Sister Lydia Jensen-Taiwan, Taipei Mission: Week 23-Nov. 12, 2018

On the warm side of perfect! ☀️

Hey fam and friends!

This week!!!

We had two awesome FHEs with part member families, Trainer Trainee Follow up meeting, Zone meeting, adorable primary program on Sunday, and we started a competition to pump up our ward to do missionary work before Christmas! It's called "Light Songshan" 光照松山 like (Light the World)! We gave them ideas for things to do to share the gospel (give a tract to a friend, invite someone to English class or church, share a scripture with a friend, take the missionaries with you when you minister, teach a lesson with the missionaries, invite a friend to a church activity, share some chocolate, etc ;) ) and rated each thing a certain number of points based on difficulty (chocolate is just 5 points ;) ) and the Relief society, elders quorum, and Youth/Primary will all compete to see who gets the most points! We will make homemade American cookies for the winners! ;) The leaders helped us out a lot with pushing it and helping get the members excited!

We also had dinner at the Young Mens Presidents house and we helped him make omelettes, pancakes, and grilled cheese sandwiches! It was a ton of fun and they live on the 12 floor so there was a GORGEOUS view of the city from their roof!

This preparation day we went to the Sun Yat-sen memorial hall and went shopping with another set of sisters after Christmas choir practice! So fun!

Funny story: One morning when we were getting ready to leave the apartment, it was my turn to pray and so there we were, standing by the door, and because it was Wednesday and English class, Sis Larsen had her pink ball in her hand and so as soon as I said Amen, she chucked the ball at my head and we both busted up laughing and couldn't stop until we started biking. It's the little things, ya know ;)

Joke of the week: What was the fruit that Adam and Eve ate in the garden of Eden? .......Mango! Because then God said, Man go!

Scripture of the week: D&C 36:6 "Look into me in every thought; doubt not, fear not." I'm trying an experiment this week: every time a negative thought comes into my head (for example, I'll never understand Chinese), I am going to try to change it to turn it positive and to the Savior, Jesus Christ (Through Christ's power, I can understand Chinese well enough to teach His people His gospel and bring them joy.) It's a simple thing, but it has already started helping a lot! If you find it hard to get through your days recently or have a lot of negative thoughts, I would encourage you to try this experiment with me this week!