HAPPY NEW YEAR!

HELLO EVERYBODY!!!(:

 

I am doing really good this week. and ya, i don't know what it is... but during the day here it is really nice. almost like california... oh but when the sun goes down it is terrifying!!! it is sooo cold, so basically we have to take our big coats out... i just put it in my box i have on the back of the bike and then we bundle up at night (:

 

we are doing really good (: the week... well, this week it was a really fast one, and a kinds hard one... there were 4 days off of work and school for everyone... and that means that no one is here because they all are traveling... or going home to where they are from.... so it was a really hard week. but it was really good, we got to see a lot of really cool miracles, like last night we got to meet with our 11 year old investigator! he is so cool! haha, and his family of course... his mom is from vietnam but her chinese is really good, and his dad is taiwanese, they had us over for dinner and the mom, sister wu cooked us some delivious vietnamese food!!! it was delicious, especially because it was fast sunday. yumm!! we were so full afterward... ahha (: and anyway.. his name is brother lin... and he set a baptismal date for february 7th and we get to meet with him twice a week and he is going to come to church and english class, he is so great. haha

 

 

so ya, like i said... everybody was gone for new years, so lessons were the lowest that i have ever had it... but we got to meet so many cool people and this week we got to give out 7 book of mormons!! it was amazing, we had a couple future missionaries come out with us for 30 minutes before they went and saw the hobbit #3 and  they are so cute! we saw o many awesome miracles just in that short time, one of them is hoping to get hers sometime within the next few weeks... (her mission call) she is 19 just like me! and the other is 18 and is going to college, but was at home for the holiday... and she decided she is going to go on a mission too! we are so proud of them (:

 

anyway! let me tell you about one of the guys we gave a book of mormon too... this experience... tho small was really miraculous. we were walking along... just trying to talk to everybody because there was nobody. haha, and this guy gets off his bike at this store and helps his little girl down... who is this little sweetheart... i just give her a flyer to come to english class and then we get talking with the dad.... turns out they are also christian... and at the beginning he was like, i have my own chruch... and was not really open to really anything... but as the spirit softened his heart... by the end he was thanking us for giving him the book of mormon... he said a prayer for us and there was an actual change in his countenance. it was amazing, it was almost like the whole world just shifted in that amount of time, and i don't know what it was... but the spirit did, and it wasn't anything that i said or did..... but it was heavenly father, reaching out to his child.. and i just so happened to be there. wow.

 

and anyway. as much as the taiwanese say they don't celebrate it. they do celebrate our new year. everyone was saying how boring it was that were stuck here in zhunan where it was so boring, but really its all good haha, i am just super exited for guonian! (that is the chinese new year) in the middle of february... and it is going to be amazing, ooohhhh ya,

 

oh, random! heard that our LA went to ShangHai (in china) to see the fireworks and everything for the new year.... but she said it was not fun at all! she said she was actually really scared... ended up that like a lot of people died from being trampled! she said that is just how it is in china... people will push you and crowd you. it is really intense, also noticed the taiwanese are always ready to say a joke about china... or something, not that that is important. or anything... ya. anyway....

we met with a member this week... sister weng. she is so great. one thing that really hit me... was that she said that sometimes when she prays... she imagines that our Heavenly Father is just sitting there... maybe on a bench or something that that He just says... I know... why don't you just come down and sit by Me for a little bit. and so she does. and she just feels peace and happiness, then she counsels with Him for a bit, and that is her prayer. How beautiful is that? I am going to try that!

 

oh and this week we studied about desire... in district meetings and my personal studies, and how the Lord really does grant unto us everything according to our desires... to eternal life... or to not eternal life.... to like forever unhappiness,.... and that is just and merciful. but it we really do want eternal life... then lets do the things that will get us there. if we really do want it... lets make it a priority. and that is how i have seen it here talking to people, God respects our agency so much. and while we want everyone to accept the gospel, not everyone will sadly. and it is also really frustrating, but as i have come to understand it... i think it has helped me to understand the whole process, and purpose of missionary work.

 

we are sent to find the prepared.

 

ya so i have been reading in alma 26-33 such  great missionary examples (: love it  (:

 

LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!! (:(:

 

Invite: make some sweet new years resolutions. and then do them (:

 

love, sister walker

 this morning.... the view... i call it flaming sun...

also im an angel!! (us doing service at a catholic place) 

 selfie with a sweet statue and temple. ya. (:

i ate another squid or octopus... not sure! ....its brains exploded. just thought you would all like to see!! (:

ummer summerrr gunnesss, don't even know, but sister anderson and i laughed so hard. ha

flaming sun (view from the apartment)