Sorry I have been getting on the computer really early the last couple of weeks. I can't make any guarantees that it won't be this early from now on though. It's kinda nice to get the emails writen first thing in the morning so we have the rest of the day to do our things. Okay, now that I've said all that- on to the news!
Hello from Dali! Life is fabulous here with all sorts of miracles happening daily. This is an area unlike any other I have served in. I feel like the Lord is really preparing the hearts of so many women here to hear the gospel. Granted, we still don't have people lining up at the baptismal font, but we are seeing little miracles each day that are helping the work here move forward. I love it!
One really cool miracle happened on Friday evening. We had a lesson set up with a new investigator for that evening, but earlier in the afternoon she had called to say we couldn't meet with her because her family opposes (which actually has happened a lot recently). So while Sister Liston was doing some language study after dinner I was calling through the contact cards of people we have met on the street recently but didn't set up with. I asked one lady if we could go visit her the next day or the day after that and to my surprise she said, "I'm free right now." So we hoped on our little bikes and pedaled away to WuFeng. The lady, Hong Xiao Jie was sooo cool! She actually already had a Book of Mormon and had read to Mosiah 27! That's not even the end of the miracle yet. We invited her to come to church on Sunday but she said she had to go home to Jhang Hua to visist her mom so she couldn't come. Then, Sunday morning rolls around and guess who drove into the parking lot bright and early!?!? Yep, none other than our now Hong Jie Mei. She stayed for all three hours, was welcomed by the ward, and loved the peaceful feeling she had. It was so cool! I love being able to be a part of so many of the Lord's miracles.
Another couple really cool experiences happened this week as we planned, prepared, and went through with inviting our three most promising progressing investigators to be baptized on specific dates! Our zone leaders invited us to do this at CDTM on Thursday which gave us an extra boast to actually do it. I won't go in to all the details, but in the end 2 of the 3 accepted goals for the 3rd of March! The third one said she doesn't have enough faith to We're so excited! Now we have our work cut out for us to help all three actually enter the waters of baptism and prepare for an enduring conversion.
A down side of the week was when our investigator who is supposed to get baptized in two weeks didn't come to church- and as a result became a drop out baptism. That's the worst. Ya. We had confirmed her for church as well as the Relief Society President, but in the end she still didn't come. We were so disappointed because it wasn't work that kept her away from church. But, we and the ward are not giving up on her! She is so prepared and we love her so much. She is the Sister Huang who's 19-year-old daughter unexpectedly passed away a few years ago. She's so great!
This week is POWER WEEK! That means we don't get language study time at all during the week and all of our meals are eaten on the go. This allows us to have even more time finding, teaching, and rescueing! This is a mission-wide thing that we do every year after the Chinese new year to help get everyone all boosted up and ready to go! Each day has a special theme- Power Cleaning/Power FHE night, Power sit-down lessons, Power find new investigators, power lessons taught with investigators present, power recent convert/less-active member lessons, power talk to everyone day, and then power church day! So each day we'll focusing on getting whatever it is for that day. It's so fun! Do other missions do this as well? Do tell!
Now that I have written your eyes off I will go ahead and close. I love you all. And I love The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I know that Jesus Christ is at the head of His Church leading and guiding us through His living Prophet. I know that the Book of Mormon and Holy Bible are the word of God. Study them and apply them in your life and you will see miracles. I promise you that because I am a living witness. I say all of these things in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
Love,
Sister Amy Reece
p.s. we went shopping last p-day and I ran into one of my recent converts from another area. Miracle! She is the one in the middle and her sister is on the end. Her name is Xuan Hui and I love her!
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