Mission Successful

So just telling everyone that next week my p-day is Wed. Feb 5 because we're going to the temple (!!) so I'll email on Wednesday. 

I ate at Taco House and had a burrito and nachos for $3. I love Taiwan. But it is such a sad thing that there is no guacamole in this place called Taiwan. Alas, earwax.

Mission Success: We were given free ice cream (the delicious mixed chocolate vanilla soft serve ice cream) by this old lady on a freezing day. I enjoyed it so much.

A high school girl who we met with 6 months ago came to church a couple times in August and didn't like it and said she wouldn't come back again because she didn't have friends, but we took a young woman who just moved into the ward (our church congregation) to go visit her and they were not only in the same middle school, but also in the same club: Recorder club. Classic. I always knew there was a reason every child is forced to learn to play the recorder. So she came to church this past Sunday and must have liked it because that night she went to a Young Woman's activity where they watched a movie (Tuesdays with Morris - I've never heard of it) and invited us to come eat dinner with them - so delicious! 

And we got to go inside an ancient Taiwanese apartment that made me think of Empire of the Sun. It was old and dusty but it was 4 stories tall and the sun was stretching it's beaming fingers into the dusty living room and it was so quaint and lovely and I want to live there and clean it up and sell it and make loads of money. 

And with a recent convert (someone who just got baptized) we watched the Restoration (20 min movie about Joseph Smith) and when Joseph Smith had the first vision and Heavenly Father and Christ appeared to him the convert's 6 year old daughter said, "Mom! I see them! Look! There's two people! Standing in the light! This is the story you told me yesterday!" It was so cute and so amazing to see how their lives had changed and how that young girl's life will be changed forever. 

I love this work and I love God and I sound like a crazy person but I know that He is real and that He can change your life if you let Him. I know all of our past mistakes and our bad feelings can all be erased. They can be gone. Any guilt or regret or bad feeling can be erased through the gospel of Christ and through baptism we can be made clean and new again.

I love you all!

Love,

Sister Perkins