Hi everyone!
Ok so funny story, remember the cat incident from last week? We got a call from the Tanzi sisters earlier in the week asking if we'd helped a cat recently. Turns out that someone filmed us, and we were on the news. Here's the link:
So yeah, we're pretty much famous now in Taiwan.
In other news, the big event this week has been the start of the Light the World campaign. Happy December! Light the World is a worldwide Christmas event for our church that goes from December 1 to Christmas. Each day there's a small video, and a scripture. The goal is to use the scripture to think of a small act of service we can do that day. Here's the link to the webpage: www.mormon.org/
Sister Wu and I decided to invite members of our ward to pick one day to do the service with us. So far it's been really fun! We've been inviting everyone we can think of- ward members, investigators, random people we meet on the street. It turns out everyone's interested in spending an hour or so to do a little act of service. So far we've given out oranges and water bottles, and we've visited the home of a very adorable ama who lives near us.
That last one was an accident. We were knocking on doors last night trying to share the gospel, and the first door we knocked on was this ama. She opened the door and invited us right in before we even got a chance to say who we were. She explained that she was Buddhist and didn't really have interest, then proceeded to talk for the next half hour about her life, kids, and youth. She spoke mainly Taiwanese, so I couldn't really understand, but she really connected with Sister Wu. Despite the fact that we didn't get to share the gospel very much with her, she seemed really happy to see us, so it felt good to lift her and share our time with her.
One final event of the week- yesterday our ward's single Filipina member, Jenalyn decided she wanted to bear her testimony during fast and testimony meeting. She was talking about it with one of our members, Bella, whose English and Chinese are both quite good, so I assumed Bella would help her translate. When Jenalyn got up though, she got up alone, walked to the stand, and started bearing her testimony in English. The first counselor in the bishopric pointed at me, and motioned for me to come translate. So I did. It was absolutely terrifying. She gave a very beautiful testimony, and then I tried to at least communicate the main ideas. At the very least, I think my translation was comprehensible. The gift of tongues is so real.
Hope you all have a wonderful week! Go light the world!
Love,
Sister Hull
Pics:
1: The Light the World day 1 scripture was 'freely ye have recieved, freely give'. Recently people have given us a ridiculous amount of oranges, so we gave them all away to a bunch of kids at a cram school. Sister Lin came with us.
2: Day 2 was 'I was thirsty and ye gave me drink', so we passed out water bottles at Daya park. Sister Huang came with us, and brought her adorable 2 year old grandson.
3: The adorable 2 year old grandson.
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