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