Feeling so cheery and bright today as we celebrate the birth of our Savior and the happiest day of the year! So happy to be here in Taiwan for another Christmas! Nothing like doing the work that I love most on my favorite day!
Christmas this year was nice and warm, and we felt so loved by out sweet members who spoiled us! Felt a little like we were home!
Well, I am so so happy to have been able to talk to my sweet family this morning! So grateful for eternal families and the joy of being together, even if just over Skype!
This week was pretty busy with Christmas activity after the next. We had performance after performance of mission concerts, firesides, English class spiritual shares, sacrament meeting musical numbers, and more! We have our missionary choir that we sang with and our district is also the little musical group of the century and sings together at everything! It is so fun. We definitely kept busy!
For the sake of time, I'll just share one of my biggest highlights of the week: our two grandmas- Ji jm and Zeng JM. I shared last week (maybe?) that they have become such good little friends, and this week ate lunch together, sat by each other at church, and best of all, picked a baptismal date! They picked January 6th to be baptized, and Zeng jm even asked Heavenly Father to help her have nice weather so she doesn't get a cold (79℉ to be specific haha ), so we are all praying for summer weather in January now! They are so dang cute and are so excited for their baptism. They have been telling everyone about it. It's cute to see them guanxin eachother and welcome each other into the ward. We are excited for them to be baptized in a couple of weeks!
I love this sweet season of giving. As I look back on each Christmas I have ever celebrated, the ones that stand out to me are the ones where I have really tried to reach out to others as Christ would have. I don't remember the presents I have received, or the food I ate, but the service I rendered and the love I expressed. That is the reason of the season I think. Grateful to have another day of serving and continuing to share the love of Christ with everyone! Love you all and merry Christmas!
So sorry for the shorter one this week, but I'll send some pics:)
xoxo
Sister Richards
李姐妹
Lǐ Jǐemeì
Taiwan Taipei Mission
4/F, #24, Lane 183
Jin Hua Street
Taipei, Taiwan 106
1-The original district- grown up (16 months later)
2- Our sweet grandma's
3- Bye bye sister cooper
4- My cute twin at our Christmas party
5- Love my sweet fan bam
6- My old comp zeng jm came up to visit.
Lunch, Taiwan style
Caroling and christmas brunch at the Jergensen's!
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