(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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