Sorry, I am going in about 10 or 15 minutes. I will try to email later today. Right now I am in Taipei. In about 30 minutes I will be having lunch with my long lost cousin, Brett. He's working at the Taipei American School. I was able to get a hold of him and we are eating lunch together with another sister companionship (mission rules- can't have a sister companionship eating or being alone with another guy). Haven't seen cousin Brett in eight years or so, so excited to see how it goes.
Things that happened this week:
Transfers - FINALLY after three weeks of being in a trio, I finally have a companion! so my new companion is Sister Zhong, she is Taiwanese. She is one of the Ba De sisters, my first area. The area has been struggling for a while so President took out the sisters and will close it for a while, since not a lot of baptisms are going on there. I have to be honest, it was a hard area for me as well. It probably needs a break so God can prepare more people for the sisters to teach in the future. I will finish my mission here in the promised land of Taoyuan, yay!
Yesterday, Elder Peter F. Meurs of the 70 visited us at church. He spoke in Oct. 2016 conference about the sacrament. Our building has four wards, so he attended and spoke at every one of them. He is so cool! He is from Australia, so it was harder for a brother in our ward to translate since he is used to American accents.
Before he spoke, the new stake president (i think) spoke and had us missionaries stand up for our ward to see. It was so cool, he encouraged the members to work more with us. Elder Meurs pretty much spoke about having hope and happiness, because God wants us to succeed. We just need to ask his help. It was so cool, he pretty much addressed the needs of the ward. He didn't prepare a talk, just went along with the Spirit, and it was exactly what the ward and I needed to hear.
After sacrament, we sat down with the bishop's wife and talked about friends and family to share the gospel with. She is a cute younger mom, two kids 12 and 9. After talking about them, writing down their names, we encouraged her to do what we are doing called a 21-day prayer miracles - write down names of people and pray that they would receive the gospel.
Sorry gotta go, love you all!
-Sister Brinkerhoff
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