Hot Rod

When I ride my bike here sometimes I feel like Joseph Gordon-Levitt from Premium Rush, sometimes I feel like Hot Rod, and all the time I feel like Buddy the Elf, "The yellow ones don't stop!" But I'm getting a lot better at riding my bike and can now do bike signals without feeling like I'm going to die.

 

My sole reason for coming to Taiwan (other than saving souls) was to find out the wonders of Taro bread. Oh my, so delicious. A day without eating at least one Taro filled bread bun is a day wasted. I love the food here (but I still haven't tried Stinky Tofu, so I'm not quite sure).

 

Also, people used to make fun of me for drinking hot chocolate during the summertime in Utah even though our house had AC and I was cold in the morning. Here, it's so hot all the time and not much cooler in our apartment and we still have hot chocolate for breakfast. You know it's bad when it gets to 34 degrees celsius at 7pm and you think it is so cool that it is way too hot.

 

I went to my first psych ward here to visit a less active whose sister is in the hospital. I wrote part of a card in Chinese for her and my companion wrote the rest. And the woman in the psych ward said, How old is the person who wrote this first part? -____- wow. I guess my handwriting is worse than I thought. But she has a lot of faith and loves to pray and read the Book of Mormon so it was really good to visit her.

 

The hardest rule for me to follow here is shaving my legs. Why do I have to shave my legs? I mean I know I represent the Lord and I wear a skirt. But we have like no time to shower and also it's so mafan/annoying. But I had a dream the other night that the only place I had to shave on my legs was in my knee pit because there was a huge bulge of hair and it was so big I had to cut it with scissors first. Pretty gross, guess that's a sign that I should shave.

 

We had a miracle this week where we have an investigator who stopped progressing. And my comp decided to have one of our members come to a lesson with her, so we went to ask that member (because they both have 4 year old kids) and they are already best friends! And during that lesson her son was sick with a 41 degree C fever but he was running around and yelling DA BIAN and WO DE JIAO (which mean poop and my foot). I think I was the only one laughing, because I am about as mature as a 4 year old boy. But they are going to invite that investigator to come to church so that is super good.

 

Another miracle is there was this less active sister with a 3 year old daughter and 10 month old son and a couple months ago she started being really active again. We visited their family with the elders and her non-member husband became an investigator and he whispered to his three year old daughter when we were watching the Restoration that she would grow up in this church and that they would be an eternal family! Such a miracle and such a golden investigator and wonderful family.

And one of our investigators passed her baptismal interview and is getting baptized this Saturday! I can't believe how much her life has changed and how much happier she is. I know this is the Lord's work and that He prepares people for us to teach and change their lives.

 

I love all of you so much and I pray for you everyday!

Love,

Sister Perkins

 

ps. sorry this email is all over the place, I had to poop in a squat pot at this internet cafe so I had less time to email than usual.