Christmas Cheer! 🎄❤🎄
Family and friends!!!
This week has been so crazy! We biked to Neihu to teach a new friend and she's awesome! We had to rush back for English class though and we got lost or stuck a couple times. :P Saturday was super different too because my bike had a super flat tire so we had to walk it to the bike shop in the morning, then ride the MRT to another city for our Christmas choir performance at a huge elementary school. It was super fun because the Taipei English ward put on a huge nativity with lights and a lift for the angels and a real horse and amazing costumes! They performed right after we sang our little program. Sis Larsen and I sang a beautiful song called Candlelight Carol and one of the families that comes to Sis. Larsen's English class came! They have two ADORABLE kids and my highlight of the week was when we were walking back to the bus and Andrew (6) yelled from across the street "Merry Christmas, Sister Larsen!" So cute!
Another highlight of this week was last night when we got to go to a member's home (3 kids) and meet her friend and her two kids and decorate a little Christmas tree together, sing some hymns, and act out the nativity! Despite the crazy kids running around everywhere and the random screams and rabbit and chaos, the spirit of Christmas was so tangible. 
Also, because Sister Larsen is leaving, we got to eat lunch with a member today and it was so touching to hear her tell her conversion story and how she met missionaries. Because the majority of members here are converts, they treat us missionaries so well and always express so much gratitude for the very small things we do. I felt a lot of hope when she started to tell us a problem she's been having recently, but realized the answer just as she finished telling us! We didn't even have to say anything! She just thanked us for bringing the Spirit that answered her question. Thank goodness this is the Lord's work, because heaven knows I couldn't do this on my own!
Scripture of the week: Alma 20:26
"And when he saw that Ammon had no desire to destroy him, and when he also saw the great love he had for his son Lamoni, he was astonished exceedingly, and said: Because this is all that thou hast desired, that I would release thy brethren, and suffer that my son Lamoni should retain his kingdom, behold, I will grant unto you that my son may retain his kingdom from this time and forever; and I will govern him no more." I think it's amazing how much power love has to change people's hearts as it did to King Lamoni's father's in the Book of Mormon. As we show genuine love for others in word and in deed, it truly makes all the difference! Keep lighting the world and choose someone who might be harder to love this week and do something for them with sincere, Christlike love in your heart! God loves you! Go share that love!
Sending love, hugs, and prayers your way!
Sister Jensen
1. Sis Larsen and our advent calendar from the YW
2 The adorable tree Mom sent!!!
3 Santa hats
6/7 Christmas performance! and Andrew!
8. Huang family
9/10. Liu family and friends
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