Hey Everyone!

Hi Everyone!

Miracles are happening in Daya, and it's fun to see them start forming. This week's highlight was our ward's Plan of Salvation activity. The goal of the activity was to help the ward members invite their friends to come and learn about the church. We started with a potluck dinner. After dinner, we had everyone go down to a room set up to look like the inside of an airplane. We showed a video of the airplane taking off, then crashing. Then two guys dressed in white came in and explained that they were angels and everyone had died in the crash. They then proceeded to give them a tour of what happens to us after death. 

I realize that this sounds extremely morbid. In reality, the crash video was cheesy, and two of the goofiest guys in our ward- the Ward Mission Leader and the Young Men's President- were the angels, so it was pretty lighthearted. There were also masses of screaming children with very short attention spans.  On the tour, the angels took the audience through different rooms  representing the spirit world, resurrection and judgement, and the three kingdoms of glory. In each room we had one or two ward members pretending to be an inhabitant of that area. They introduced what each place was like, and why they were there. We ended the tour in the Chapel, which was supposed to represent the Celestial Kingdom. A member of the ward bore his testimony of the Plan of Salvation, and we sang 'I Am a Child of God' and 'Families can be Together Forever'. It was a really cool way to end the night. 

I was a little unsure of how the activity went over with the ward, mainly because of the screaming children, but on Sunday I got my answer. They liked it so much that they want to do it again as a part of our Christmas celebration with the Tanzi wards. Which means we get to do this all again.... yayyy... The activity was a lot of fun, but it was also a crazy amount of work to get it all together. 

We had a cool little miracle come out of the activity. A few days before, we were contacting at the park, and I had a thought to invite a lady sitting near the playground to come to the activity. We chatted for a few minutes, gave her a flier, and left. Miracle number one: she showed up, and brought her 3 year old daughter! One of our amazing members sat next to her the whole time, chatted with her, and made her feel welcome. She said she really has interest in finding a place for her daughter to make good friends and stuff, so we invited her to church the next day. Miracle number two: She showed up to church, and stayed the whole three hours. I think she really enjoyed it, despite a rather interesting Sunday School lesson in which our teacher went on for an hour about how food was scarce in Taiwan during World War 2, and also gave us incorrect information about the health benefits of fasting. At the end of church, we had miracle number 3: She set up to meet with us on Wednesday! She seems super interested in the church, so we're really excited to share all the amazing blessings of the gospel with her. It's amazing to see how Heavenly Father led us to her. 

Hope you all have an amazing week! 

Love, 

Sister Hull

Pics: 

1. Us preparing for the activity. We made signs for each room, and the Elders printed out scriptures to go with the signs. It turns out that Sister Wu is amazing and can write in block characters.

2. We celebrated Sister Wu's first week in Daya with ice cream. It's only been a week and a half, but I can already tell we're gonna be a wonderful companionship! Sister Wu's awesome! Funny and lighthearted and dedicated to the work.

3. I hit an important milestone this week: I tried stinky tofu. After all the things I've heard about it, I was more than a little nervous, but it's actually not too bad. I ate four of the five pieces happily, though by the fifth one the flavor was a little overbearing. 

4. Unfortunately, I took no pictures of the actual Plan of Salvation activity. Here are pictures of the flier we handed out, as well as the plan ticket everyone got as they entered the plane. The QR code links to the church's website, and on the back is a picture of the Plan of Salvation, complete with scriptures. Both flier and ticket were designed by our extremely talented members.