Hey all!
So this past week started off with my companion, Sister Anderson, on her bike going full speed (and trust me, we can go pretty speedy) running into a stationary parked truck on the side of the road...bahahah. I heard a crash, turned around, and at first was so worried she got hit or something, was relieved when I found out she was ok, and laughed so hard when I realized she crashed into a stationary object. She jumped up, talked to the Chinese owner of the truck in Chinglish and gave him a pamphlet, and said to me, "How did that happen? I was singing Jesus, Savior, Pilot Me..." Bahahhaha. What a hoot. Luckily she was ok, a little bruise, a little blood (gross, you know I hate blood and scabs), and the handlebar of her bike went straight through her skirt and ripped a huge hole.
A particularly happy moment this week, just a small moment, a small miracle. Sister Anderson and I got to sit in the sun outside our church for a couple minutes eating ice cream and it was so happy and I was so grateful for the sun (it has been cloudy recently).
Also, another investigator committed to a baptismal date this week! She can communicate with spirits...? But she said one time it was really bad when she was young and her mom took her to the hospital, left because she thought she died, and then the investigator said that Jesus saved her, and she's been trying to read and understand the Bible ever since. Super crazy, but super cool!
Oh and we had a ton of service this week! We have a member who is moving into a new apartment that hasn't been lived in since August, so we helpedclean it out and it was so dirty and disgusting and I had black snot/boogers for like a week. Loved it. And we are going back again this week to help paint it!
For English class this week we had a Thanksgiving Party! The missionaries all performed a bunch of stuff, so we sang songs and beat boxed, showcased some art (my comp and I are painting a picture of a tiger, super cool and we are going to go buy matching tiger pants today...I don't know when I started loving tigers so much, but they're really cool), ate chicken and mashed potatoes and weird rice balls and not sweet brownies (beecause hey, we're in Taiwan, why would they be sweet?). It was really great.
We also biked a million miles up this HUGE GINORMOUS MONSTER of a hill. We biked up a hill for 10 km or 6 miles. It was straight up this hill. (I realize that was like the lamest I could've made that story but just thinking about that hill makes me tired.) But we got free lunch at the top of the hill, a lunch that brought my face leprosy back -_____-
This week at church we had 2 investigators come and a bunch of Less Actives and it was so awesome. And right now in December we are planning for 4 pretty positive baptisms and hopefully more as we do more finding and find those prepared and people who need help. We are looking for a lot more service opportunities (serving is so fun!) and this week we served for 5 hours, so that was great.
Miracle! Our elders called us and told us that this boy they met on the street who became their new investigator already has a book of Mormon and said that a Sister Perkins and Anderson gave it to him. So cool! Even though when we met him, he wasn't willing to meet or anything, he remembered us giving him a Book of Mormon and he is now their investigator!
I love this work, this place, bike riding, face rashes (ok, not so much), singing songs, meeting new people, and having crazy experiences.
I know that prayers work and that God listens and loves us.
Love,
Sister Perkins (aka, Pan Jie Mei)
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