November 5, 2012

Well Hello there again!

As always this has been a fun filled and spirit filled week! First of all, yesterday at church we had so many little miracles happen. One of the hardest things we have been trying to get better at is getting our investigators at church. Well long story short and a lot of prayers later, 4 ended up coming. It was so great! One of the Best Sundays EVER! Then in our english ward, right before sacrament meeting started, a man and a chinese woman walked in and sat in the back. We turned back to us and said that he needed to talk to us after, of course we were SO excited! Well, he just moved to arizona 3 weeks ago from Boston where he went to school and became a doctor and all that exciting stuff. He met his friend LL at a Fed Ex shop where she works and started talking to her about the church. Turns out that a few weeks before that someone had given her a book of mormon and she had been reading it and was interested in its teachings :D Well, up in Tempe where he lives he had her and the missionaries over and she had a lesson with them. He gave her a chinese Book of mormon and she has been reading a lot. BUT, she lives down here so he thought it would be better for her to get comfortable in the ward she would be in. So we have a lesson with her on Tuesday. She speaks pretty good english, but chinese is her first language so we are having the lesson at our bishops house, and he knows mostly japanese, but a little chinese too. Needless to say, we are super excited! We are not sure how he started talking to her about the gospel at a fed ex shop, but he really knows his stuff when it comes to gosple teachings and has a super strong testimony. The Lord prepares people all over the world to hear the gospel and when we get to see the little miracles that happen, it is amazing. Oh....and his name is Brother Monson (go figure :)

Well Halloween was great! We literally read the new testament for 7 hours (and it was great!) and then went straight home. But we heard some really cool things that were coming up. So by april, the tempe mission is supposed to have 60 extra missionaries. We have on average 190 now, and by april 250. SWEET! Also with that, we are hoping that means spanish serving missionaries will be able to focus on the spanish work more, don't get me wrong, LOVE the english ward we are in, but there is just SO much WORK TO do. It would be nice to be able to focus more and get more done. AND in December Elder Cook is coming to speak to our mission. SO we are all super excited about the changes that are coming up.

And on wednesday we are having a sisters exchange. Sister taylor is staying here for 2 days and I am going to a different area. Should be fun:). And sad day but I am trying to get a new bike. Mine just isn't going to work for missionary work. I really like it, but the handle bars don't go up at all and it is making me super achy all the time from being bent over. Wish I had realized that BEFORE I bought it, but it will all work out. There is a shop in Tempe that buys bikes and I am hoping that it will all just work out like it is in my head:)