WE RUN ON SUGAR AND THE SPIRIT

ok everyone!!!!! hope your week was good, because mine was fantastic!!!! so good to hear from all of you too! ok, so hear are the top things that happened this past week (:

1. it finally happened. we were passing out flyers for our free english class that we teach on wednesday nights and well, this teenage girl came up and was like can i get a picture with you two? and i was like totally, only if you come to english class, she just laughed but i was serious. haha (: it was a party haha, she was from taibei, but i was like we have english classes there too! haha(:

2. sister george and i were at this night market and then all of a sudden she got really excited and bought me and her these things on a stick. she said it was really good, we took a bite and well, it was not what she thought it was...haha! she thoguht it was candied strawberries, but it ended up being candied tomatoes haha!!!!! it was weird. and well, we learned that we should probably start asking what things are from now on (: haha!

3. For all of you who have seen saratov approach... you know how when they are teaching english class.... well we were teaching about opposites this past week and one of our students asked what the opposite of good looking was, were were just like umm, hjmmm, well its just ugly. haha, english class is so funny. they ask some really funny questions and they are all so excited and nervous to speak english to us, it makes me feel good to say that it is hard and learning chinese is hard, so we help each other (:(: it is like half chinese, half english... chinglish (:

4. went to the night market for dinner one night and got this authentic chicken curry thing... it was like a burrito! and an indian man made it so it was authentic (: hahah and we just talked with him for like ever! about religion and God, he is a sikh and it was so cool, and we got to share what we believed and he just keeped saying what a good thing we were doing, and while i don't need to hear that from him, it was still good to hear that other respect and admire what i am doing here. support really helps so much from everyone. but even if i didn't have it, i would be here (: God helps me everyday (:(:
5. i was mistaken for a taiwanese person. and that was totally cool. i was standing in the sun and they couldn't really see me and i was speaking chinese... haha they asked me if i was and i was like no way im american and we just laughed, that was funny!

6. This week we found out that two missionaries from our mission passed away. I also found out that a fellow classmate Caitlyn passed away too. While it is so sad and it really shocked me. I am so gateful for the knowledge that we have about the plan that Heavenly Father has for his children. We know where we are going after we die, we know that there is a purpose to all things, that everything unfair is swallowed up in the atonement of Jesus Christ and that all will be made right. They have been called for another work in the spirit world, especially those two missionaries, they never left their mission. just continuing it in another place. While we can still mourn for those we have lost, let us take this opportunity to share with everyone we know about the wonderful plan of happiness and the joy and peace we can feel from our Savior. i love teaching the plan of salvation and what makes it better is that it isn't just some made up fairy tale. it is real and we have evidence. in the book of mormon (:(:(:

7. OK one last thing, we have a new golden investigator!!! we met her at church. like seriously. she came to church because she got a flyer from somewhere and one of the sisters in the branch came and got us out of sunday school and was like look who i found and so we talked with her a bit and she stayed for the rest of the church time and got to come to sacrament meeting! she is so sweet and awesome! she is in her early twenties and wow, golden we are going to meet with her soon and give her a lesson one!!! yayyyy!!!!!!

8. Read this liahona all about the Book of Mormon. my favorite part i wanted to share with everyone is about Moroni's promise found in chapter 10:3-5 This is what we must do to find out if the book of mormon is true. 1. read it. 2. think about it. 3. pray diligently. 4. ask the right questions. 5. don't miss the answer.

Such a good hard week, we were stressed, busy, sweaty and totally exhausted! yay! lets do it again! talk to yall next week (:

love, Sister Walker!!!!!

1. look at that sunburn! haha, first one that i have gotten so far, didn't hurt and it went away..... haha but had to get a picture of that too, also when i take my watch off, it is like super white, there is a totally huge difference! haha love it! my goal is to get it to be as intense as sister georges's someday! haha (:(:

2. this is Hualian, it is on the east coast and it is beautiful, the heat isn't bad at all befcause there is wind. love it! i am so blessed. i am seriously in the promised land right now.

3.This is the Taipei Temple...I know Sister Walker feels at home, because it looks just like the Boise Temple, minus the palm trees :)

4. this is the dragon that i drew!!! yyup, i am awesome haha, every single week we have a competition with the 8 other missionaries who teach english to see who can draw the best dragon, the winner gets a prize. lets just say this week we crushed the competition (: this is the first time sister george and i have won too! so it was exciting, it was even close (: haha, but last week these elders like made a dragon sculpture that breathed fire so lets just say that this competition is for real (:


Sister Walker and Sister George (companions)

We will find out where this is next week...no explano :)