Yaoqing-ception

This week was full of miracles and was crazy busy! It's probably going to only get busier from here haha. Also, I hit my one year this week. AHHHH SCARY. How did it happen so fast? On Monday we did nothing worth mentioning, but on Tuesday we met with our friend Huang Yi Shuo and also taught another potential which was good! Ah Huang Dixiong is so solid! His date is December 10th. 

Wednesday was a tad crazy cause we had MLC and then a choir practice (for the Christmas concert, we have them like twice a week now) right after, and then ECG (MIRACLE ALERT! We had 5 kids, and their families showed! We don't even know how some of them learned about it, but it was great, and we learned about farm animals and sang Old Macdonald, it was a vibe) and then a lesson that night with A Xiang right after and taught him the plan of Salvation! Needless to say, our studies have happened after hours a little too often this week :/ Also the other sisters surprised me with SnowBro for my One Year-iversary 

Thursday, we had to clean an apartment for a new Senior Couple coming in, and were kind of back and forth all day from that because we had lots of lessons. But the poor Xinan sisters ended up having to be there for 7.5 hours! 

Friday, we had a temple tour in English with the Miaoli Sisters! It was pretty good! I discovered that I somehow can't talk in English or Chinese haha, it was good! Then we had zone council and did a training activity about invitations which was fun :) And weekly planning of course 

Saturday morning, we had a lesson with our new friend Huang Jiemei and she's super solid! Yayyyyy. After that we had a Christmas concert practice (message me if you would like to hear one of the songs!) and then we helped set up for a ward activity where they would be watching The Testaments movie outside at temple square. We also had a big temple tour and I forgot a lot of words but it's all good! The activity went pretty well, and we had a pretty good turnout! 

Sunday, we had so many miracles! AXIANG BROUGHT A FRIEND TO CHURCH. HIS NAME IS AKAI AND HE IS SO SOLID. What champs! It's Jinhua's time! So yeah, we did a tour with them after church and then taught the Restoration!! So good. The church is true and it's amazing to see people begin to recognize it. One of my favorite things in the world is watching people say a prayer for the first time, knowing how much their Father wants to hear from them. It's incredible.

We also taught the bishop and his family, which was good! Then later we got a call from someone saying that there was someone at the church right then who wanted a tour (it's not an uncommon thing actually). So, we went over, and it turns out she actually was at the wrong place and was looking for the college across the street, and she had ended up sitting through our ward, a stake conference, and another ward. She was probably mega confused, but she liked it and we got her contact info! Fun times! Afterward we helped set up for a stake YSA activity, and the speaker for it was someone who was famous for shooting bows and arrows and other fighting things while on horseback. He demonstrated shooting for us which was really cool! It was a day full of miracles! We had to have another day of after-hours personal study though. I swear every time we sat down to start it something came up! Being a missionary is the best thing in the world. 

This week 2nd Nephi 4 was really standing out to me. I found a quote that relates to it by Kyle S. McKay that says, "The prophet Alma taught that we must both repent and be born again—born of God, changed in our hearts (see Alma 5:49). As we continually repent, the Lord will take away all our sins and He will take away that which naturally causes or allows sin in us. But, in the words of Enos, “Lord, how is it done?” (Enos 1:7). The answer is simple, yet profound and eternal. To those who have been healed from any condition, physical or spiritual, the Lord has declared, “Thy faith hath made thee whole” (see Mark 5:34; Enos 1:8)." I love how he mentions that which "naturally causes...sin in us." The Lord can not only redeem us from our sins but will change our hearts. Yes, we may have struggles, but we can show Him that we have the FAITH for Him to change us!!! He can replace our desires with better ones. He can remove the natural man within us. He can teach us a higher, holier way. His way.