Hello my dear friends and fam bam,
Sister Micah Richards
This week was a great one full of miracles and lots of laughs, but the highlight was definitely our sweet Minnie/ Xu Nuo Jia getting baptized! It was such a beautiful service full of the spirit! Xu Mei mei is a 10 year old in a part member family! Her aunt and uncle and grandma are members, her brother got baptized last year, and now we were able to help her be baptized this week! So special. She is the cutest little girl but so stubbornly quiet. ha If she doesn't know you, she will not talk to you. We have loved getting to know her more and more over the past month and she has become like a little sister to us! So dang cute. Best thing though was that she prepared her own talk for her baptism! No one told her to, she just picked her favorite scripture and wrote a talk about it sharing her testimony! Granted, when it got down to sharing it, she stood at the podium silently for 5 minutes before her grandma had to help her read it, haha but it is the thought that counts!!
This week was full of fun things from interviews, to exchanges, to lots of great meetings with investigators and lots of little miracles. (*SIDE NOTE: I ate the 1000 year old egg this week... I just need to let that be known.. honestly not as bad as you would think. alright thanks) We saw some great progression with investigators this week and some sadder things with others. Our dear An Tong passed her baptismal interview on Sunday, so she will be getting baptized this coming Friday! We are so excited about that! Yang Jm is killing it and is so ready to be baptized as soon as we finish teaching her. Unfortunately, He JM is really feeling the heat of her husband not wanting her to be baptized. As a result of this, she is much more hesitant to come to church and take the necessary steps to be baptized... We are praying hard for her to have the courage and faith to move forward.
Missions are truly about the small and simple things. Taking joy in the small things, putting forth just a little more effort to help investigators, doing the seemingly simple things to keep up obedience, and following the small and quiet promptings of the spirit to do the work that we have been called to do. Alma's words really have never rang truer for me. "by small and simple things are great things brought to pass." (Alma 37:6-7)
This week was a big one of reflection for me. We received some great trainings, and it really gave me the chance to think of my own personal conversion, faith, and evaluate how I am doing, and who I am becoming. One of my spiritual highlights this week was studying a talk called "Becoming a Sacred Missionary" by David J. Bullock. He was a mission president in England at the time, and wrote a talk about three different kinds of missionaries: social, honorable, and sacred. He highlighted on some main points of missionary work and wrote about what each of these different kinds of missionaries would do in each of these situations. things like motives, obedience, studies, teaching, work ethic, scheduling, planning, p day, dinner appointments, music, etc. He even went as far as to talk about how your work as a missionary would effect you for the rest of your life! It is a way good talk, and made me think about the kind of missionary I am and strive to be. I think we are all striving to be a "sacred" missionary. But what are the areas that we fall a little short? Where do we fit more into the honorable missionary or even social missionary category? I would invite all of you to read this talk. Not matter if you are a missionary or not. It is definitely worth the read.
And to my friends on missions, GO READ IT. It is awesome and gave me so much direction to know how I want to continue forward as a missionary!
Well my dear friends and fam, I love you all. Missionary work is the best and the hardest, and I wouldn't want to be anywhere else. Have the best week!
xoxo
Sister Richards
李姐妹
Lǐ Jǐemeì
Taiwan Taipei Mission
4/F, #24, Lane 183
Jin Hua Street
Taipei, Taiwan 106
1- sweet comp and our sweet biking lives hah
2- besties
3- homies in zhongli
Exchanges with Sister Cullen (trainer)
Buddhist temple
Baby homies
Minnie's baptism!
No comments:
Post a Comment