Soarin, Flyin, There's not a star in heaven that we can't reach 🎵

I couldn't think of an email title so therefore I did the first random think that popped in my head, as one does. 

Hello goodly people of my email list! I hope you are all doing amazing! My week was pretty good :) I had a little kid ask me if I'm an alien...that's nice haha.

Monday, we went to a Buddhist temple which was cool! Tuesday, we had two member lessons and the power went at the church in one of them which was fun! It turned back on pretty fast, don't worry haha. We also had an on-the-spot tour which was good, and a lesson with one of our friends that night! 

Wednesday not too much happened, we had ECG which was good! We learned about fruits :) Thursday we had exchanges! I was with Sister Bailey in Jinhua for the day. We were kept busy and had a couple of lessons and an on-the-spot temple tour which was good. It was fun! Unfortunately, because of all of the lessons and tours we didn't have lots of time for other things and didn't have a lot of time for our evaluation, but I hope she still got something from it!

Not too much happened Friday! We had weekly planning, and we also went street contacting at Daan park for a sec which was good!

Saturday, we had a temple tour with a member who is preparing for her endowment which was good! After that we went to go meet with a less active member, who told us when we got there that his female friend couldn't come (we have a rule where we need a third female with us whenever we are with men) and then it turns out he wasn't even our member...the whole thing was pretty awkward. We shared a scripture and got out of there pretty fast. At least it was in public haha! Later we had a drop lesson with a friend which was sad. She just wasn't willing to progress and straight up told us she doesn't want to/need to improve as a person. It was really sad, and my poor companion was really sad about it. It is sad because we know how much this could help somebody's life and they still choose not to. But the Lord loves His children, He will give them more opportunities to feel His love! 

Sunday, we had so many miracles! We met with one of our friends and got to see her baby and before we had invited her to think about a new baptismal date (she already has one set for March but we knew she forgot it so we were hoping we could get it sooner) and she told us she is thinking the end of January!! Yay!! That is at the same time as Chinese New Year so we're not really sure what's gonna happen with that but it's progress! One of our other friends has health problems and I've never actually met her in person before, but she came to church yesterday!!! Yay! And then we had two potentials who we had just met come to an FHE activity! Blessings, the Lord is aware of His children! We can trust that He is aware of our efforts, whether or not we see results from it. Maybe He's trying to shape us instead :)

Spiritual thought for the week: Everyone go watch the young adult devotional by Elder Holland, it's so good! I love that Elder Holland talks about the importance of being cheerful throughout challenging times. He brought up the Savior, and how His ability to remain cheerful as He volunteered to take on more pain than we can imagine deserves our reverence. He did it, and He provides a way for us to do it too. Trust that no spiritual blessing is withheld from the righteous, and the Lord will never deny you blessings for something that is out of your control. 

I love you all and hope you have a great week! 新年快樂！-江柔安姐妹