WEEKLY UPDATE--Happy Birthday to all the October babies out there!!!

This week was so ridiculously strange. It was....it was.....just. So. GOOD!

 Last P-day we went to the chocolate factory. We ate chocolate, smelled chocolate, found a chocolate dinosaur. For those who want to know what the best chocolate in the world is, look up "KAKAWA" and watch his little movie... I think you all will find it highly amusing.

with Coach Wagner and Sis. Lisa Wagner 

 We were able to go out to lunch with some friends from back home, The Wagners. They lived just down the street from my house. Brother Wagner was my mother's professor in college. This world is pretty big, but it's crazy just how small it is. (Mom & Dad, the Wagners are flying back to Hawaii in November and a package from me is going with them :))

 We went on exchanges this week. The most exciting part was not the exchanges but getting to the area and coming back home. It took us about two hours to get there and almost 3 to get back home. We missed our trains. Our buses came late. and then we missed our bus. and then we got on the wrong bus and it took us somewhere we did not plan to go and we got a little lost....haha...BUT! I have an AWESOME companion and we just made the most of it until we FINALLY got home!

 Knocking around our area, you NEVER know what to expect. Here are a few door experiences that are worthy enough to be in my email today:
 - It's 8:45pm, We knocked on this door and it opened and in the door way stands a man with just his speedos on. He's got dark curly hair, super hairy legs and he just leans casually against his door frame as we talk to him for a good 5 minutes about Jesus Christ. He reminded me of Nacho Libre.

 - We knock on another door and slowly comes a kind of creepy looking old lady. We tried speaking Chinese to her, but she didnt understand....so we started speaking a little bit of Taiwanese....and she still didnt understand. She was just rambling on in gibberish about who knows what! so we tried to say goodbye and closed the door. But she opened the door, and she came out and started waving her arms at us( still rambling on in gibberish) We just kept saying, "xie xie! Wan an! Thank you! Good night!" and walked away as fast as possible.

 - We knocked on another door and the lady that answered the door was not interested in learning about the Gospel of Jesus Christ but she gave my companion and I each a hard boiled egg.

 - We walked through a little alley way and through an open gate into a really fancy housing complex. After about 45 minutes of knocking and the success of finding a few potential investigators, we got kicked out of a really fancy apartment complex by the guard who did not seem too excited to be doing his job. We tried to share our message with him but he was kind of rude and probably irritated that two american missionaries were proselyting there. We told him that we loved him and we testified of the truthfulness of this gospel and how much happiness it brings to people. Hopefully we can go back and visit him when he is in a better mood.

 At church a former investigator from a LOOOONNNGGG time ago just spontaneously showed up half an hour early for sacrament meeting and stayed for all three hours of church and our ward lunch after church! #MIRACLE!

 Bade is such an amazing area! our ward is the greatest! I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THE PEOPLE HERE! I LOVE my mission!! I LOVE this Gospel!!!! :D :D :D Heavenly Father Loves us so much. He is just too good to us.

-Sister Goo