What a crazy busy week! This week our focus was on contacting Less
Active members, we tried to visit/call 15 from 3 different cities. It's
been a learning experience meeting and trying to understand their
stories because every one of them are different. We received different
answers of being hung up on, no answer, welcomed us in but didn't want
us to come back, to people welcoming us back. I'm really excited to
better meet them and help them feel God's love for them.
Some highlights from this week
~Pday! We played games with our Elders and we used Andes mints for
"tokens". It was hilarious! (There will be a picture coming soon) It's
been a little bit of a change going from 10 missionaries in my district
in Bitan to only the 4 of us on Yilan. I'm grateful I've gotten to serve
around these amazing missionaries!
~ In the past two weeks we have received two referrals from a family and
they are amazing! They both have genuine interest in learning what kind
of relationship they can have with God. They both ask amazing
questions! It's also been really funny getting to know these members
too! I've been really blessed having amazing members in both of my areas
so far!
~ Friday was Dragon Boat Festival!!! Sadly we didn't get see any of the
races but we got eat a traditional food they only eat around this time,
it's called a 粽子. Its sticky rice with meat, mushrooms, sometimes eggs
all wrapped up in bamboo leaves. They have to sit for a really long
time, but are super yummy!!!
~ Saturday was an adventure for us! We played basketball in the morning
with our friend Jason and the Elders. We taught English Class that
afternoon which was fun! Afterwards we learned it was Florence's
birthday (a family we use to teach) they asked if us and the Elders
wanted to eat cake with them. What we thought would be a half an hour
turned into them driving us to a bakery and than a lake. It was
unexpected but really helped our relationship with them grow!
Something I've been studying and focusing on a lot these past couple of
weeks is Charity and Love. If I'm being honest when I first came on my
mission I didn't know how I was going to develop love for people I never
met before. But now I have a lot of love for the people of Taiwan and
it keeps growing everyday! It's not always easy because we get rejected a
lot, or we realize people only talk to us because we are American. But
we talk to them anyways! I love being a missionary and I love having the
opportunity to meet so many amazing people!
我愛你們!
Love, Sister Porter
包心穎姐妹
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