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Hi everyone! 

We had a really cool fasting miracle yesterday. Our District Leader asked us to fast for ways to work with the ward. That very night, we had a family history themed activity at a member's house, and he invited some friends, a family of five! They really liked talking about family history, and agreed to let us come to their house some other time to help them set up a FamilySearch account. All the ward members were really excited to share about the gospel with them, and it was amazing. I don't think I've ever seen blessings come from fasting so quickly.

We have a rat in our ceiling. We've never seen him, he just skitters across every now and then in the evening. I've taken to calling him Geronimo.

The other day we were on our way to a 7-11 to make some calls. We had a bit of extra time before we had to be there, so we decided to swing into a Starbucks and see if we could talk to some people. The Taiwanese take Starbucks seriously. Most Starbucks here are architectural masterpieces. The one in question has a full second floor with an assortment of couches, armchairs, and barstools arranged in artful, comfortable clusters. We climbed the stairs to find that there were only two people in the entire room. Our choices were either a businessman on one end of the room, or a girl with earbuds in on the other side. We chose the girl, and walked over to talk. After chatting for a bit, she told us that she is actually a member who just hasn't been to church in a year or two. What was supposed to be a 7 minute chat ended up being almost an hour as she told us of the challenges she's facing and some of her reasons for leaving the church. We were able to listen and love her and offer our support. She's amazing! I know for a fact that Heavenly Father led us specifically to her. I felt His love for her so strongly, it was incredible.

This week was the Lantern Festival, and there were a lot of community parties with big light up stages and really loud music. The old people in Taiwan like to party more than the young people do I think. Taiwanese old people love a spectacle, so we got roped into going onto the stage and dancing more than once. At one of these parties, I was dressed as a strawberry, and Sister Hubner was dressed as a radish. The old people couldn't have been happier.

Have a great week! Love you all!

Sister Hull

 Pics:

1-2: Two of our dancing gigs. We're pretty much professional now.

3: we did an activity at a college asking people to write what makes them happy. The answers were really cute!

4: Last p-day our district went to Sun Moon Lake, and it was ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS