yep that about explains it.
love you all have a good week!
okay no I am kidding. Lets start the update for you all. So this week I was not here in YiLan for much of it. I really really love this place with all my heart. But we had some cool meetings. In which we were trained on how to get back to the basics to improve our teaching skills and help people prepare for baptism. It was really good and led to a lot of personal reflection. The other fun parts of it was at the meeting I was called to translate! WHOOT WHOOT promotion! Okay acutally it was really humiliating and a nice reminder from Heavenly Father that I cant just pray for the gift of tongues I need to use all I have to improve my language ability. So I will begin to do better at that but it was still a cool experience speaking at the speed of light translating the english to chinese for those there who dodnt speak english.
The other fun part was I went on two exchanges this week. One I stayed here in LuoDOng and worked with a SIster Steed who is going home in two weeks. She is really amazing and a huge blessing came from it. My sweet little Sister Keung came back and said to me, "Wow Sister Thornley I really take you for granted. I am really glad to be back here with you." Melted my mommy heart. Haha I really love this girl so much its gonna kill me to separate from here. The second exchange I was blessed to go up to Taipei. And work with Sister Barden I learned so much. A lesson I learned that she taught me came from Jesus the Christ. He teaches that there is a unified disunity in the way Christ teaches. For instance with one blind man he literally touches him. Another commands him to form clay and another he spit to another his words alone. The principles are the same but the way he reaches them is different. And I saw whoa, yikes I talk to everybody the same. Whoops time to change it up and follow the spirit better to know when to tell others when to touch when to get to spit in their eye... okay no just kidding but yes :)
Then the greatest miracle of my life happened! I called our investigator Yan Jie Mie I called her sunday morning to check she was up and coming to church. She told me that last night was really hard and that she has a report she needs to do with her classmates at ten and that they got really mad at her when she told them she was going to go to church. I told her to stop pray and then read the book of mormon and THEN decide if she was going to come or not. As soon as we hung up my companion and I knelt in prayer praying that she would be touched by the spirit and make the decision to follow the commandments. We went to church and didnt see her there. I sat pondering and praying that she would be touched and that I could know what to do for her. If she didnt come this week she wouldnt make her baptismal date. My phone then rang. It was her. She said, "Sister Yao, I am downstairs. I dont know where to go." We ran downstairs and I hugged her so hard! SHE CAME!!!!!!!!!! and now she is going to be on track for her baptism next week. But still many obstacles to jump over I ask you all please be mindful of her. We are doing all we can to help her.
And oh! also we met a boy from germany who is now going to get baptized when he gets back. Your welcome berlin! ;) As my mission President says, " We help other missionary's we give referrals because we are a team. We are TEAM JESUS!" Love it :) Greatest mission ever! So so happy!!!
Love you all!
-Sister Thornley/Yao
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