Monday, December 8, 2014

Stressed.

Haha okay well I need more prayers guys. ;) So I have my new missionary here in NanKan with me! Her name is Sister Cardon she is a doll I love her a lot shes got a lot of desire to do the work. She is 21 and already graduated from college she majored in Linguistics with a minor in Japanese. Unfortunately that won't help much here in Taoyuan more so in Taipei city. I am sure she will get a chance. While she was waiting for her visa she was serving in Georgia yes... I just spelled that wrong I think but I don't know how to spell it right. and you all know what I mean. but  yep she is now here in taiwan with me!!!! Her chinese is INCREDIBLE. I talk to her in complete Chinese so either her chinese really is that good or she is a really good actress and makes it seem like she understands. Super impressed with her! 
Funny story from our first night out on the streets I invited her to lead us that night for the hour we had of contacting. She looked super nervous at me but I wanted to push her so she could get used to contacting really fast and I had already spent a day leading it so I figured she was ready. Well I helped her get started by stopping a man then looked at her to talk she looked panicked back at me so I smiled and helped her out. After we finished the contact I laughed with her and asked why she froze up and all she needed to do was teach the gospel to which made me laugh even harder when she said "I FORGOT THE GOSPEL! " Haha it was adorable! So after we finished laughing we turned and saw a couple walking towards us I turned to her and said, "Okay your turn!" She said a nervous Ni Hao then let them walk past. I looked at her she looked back at me and shrugged her shoulders we continued to walk then all the sudden she collapsed on the ground! It scared me to death I though she had passed out! But she hopped up quick after and went to walk another step I had put my arm around her and she collapsed again! I forced her to sit down after her protesting that she was fine and we could keep going. After some intense pointing at a chair and a loud voice telling her to sit down she sat. Turns out that when she gets tired or nervous her left leg gives out and looses all strength to support her weight. She has had doctors test her before and there is nothing wrong at all just the way she is :) So lesson learned I need to go a little slower with her than what I originally was thinking. Which is TOTALLY fine she is so great and incredible she will get it down in no time. And this is how great she really is. Even after I did that to her she still loves me and will laugh with me about the whole thing! What a rockstar!!!!

Okay now about the Baptism we had!!!!! Lily and Liu Mama are baptized!!!!  It was such a beautiful night! They came dressed in some super asian china style dresses that were SO beautiful the pictures do not do justice as you can't tell the material and texture from it. And it all went really smooth only one time and good! 
This sunday was a really special sunday probably the buisiest sacrament meeting I have ever attended as we had FOUR confirmations THREE baby blessings and FOUR new missionaries bearing their testimony! IT was so incredible! Three of the four confirmations were ours and all three of the babies were from our recent converts children! IT was incredible. I was close to tears. I really love this area so much there are so many miracles the Lord is giving to us. 

Okay I need your help. We have two investigators right now that are really progressing towards baptism but they need more prayers. Qiu Ming Su and Zhang Jing Ping. They are both brethren. They are incredible. Brother Qiu is fighting to quit some WOW problems and Brother Zhang just needs a confirmation its true. Thank you for your help from the other side (of the world) we really can feel it. 

Next story. This is before the new missionaries came Sister Miller and I were studing at our desks when suddenly we heard a humming bird in our apartment. We looked around to see where it was coming from and it scared us to death when we saw not a cute harmless bird but a HUGE GIANT hornet!!!!!!! It was terrifying and took us a good hour to kill with the assistants from our gaurds downstairs! 

Uhm... yep I think thats all. I love you all have a good week! 

-Sister Thornley 


Sister Cardon eating lunch
 Okay no judging. For some reason ALL baptismal pictures are really terrible.






With four sisters in our TINY apartment this is what we are living in now...............
dont worry today is pday it will get better
a good ol picture of Sister Millers BEAUTIFUL face!

 Okay rest at peace in knowing these are NOT my legs. They are Sister MIllers. Look close. she hasn't shaved her legs the entire time she has been a missionary. 
dont worry I shave all the time!




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