. It's a good time to be doing missionary work!
General conference was good. I watched all of it, but the Sunday afternoon session I had to watch in Chinese. I pretty much understood the gist of it. It was good. I liked a lot of the talks. I felt like this conference was a lot of cracking down on moral standards and pushing forward missionary work.. but maybe that's because I'm a missionary and I watch it from a missionary perspective.
I really liked Elder Ballard's talk. Something I struggle with on my mission is fear to speak to people. Typical. It is actually a huge stumbling block that I can't afford to have. I really liked though that Elder Ballard promised that as we kneel down and pray in faith and ask for opportunities to share the gospel, fear will go away. That's true. It was good to hear that and remind myself that I can do it. Sister Lin and I will talk to everyone this transfer. I can learn a lot from her.
I also started thinking. Someone had talked about how faith precedes the miracle. I'd like to add to that. "Faith precedes the miracle. And gratitude must follow it." We need to express our thanks for everything. I've started saying gratitude prayers while we bike long distances. It has been a big boost. I have so much to be grateful for. I'm really grateful for all of you and the support you give to me and the prayers you send my way. I'm a very lucky daughter and sister.
I love you all. I know this is true and I know that we have a living prophet. I know that Jesus Christ is the leader of our church.
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