太夸张

 you know you're an old missionary when you have departing interviews with the president in three days and your departure plans tell you that you have to get on a plane leaving the country next saturday...so if anyone is planning on sending any letters or packages to taiwan, it might be best if you DONT. i wont be here to receive it.

 as for this past week, we lost a couple of our baptismal date investigators BUT because of sister kim and i, our goal of talking to literally EVERY SINGLE PERSON WE SEE, we were able to build up our investigator pool AND meet some really awesome people. i wrote all about this week's adventures and misfortunes in my journal but i'm using a kindle fire tablet to write emails this week and typing takes a while so maybe i'll just publish a book when i get home so that you all can read about my time here in taiwan.

 ￥~古姐妹 sister goo

WEEKLY UPDATE--Have you ever replaced suitcase wheels?

 While moving from Bade to Yuli the wheels on both of my suitcases melted so now it doesn't roll. you just have to pull or drag it to move it. Wheels on suitcase are of the utmost importance, but how do you replace the wheels if you live in a small town where the closest thing to a place like Wal-Mart is a 7-11? (7-11 only sells wheels for toy cars) You just fix it yourself. I took the wheels off of my rolling chair and replaced the melted wheels with those...I know, supper ghetto, but hey, let me tell you, you learn A LOT of things on the mission. You just gotta make do with what you have, you know? Other than starting to organize my things, this week I found out that a part member family that I taught in Bade got baptized, I went on my last exchange with out Sister Training Leaders, opened up a korean language class, an origami class, an facial diagnosis class and a drawing class. We found 8 new investigators, had 4 families at church, set new baptismal dates, met ALL of our key indicators and helped get 3 Less-actives back to church! Our secret weapon? The SPIRIT! Crazy stuff...."A luminous being the spirit is...." Missions are AWESOME!! Missions are forever!

> Sister Goo

WEEKLY UPDATE--I'm dying!

Do you know what happens after being in Taiwan for 19 months?( Yes, 19, not 18.) Your mission President tells you to pack your bags and go home. Thanks President....

It has been such a blessing to be able to serve the people here in Taiwan. These past months have been TOO AMAZING. I have learned SO MUCH (my brain is going to pop) and have grown in more ways than I can even think (the numbers on the scale prove it...haha)  and I have never been happier!!! Words can not express how incredible serving a mission has been. I LOVE TAIWAN! I LOVE THE 台灣人! I have absolutely LOVED my mission and as sad as I am to say goodbye, I am also very excited to return home! I am grateful for all the love and support received  from each and everyone of you. This mission, my mission has blessed my life and i know that it will continue to bless my life and the lives of my family and those around me from. 

"And if it so be that you should labor all your days in crying repentance unto this people, and bring, save it be one soul unto me, how great shall be your joy with him in the kingdom of my Father! And now, if your joy will be great with one soul that you have brought unto me into the kingdom of my Father, how great will be your joy if you should bring many souls unto me!" (D&C 18:15-16)

It has been quite an adventure....and even that is an understatement...haha. For those who are considering the decision of a mission, my only advice for you is GO! SERVE A MISSION AND YOU WON'T REGRET IT! 

Mahalo! A Hui Hou! Sayonara! Aloha O'e! 

-Sister Goo

Just an FYI if you have a difficult time putting two and two together. This is the last email that you will get from this account. 

Last PDAY with these KOOKS!

Week 5...

Just want to say, CONGRATS TO MY BROTHER FOR GETTING HIS CALL! I'm a little jealous that you only had to wait a week for it. But Salt Lake City South Mission is going to be LIT!! You're GOING TO KILL IT!! Reporting on August 9th, I'll be home for your farewell talk! 🤘😂

Can I tell you all about this week, next week? We have to go to the post office before it closes. I Love you all!

-Sister Goo.

 P.s. If you happened to look at the pictures, yes, my hair is gone. Sister Wong chopped.

Last Transfer!

This week was hectic. It was SO GOOD! Stake Conference, Exchanges, Interviews with President, Transfers! Sister Cheng left for the MTC, Sister Wong and Sister Lee went home. I got a new Companion. Sister Kim. She is THE COOLEST person EVER! Born in Utah, Raised in Korea, Grew up in Thailand. Loves to chill and eat good food. I'm stoked to be able to spend my LAST TRANSFER with her as my companion. I'm still in Yuli, The most BEAUTIFUL PLACE EVER! And I do not plan on wasting a single moment!  I am so excited for this new transfer! Big things are going to happen and we are going to make sure they do! We are also going to baptize someone in a waterfall. The "Mormon Waterfall" that's what the people here call it. It's gonna be SICk! 
Well, I'm alive and THRIVING! 🤘Talk to you all next week!

-Sister Goo

WEEKLY UPDATE-- I suppose it is time.

  6:19:59 PM HST

Time to write an email about my week. First thing's first. I feel like they should change the way they do the Earthquake drills in elementary schools. The reason I bring this up being, this past tuesday morning we had an earthquake. It was not that violent but it was big enough to shake up my companion real well. While our apartment was shaking and things were falling she came running out of our room and shouted, "What do we do?! Do we get under the desks?!" All i could say was, "Welcome to Taiwan!"🤗 Sister Watson is a sweetheart. I love her a lot.

Fun things about being in YuLi, we teach english class twice a week in two different towns. Tuesday Nights in RuiSui, Wednesday nights in YuLi and hopefully Saturday afternoons in ChiShang (we are looking to open up a third class). 

We had exchanges this week. Took an hour train ride to HuaLian city and spent the day as Sister Austad's companion. During an exchange we met; a extremely hyperactive dog named honey who could not, for the life of her, stand still for 2 seconds, grace, a Taiwanese lady who grew up in Vietnam and then moved to America for school and now is back in Taiwan because God told her to come here. She is a very devout Buddhist and Jehova's Witness. We walked into a McDonalds to find that the first and second floor (except for one table) was reserved for a group of high schooler's on their "Graduation trip". I don't know why you would go to McDonald's to celebrate graduation...anyway, at this McDonald's we met  El Jose Maria this dude from Spain who spoke un poco de inglés so we tried talking to him using the best high school spanish that we could remember. We asked him "¿qué estás haciendo aquí?" (What are you doing here?) El Jose Maria said, "El Jose is free man. Alone boy, alone girl, NO PROBLEM! Go and see beautiful, No problem." 😂Gracias, El Jose!

The GREATEST thing about this week was that we were able to take a 5 hour train ride to Taipei to attend MISSION CONFERENCE! WOOT! Every missionary in our mission was in attendance. Why the special Mission Confernce? Well, Elder Quentin L. Cook,Elder Ulisses Soares,  Randy D. Funk, and a few others really amazing leaders of our church came to share a message. It was the most powerful meeting I have ever attended. I wrote a lot about what was said in my journal so when I get home (In 9 weeks....😱😱) I can tell you all about it. 

Well, don't want to bore you all with my words. Shout out to my friends who have officialy finished their time in the MTC and are now heading into the FIELD!! 🤘I LOVE YOU! 

-Sister GOo

Sister Watson

New companion in Yuli.