This Month I Will Be In Tawain!

Well Everyone, as the subject says, this month I will be in Taiwan joining the two CUTEST missionaries there ever were! Sister Funk and Sister Bell!!! Just... ill be in a different place of the mission. I miss you two both tons :( COME BACKK!!! But yep so I only have 3 weeks more to go and I honestly... am scared out of my mind now. But I know the Lord will bless and help me out with the rest of this. Alright, so onto the details. 

This week was sweet cause it was my first week of my new assignment. But it was way fun cause I got to talk to all the sister senior companions and really get to know them better. It is crazy what a sincere prayer will do because honestly I have never felt more love for them than now. I am so grateful for the blessings he has given me and allowed me to recieve. Its weird. ITs not just cause I am a missionary that I am getting these blessings its because I am now asking for them. SO.. hint hint for everyone out there. You can get them to, just pray literally ALL the time. ;) Yesterday was fast sunday, which should be rough cause we basically sit and study all day but everyone agrees the fasts here are a ton easier than back home. God strengthens us in all things. So yesterday was also mission conference. Which was super cool! I wish you all could experience those. But they have really good speakers and awesome spirits. Mom, this is for you, there was an analogy I think you would like, we are all like crockpots. And if we dont properly take care of them we will aquire lots of rust. Now at times we will all aquire some, but we just need to put the effort into cleaning them back up and seasoned again. So now you all relate that to faith and religious stuff cause I can't type that fast. 

Okay... OH! So the TRC skype was way fun! Its weird how much you can love someone over miles. But yep Sam is my new best friend. Sorry guys. Hes in Taiwan so he has better dibbs. But it was way funny cause no matter how we asked him he wouldn't speak Chinese to us even though the purpose of it was to help us practice with listening to Taiwanese. Anyway yeah he was rather impressed with his english so thats all he would speak so... we were stubborn back and only spoke Chinese. And the cool thing is, he understood us! So, yep i think its safe to say I have now progressed to the level of a toddler in chinese! Whats up?! 

Also, yesterday being fast sunday and all it was testimony meeting. Well we had a surprise visitor in our branch and the PRESIDENT OF THE MTC sat with us!!!! I have never been so glad we have to speak in Chinese up there! HAHA it was fun :) Also, everyone. I know my letters are pretty funny, or at least I think they are, but I want you all to know. I am learning so much here! And really am feeling the spirit so much. I am not the same person. May I encourage you all to really pay attention to the promptings of the spirit. because it will be in ways you are not expecting. I know this from personal witness. But if you will heed them, no matter how strange they may seem you will progress in ways you never thought possible. 

OOH!!! My district has upgraded! We no longer use forks and spoons or knifes! Our teacher brought us all chopsticks to use! Haha yes, we are the dorks eating our pizza with chopsticks. Also, my companion has decided she will have nothing to do with the rule of no watter play. As we were cleaning the showers I had foamed one and she went into scrub and suddenly a huge bang! HAHA I tried so hard not to laugh at her as she slid across the floor. But hey no one is perfect and the good news is she didn't hit her head so we are all good! Seriously though, SO FUNNY! Another funny moment, we were doing another demo in class and we sometimes watch short clips to take on an investigator well, one of them is entitled, "Patrick, the boat dweller" So anyway the investigator was patrick. And so we were getting to know him as all missionaries should and so naturally we asked what he likes to do, now imagine if you will, a stalwart mexican missionary sitting erect in a chair and slowly says, "I like... to ride.. my boat?" Well, needless to say we were all laughing really hard. But it ended up being a good lesson anyway so yep thats all ive got for funny this week sorry. 

Cool thing though! For those who have been into the temple. Have you ever closely looked at the crystal chandeliers in them? Well not to gloat or anything but today I spent three hours disassembling a chandelier in a sealing room cleaning each tiny piece of crystal and then reassembling it. It really was THE coolest thing ever. Go to the temple and look closely at it then ask a worker how they are cleaned so you can fully appreciate it. It is awesome! 

Well, that is basically all, I appologize it was kind of a lame letter this week I'll take notes for next week till then, love you all!

-Sister Thornley


**** Amber Kunzler***
Did you get my letter this week? I hope that it made it into the mail but I am not 100% sure and I will write you again if it did not.