So yeah, sorry this email is going to be super short and not so informative. And that it's late. We are going to the temple today! So our PDay got changed and I had to wake up super early to get here and I'm not fully here and we have to go catch a train to Taipei soon.
But this week was awesome! We had exchanges with the Sister Training Leaders and I learned so much about how to contact people and how to ask inspired questions and that is something I'm really going to work hard on this week.
This week was also a week of miracles! Huang Jing hui got baptized! It was so great even though it was a little crazy. We had the baptism before our church started so she could be confirmed in sacrament meeting but the ward before suddenly wouldn't let us fill up the font, so the water was really low. And this guy who has only done like 1 baptism before was doing the baptism (which is fine, I'm all for converts helping in the baptism) but it wasn't successful the first time. Oh well. sall good. She got baptized and was super happy and bore a great testimony and has a goal to go to the temple in a year.
Another investigator who smokes and drinks said she heard a voice telling her she needs to get baptized next month. So she's going to be baptized on the 13 of November! And she read the whole Book of Mormon in 2 weeks! And we taught her about tithing and she saw that the scripture said it was from the book of Malachi and she was like, this is wrong. I read this. But Malachi isn't in the book of mormon. So she went and searched by herself and found the scripture that talks about tithing and I was like, wow! You're amazing! I love her so much.
I love watching the lives of investigators change. And Less Actives as they regain their testimonies. I love this work and I saw so many miracles this week.
Oh and also got in my first bike wreck this week. My comp ran into me...I was fine, I didn't even bleed. She had a huge bruise on her back and her elbow was bleeding. Whoops. But on the bright side, we got up and would have kept riding but I had to get my bike fixed. But we were all good. Lots of people stared. It was great.
And weird. My companion and I were searching for the house of a Less Active and we go down this tiny alley knocking all these doors to see if these people know our less active/to contact them. We look through this crack in the wall and see a woman in a kitchen. We ask if we can go in. She welcomes us, we were amazed! Then she told us to go into this other room. Weird. So we go in and there is this really fat huge guy in this chair sitting there. 2 boys smoking. A woman playing on her phone. And they pointed us to this couch and just sat there. We started chatting and talking about families being together forever and taught them how to pray when all of a sudden we find out that we are in a miao and we are in this room and the huge guy runs the miao/buddhist temple...and then this huge parade float with drums comes up as one of the smoking guys prayed. It was so weird/surreal. And it was so cool. But we will not be going to preach inside miaos again...it was accidental so I think it's a great story.
I love you all!
Love,
Sister Perkins
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