Thornley: It's Happened

So when I first got here to yilan I had all of the missionaries telling me oh man you are going to go to the hospital soon every missionary who serves here gets super sick we all have to go. Its coming. And I was like yeah right ya weirdo's I will NEVER go to the hospital EVER!!!!!

SO this week was really good thankyou all for asking me about my area and how its going. It is going really good. i love it. I love this work so much. Its a lot of knocking and interesting change in how I have to view sucess. Before we could easily contact over 50 people in like a good 40 minutes. And then of them get new investigators galor. Not so anymore. Now we plan our days around where our less actives live because we need to plan trains and biking time to get out there and then do the searching there. It is a very different way for me. now because its so rural of a place we spend the 40 minutes biking to the less active and do not see one person on the street to contact the entire time! So we have made a new goal that as we go to find them we have to stop every 15 minutes and knock 5 doors along the way so we are still searching the entire way for who the Lord has prepared. This past week we found ourselves in a county called zhuang wei for our first time. IT was straight houses inbetween water filled rice filds for miles to see. And as we were biking out we realized... oh snap this address is going to be very hard to find because I think a cat must have done the road addresses here and just went whereever a little red light was because there is no structure to it at all so we got a little lost and knocked doors asking and teaching as we went and WE FOUND AN AMAZING BOY THAT WE ARE CALLING AGAIN TODAY PLEASE PLEASE PRAY FOR HIM TO LET US COME BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THen next thing ya know its freezing and grumpy and then wham! We are on the beach side!! haha Taiwan roads are so fun we see lots neat things we had no Idea we would see!

Well... oh yeah about the hospital. Yesterday after church I was washing dishes and slipped on the knife that I showed you all a few weeks ago... I was bleeding and stuff then I realized I needed to close the wound together so I would stop bleeding so much. I am so grateful for Sister O'Brien who got me a chair and then was so good to me as I passed out and went a little odd with my body p.s. You have the funniest dreams when you pass out. But then An amazing member of our ward came right over to help and got me to the hospital which is luckily only a 10 minute walk away from our house and was such a big help in translating and talking for me. I was stitched up just fine and given everything I need to heal up quick and neat and I am doing so great right now! My finger is in a white gauze bandage and I am doing great!!! Its a little sore and I need to be really careful here cause it cant get wet and it rains all the time here and we need to use our bikes but I know the Lord will help me and maybe it will be a week of sunshine here!

I am so grateful for the Lords love. This week has been great for me to really feel of the Lords love and know he is watching for me. I really know Heavenly Father lives. He loves his children and by doing this work we are able to bring them back to the knowledge of thier father! I love you all be safe and happy!!!

-Sister Thornley