Things in XinZhu got a lot better this week. I think we had a hard past 4 weeks that we saw little "success", but this past week was really good. We surpassed almost all of the golden standards and found 4 new investigators and set a new baptismal date with a woman who also gave us her son's info so missionaries in Australia can visit him! And Qiu Jie Mei (the investigator I've been working with for 6 months who quit smoking and drinking and is a single mom) got baptized!! Her less active nephew baptized her and her sister who is also a member couldn't come because she is in the hospital, but a ton of members came so it was awesome. And one of our Less Actives who I've been working with since I got here came to church two weeks ago, and came to the baptism and brought cheesecake, and she said she knows she needs to come to church more!
The new baptismal date we set, we went by her house for 10 minutes to pick up some gloves that we left there and share a short message. So we shared Ether 3:14 and bore our testimonies and she said, "I'm starting to feel more and more that maybe this is the God who has been helping me my whole life. I'm starting to think that maybe I just didn't know His name. Maybe now I do. I think maybe this is destiny that from Australia, America, and Taiwan we all met. I think maybe God sent you to me. I think maybe this is what I and my family are looking for. I think maybe, this is all true." It was such a huge miracle and blessing and I'm so excited to continue working with her!
And also. Downside to being white and never looking at the notices in Chinese that they put up in your apartment building. You don't know when they are turning off the water. So while you are studying Chinese and doing a roleplay practicing Chinese while pooping, you try and flush and suddenly realize there is no water. And that you don't have drinking water either. And the water won't be turned on for another 7 hours. Not that I really know what that feels like, but just saying that would be one downside to being a white person living in Taiwan. There are no other downsides though - we already have people scheduling times to have us come over and eat with them for Chinese New Year (you know I'm all over that and I'm already prepping for my stomach to expand to twice the size and gain 10 pounds).
Sorry the email is so short, but I love you and hope all is going well for all of you and this week really was full of miracles and successes.
Love,
Sister Perkins
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