WEEKLY UPDATE: The Bade Sisters will FINALLY have a baptism!

Less pictures this week means I can actually write an email! Woot!

Seriously though, there is never enough time in a day to get all that I want to get done, done. Which is why recently my companion and I have been waking up extra early (and heading out the door at 6:00am) to get a head start on our day. The results are MIRACULOUS!! We are able to have more time to find new investigators, visit members and meet with our investigators AND we sleep better at night (because at the end of the day we are exhausted). We have been able to meet people that had we not gotten out early, would have never met. It's pretty cool.

We had Zone Conference with our Asia Area President Elder Funk this week. Our leaders always have wonderful counsel for us missionaries. This conference focused on making the sacrament THE MOST IMPORTANT part of your week. How exactly do we do that? I'll throw that question up in the air and let you all think about it this week.

With Sister Cheng and our lovely Summer.

 One of our investigators brought up an interesting question this week. She asked, "The American people's diet consists mainly of sugar, fat, and fried stuff. The Taiwanese people's diet consists mainly of rice, fruits and vegetables. So WHY are you American's teeth so straight and WHITE and Taiwanese aren't?" All that I could say to her was, "You have to use the right side of the toothbrush or it doesn't work." She didn't think it was funny. But I'm pretty sure the answer to this question is the toothpaste. Taiwanese toothpaste is very different...

 Yesterday was English day and to practice her English, my companion used English in our contacts with people on the street. We met and guy named Walker.  My companion is a gooofball and said, "Your name is Walker? Do you like to walk?" And then I started dying...😂

 When you say your prayers, read your scriptures, watch videos on LDS.org, who do you think about? Well, there is one investigator we have (She's kind of crazy). We met with her and followed up on how her daily prayers and scripture reading was going. She said it was going well. When she prays and reads she always thinks about Goo jie mei...She said ,"Sister Goo just makes this entire world different!" uhhhh...after that, we dropped our plan of teaching her about the Law of Chastity and taught a lesson about having faith in Christ. We'll keep trying with her......

 On the same but different note, one of our investigators, Shi Cheng You, is getting baptized this Saturday! He is 15 years old and sister Cheng and I have been meeting with him and his 13 year old sister Shi Meng Jun for about two months now. The Bade sisters will FINALLY have a baptism! But guess what? Cheng You is getting baptized in a different ward...He lives in Bade but because the only way to get to church is if someone drives him (and our Bishop does not want to inconvenience our members to pick up and drop off Cheng You every Sunday) so he will get baptized in Taoyuan (about 45 minutes away from Bade).

 Today for P-day, we are taking Roxanne to Miaoli (a super pretty place an hour train ride from bade where you can go and pick strawberries). This week is transfers....I have 18 weeks left.......😕

-Sister Goo