I'm Alive!

Ok so good news, I'm alive! And this might be a long email, since it's been like a month since my last email. 

On January 11th, we said goodbye to Sister Wu and sent her off to the MTC! She went to the MTC with one other sister from our area, so I was companions with the other orphaned sister, and things worked out nicely. In the picture are Sister Lin, Sister Wu, Sister Liang (my companion for 3 weeks, and me).
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The night after we dropped off Sisters Wu and Lin, Sister Liang and I both got sick. I only had food poisoning, so I got better after like two days, but Sister Liang stayed sick for entire three weeks we were together, so I passed the time pretty much like this:

Being unable to leave the house for three weeks does interesting things to a person's mind. I am extremely thankful for the Gospel Library app. After a while though, it got to the point that I took up embroidery. I'm not joking.

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So that's pretty much how January went. UNTIL, Sunday morning we got transfer calls, aaand... I got moved to Zhanghua! ​Moving was nervewracking because both Sister Liang and I were moving and we had about 24 hours to completely pack and make all the arrangements to get us and our suitcases to our various destinations. It all worked out though, and this first week in Zhanghua has been so much fun! My new companion is Sister Hubner (there are dots over the u, but this computer refuses to do them). Here we are on our first day together:

Sister Hubner is amazing! She's super dedicated to sharing the gospel, and we've seen some serious miracles! We found five new investigators this week! Here are some other highlights: 

We were out exploring a smaller village in our area, and we stopped in a 7-11 to do some studies. A mom with two small children approached us. Without saying a word to us, she pulled up a chair to our table and sat her three year old daughter on it. She pulled her 2 year old son up next to her daughter, then left to wander the store and take care of some stuff. The poor little boy looked incredibly terrified. He flung his arm out and grasped my hand in a death grip. He managed to make it a few more minutes before the fear engulfed him and he melted onto the floor in tears. 

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The mom came and scooped him up, but left the daughter with us. The daughter was not afraid to talk to us, and told us in confidence that she sometimes sneaks sips of her mom's milk tea. That was the only thing she said that we could understand. A few minutes later the mom wandered back over with three cups of pudding for us and her daughter. She gave them to us and left again, so we had a pudding party with a three year old. It was the best day ever. 

Our district in this area is a little unusual. We have six sisters and two elders. The elders have started calling us the Relief Society. This week during exercise time we all got together and played ultimate frisbee. It was freezing cold, but a ton of fun! Here we are with two other sisters from our district, Sister Young and Sister Dower:
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We were contacting at a park the other day, and saw this dad teaching his son Taichi. We immediately ran over and asked if we could do it with them. The dad was very gracious, and taught us a basic taichi sequence, then even photographed us doing the sequence along with his son. It was incredibly relaxing, and we were able to share a video about Jesus with them afterward! They were pretty much the coolest family ever. Unfortunately, my email has gotten too big, so I can't put on another picture. I should probably wrap up anyway. 

It has been such an incredible week. Sister Hubner and I have been having an amazing time making plans and figuring out ways to improve in our work. We've been finding miracles, and having such a fun time doing it! I truly have a testimony that this is Heavenly Father's work, and that as long as we continually try our best miracles will happen. 

Hope you all have a great week!

Love,

Sister Hull