Hi Sammy,
Do you like our new bunny? His name is PePe or Sunny.
We got a really cool Mansion for PePe to live in. I call him PePe instead of Sunny.
He is really soft.
I miss you!
Skylar
April Fool's Bailey!!!
PePe!
Sunday, September 3, 2017
Letter from Mom to Sammy (April 2, 2017)
Hi Sammy,
How was your week?
Ours was jam-packed with games:
Jack had 2 baseball games.
Carson had 3 baseball games - a Wood Bat Baseball tournament this weekend. We had to buy Carson a wood bat for the tournament and it actually broke on one of his hits! A $129 bat that he used twice. :(
Bailey had 2 lacrosse games. She is busy because practices are every weekday from 6:00-8:00pm but it's good to be busy in high school!
Thursday evening I had my (last) relief society activity in my calling. I just learned that I'm being released from it. My new calling is assistant nursery leader. I guess I'll start that after conference. It's always an adjustment switching from one calling to another. I was hoping to stay in this calling longer but I guess there's another plan for me. :)
Conference - Conference has been awesome. Where do you guys watch it? It's so nice having a week off to watch it in pjs and on the couch. Skylar helped get the candy ready for the candy bowls - for the candy game.
April Fools Day - Skylar and I "peeped" Bailey's car. I'll send you a photo of it. Dad got Carson by taking out his cereal in his Cap'n Crunch box and replacing it with another bag of crummy Gluten Free cereal. Carson was pretty mad. So that was pretty funny.
I love you babe! You are doing such great things!
love & hugs,
mom
March 12 Letter from Sister Daynes
I know I sent this last week but for some reason I guess it didn't go
through! Well, here it is again!
Does anyone remember Chen Jie Mei, the woman we met at a 7/11 one of
my first weeks in Taiwan? The woman who was so anxious to learn about
the gospel, and who tried to drop us several times but couldn't
because she knew the Book of Mormon was true?
If you don't, that's ok. Basically we've been working with her ever
since I got to Taiwan and she has been very sick for the past month.
We finally met with her again this week and she was able to get a
priesthood blessing, which is a special blessing people can receive
that helps them to be healed. Well after the blessing, we started
talking to her and our bishop helped explain to her a little more
about baptism. He explained that it's something we do to become brand
new people. Our sins are washed away and we become completely clean.
Chen Jie Mei's eyes were lit up the whole time with so much hope and
longing. We asked her if she wanted to be baptized, and she said
yes!!! It's such a miracle. It's been a long time coming, but she is
learning and progressing and this gospel is changing her life for the
better. We love her and are so excited for her.
We also had a miracle this week in the form of a 12-year old boy named
Ryan who came to English class and we set up to teach him a lesson.
During weekly planning we were thinking about numbers for the week and
Sister Greenhalgh kept saying, "We're going to see miracles this week
because of Ryan, I can feel it." We laughed about it because we'd
never met with him so we had no idea if Ryan was going to have any
potential. Well we get to the lesson and it turns out he is so excited
to learn about Christ! Most of his family is Christian, we taught him
about prayer and the Book of Mormon and he has been praying every day
since we met him! He also came to church on Sunday! He also has
tourette syndrome so he twitches really bad, but when he talks it
doesn't bother him at all. He thinks this gospel can help him have
God's strength. He is so special because he is only 12 years old but
is so mature, and is super funny too! We can see big miracles in his
future.
Also, we saw a fire this week. That was interesting. We have an
investigator who is an ambulance driver (Kelvin, if anyone remembers
him) so every time we see an ambulance I look in the fornt window to
see if it's him.
Miracles happen every day here in Taiwan. It's crazy that I'm here and
sometimes it can be overwhelming. I am still slowly working on the
language and sometimes it can be really frustrating when I don't know
what anyone is saying. But I know there are angels bearing me up. And
when we see miracles through people like Chen Jie Mei and Ryan, it's
all worth it. Much love to you all.x
Sister Daynes
E-mail letter from Jack to Sammy (March 12, 2017)
So I am here and I had a good day today so yeah. Dad said he might buy a LEAF security cam set. That would be legit, cuz Max, Jak, Mason and I like to play this game called hide and go Helen. Jack has this manikin head named Helen and we play a game where somebody holds Helen and tries to jumpscare you. It's freaky, but if we had a LEAF system it would be so fun to play with the cameras. So yeah.
Jack. BTW I died. xP (turn head sideways)
LOL powers! :D
Monday, May 29, 2017
Sunday, March 12, 2017
Quick note to my parents - March 5, 2017
The only Disney on Ice ad I have seen anywhere in Taiwan.
Love you both!!!! So glad you're having a great time!
P.S. I wrote this to President this week:
Sister Greenhalgh is awesome. She is so kind and so good at her job. I'm learning a lot from her. I know I was really worried about switching companions, but just like you and the Lord and everyone else told me, everything worked out just fine. Sister Reeve compared her mission to a painting, and she said we need lots of different paintbrushes to complete the entire picture. If Sister Reeve was the big flowy paintbrush that sent color splattering all over the canvas, then Sister Greenhalgh is the black fountain pen that starts to etch a drawing onto the canvas. I love seeing what this canvas is turning out to look like.
Letter #20 - "Goodbye Until Tomorrow"
(Letter sent on Feb. 27, 2017)
It's been a whirlwind of a week. I am still in Yuanlin, but my wonderful companion Sister Reeve has been transferred to Gaoxiong, way down South. I have cried quite a lot this week...this girl absolutely changed my life, turned it upside down and made me into a better person. I love her to death. It's been an incredible 12 weeks.
My new companion is Sister Greenhalgh (pronounced Green-ouch). She was actually my STL last transfer, so I'd been on exchanges with her before! She has two transfers left so it looks like she'll get to finish her mission in Yuanlin. :)
We had a really cool contacting experience this week on our way back from a Sisters conference in Jiayi (down south). We were on a train and as we got on I felt like the man getting on behind me was important, I couldn't say why exactly, it was just a feeling. So we started talking to him and I felt really nervous because we would be on that train for an hour and a half and how would this conversation end, how long would it go on for before he lost interest? But it didn't end. Soon we figure out he speaks nearly FLAWLESS English so it suddenly becomes sooooo much easier for me to talk to him. He told us he believes in an invisible force that is God that supports us, but he's searched in different places before and has never really been sure who God is. We explained that he is a person of flesh and blood and he is our Father. We taught him to pray and although we didnt have a Book of Mormon on hand, we told him about the book and he asked "do you have an app for it?" and looked it up right there on his phone! Everything he said made it sound to me that this man is super prepared. He has been searching for God all his life. He's had hard experiences and has had to build himself up again, all the time relying on this force that he doesn't completely understand that supports him. Everything in his life has been culminating to that moment on the train, when we got to meet him. It was so amazing to be a tool in God's hands to see that moment happen. He lives in Tainan so we won't get to teach him, but it was still incredible. (Also, he is a huge Padres fan. He loves Tony Gwynn and his English name is Kevin Brown, after, you know, Kevin Brown. Call that what you will - I call it a miracle).
-Amusement park with my adorable companion
-All the sisters in the Southern part of the mission at a conference :)
-This morning as we were walking Sister Greenhalgh's luggage to the apartment, our Relief Society President pulled over and insisted we let her load Sister G's bags onto her motorcycle!!!! It was the funniest thing I'd ever seen.P.S. above caption is from "the last five years"
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