Sister Lydia Jensen-Taiwan, Taipei Mission: Week 34-Jan. 28, 2019

Elephant mountain! 🤸‍♀️

Hey friends and family!

This week was another awesome week in Songshan! Sister Hayden and I are going one more transfer together and I am so happy about that!

Today we went hiking up elephant mountain and got to look out over the beautiful city of Taipei! It reminded me just how many people live it our area~its insane! Its probably one of the most dense areas in the mission! Unlimited possibilities and precious souls to find every day! Some things I love about Taiwan that I was reminded of this week are: super nice people that give you free stuff for saying hi!, the trash trucks that draw the whole neighborhood out of their houses and sound like ice cream trucks and make you sort everything, tons of massage shops and drink shops on every street, delicious fruit, generous members, buses that pass inches from your bike like huge whales, breakfast shops on every corner, old people exercising and slapping themselves in the parks, Costco food=sushi and salad, fires and fruit in front of every house on special Buddhist/baibai days and more! Taiwan is so great, I love it so much.

This week we got to sing at the Stake young women's new beginnings event and it was such a special throw back to our years in young women's doing personal progress, earning ribbons, etc. What a beautiful, universal program. We also got to do a spiritual share at a ward Relief Society chicken soup making activity which went super well! They enjoyed our little game and then we applied it to ministering and helping others and ourselves find peace.

Prayers are answered! story: English class is always a gamble of who and how many people will show up and if our peike (member present) will show up, etc. But this week before English class (because last week wasnt so great) I said a prayer in my heart that we would have at least 4 people show up, and we had like 10! And almost all of them were new! and my peike was awesome and participated the whole time! The spiritual share went super well and a new friend shook my hand and thanked me for the lesson at the end! Miracles!

Scripture of the week:

Mormon 9:19 Short and Sweet:

"And if there were miracles wrought then, why has God ceased to be a God of miracles and yet be an unchangeable Being? And behold, I say unto you he changeth not; if so he would cease to be God; and he ceaseth not to be God, and is a God of miracles."

Look for a miracle or two in your lives this week!