Hi Everyone!
Holy cow, this week has been insanely busy. One of those weeks that simultaneously feels like it stretched for a month and was over in an hour. I've come home every night feeling mentally, physically, spiritually, and emotionally exhausted. It's awesome! We've been working really hard, and we've seen some incredible miracles from it.
A few weeks ago in Zhanghua second ward, we visited a nursing home and asked if we could come back and do an activity with the old people there. We planned it as a district activity, so even though I moved areas, I was still able to go back. We sang hymns to the old people, and taught them the actions to a few primary songs. At first it was kind of awkward, but by the end we were having a lot of fun!
After we sang, we went and chatted with the old people a bit. Most of them only spoke Taiwanese, and some didn't speak at all, but thumbs up and smiles are pretty universal, so we were at least able to communicate a little bit with each one. We also spent a long time after chatting with the staff and sharing about our church. Afterwards we went home and went on with our missionary work, but we had no idea that there were still miracles coming. Yesterday morning we were at church and a man approached us, told us it was his first time there, and asked where to go. Turns out he was also at the nursing home that day, and was impressed by the message we shared, so he thought he'd come check our church out! People really do pay attention to the little things we do everyday, and it's definitely our actions that make a difference more than our words.
Riding back from the nursing home as a district was a funny sight, so we snapped a pic at a stoplight. Now that we have another set of Elders, we can no longer call our district the Relief Society. We decided on Army of Helaman instead.
One more miracle of the week: my MTC companion, Sister Fisher, got called as my Sister Training Leader this transfer! This means that for as long as we're both in these areas, every six weeks we'll be able to spend 24 hours together doing missionary work. I got to be her very first exchange as an STL, and it was a joy to serve with her and to look back and see how much we've grown. I still have a long way to go, but I'm also very far away from the nervous little sister in the MTC panicking about learning Chinese. Sister Fisher has also changed a lot. She's confident and driven and full of new ideas. I couldn't be more excited that she's my STL! We took a picture to commemorate the occasion, and of course we had to use Line filters. I think we pull off the heavy eyebrows and goatee pretty darn well.
That's about it this week! Life's been pretty good. It's really cool to see Heavenly Father's hand in everything we do. The word 'coincidence' is pretty much no longer in my vocabulary. I know that this is the Lord's work, and as long as we give it everything we have, He will allow us to be part of incredible miracles.
Love you lots!
Sister Hull
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