Christmas in Taiwan "came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags!" but it was amazing. Maybe the hardest and best week of my entire mission (not that I've been here very long lol). So many miracles!!!
We were in a 7 one day and started talking to a woman. Turns out she was SUPER eager to hear about the gospel, she'd been to a ton of different churches and read a lot of different bibles but she didnt understand any of them. We showed her Moroni 10:4 in the Book of Mormon and she got really excited to the point of jumping out of her seat, saying, "I understand!!!!!! How is that possible?" And we said, "Because it's the word of God!" She was such a golden investigator and so anxious to learn!
But...it was very frustrating because I couldn't understand what was going on. She was asking so many questions that my companion was kept busy answering all of them so she wasn't able to translate. I would say I've never been more frustrated in my life, but that would be a lie, because math exists and math is worse than even Chinese.
But, meiyou wenti. I know I'll get the language eventually, it just might take a while. Aaaand on two different occasions this week we found waiguoren (foreigners) who spoke English!!! So we contacted them and I got to share the gospel with them in English!! It was so awesome to actually know what was going on for once haha! Sister Reeve and I started saying "It's a Christmas miracle, Charlie Brown!" anytime something awesome happened this week. :)
Our ward threw a huuuuge party on Christmas Eve! I forgot my camera reader so I'm very sorry I don't have pictures this week...but, it was awesome. There was so much food. They set up tables of food in the church garage and everyone just dove in! It was crazy and awesome. We were kept busy contacting all the nonmembers who had come to the party.
In the weeks before the party we tried to give out as many flyers for the Christmas party as we could, and I was praying that at least one of the people, out of the dozens we gave flyers to, would actually show up. Well, someone did!!! A man we found in a 7/11 a couple weeks before brought his niece and nephew! It was awesome. The party was great too, there was a nativity and music and an Asian Santa. Nobody in Taiwan really celebrates Christmas so it was awesome the have a ward who wanted to celebrate anyway.
MEMBER MISSIONARY STORY OF THE WEEK: A member took us out to lunch, and while we were eating the waiter asked "Are you church people?" The member, Chen Jie Mei, started talking to the waiter: "Yes, they're church people. They're from the mormon church. They're here for a year and a half and they teach lessons about Jesus Christ." She just kept talking and telling our waiter all about us and about the church! She bore her testimony and asked if he wanted to learn more! And he did! We set up a meeting with him! Whaaaaaaat!!! So, challenge for this week: Take the missionaries out to lunch and introduce them to your waiter. Your missionaries will LOVE YOU.
Anyway, that was long and rambly. But I wanted to bear testimony of my Savior. I am so happy that on the most holy day of the year I got to think about Christ. I got to celebrate Him, to remember His birth and how much He did for all of us. I know that my Redeemer lives.
Much love!
Sister Daynes
Deng Jie Mei
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