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It'd be great if I could tell you all the cool stories that happened this week, but I can't. If I told you, I'd have to kill you. And I can't, because my license to kill was revoked. So that's too bad.

Okay, not really. But, I can't really tell you any cool stories because I legitimately cannot think of anything cool that happened this week.

So I'll tell you some of the mundane things that happened this week!

Sister Thao and I are both almost out of money for the month so we have been eating $35 (that's Taiwanese money) bowls of turkey rice for, like, every other meal.

We spent a lot of time calling people last-minute to come to lessons with our investigators and we had some success, but also some unsuccess. We will plan better this week.

This morning we went to the hospital because Sister Thao has a wart on her foot and on the way there we had to wait for the train for 40 minutes but on the way back we had to run to make it.

I'm mildly addicted to the Butter Milk Bread they sell at 7-11. It's delicious and full of white flour.

We biked to our secondary area on Saturday, but we didn't really have a good map of the area, so we did a lot of "Do you know where this neighborhood is?" and people pointed us in vague directions. Finally after about an hour and a half of biking we found the neighborhood, but the house numbers didn't make any sense. Then we finally found the house, but when we got there a grumpy man told us that the lady we were trying to find hadn't lived there for ten years. We then went to 7-11 and had microwave dinners.

Yesterday at FHE we played a game kind of like "Big Booty" but with animal signs instead and it was really fun. Got a little rowdy. No one was hurt.

We are going to go shopping in Xinying today.

I am in charge of putting together a musical number for zone conference next week! So that is fun. We are having a quartet sing "I Believe in Christ." It should go well. 

And that concludes the mundane for this week.

Something that has been great about this week, though, is that we have some really great investigators who have a desire to learn. We met with Angela and Rainy last week and set baptismal goals with them, and this week when we met with them again and asked, "How do you feel about your baptism?" they both were really excited. Angela was worried that the baptismal interview would be a test about the Book of Mormon haha. it's really great to see them start to progress and build their testimonies and come closer to God. And I've noticed about myself that I have become much better at really listening to people and trying to figure out what they need and ask questions. Like, I always have tried to be friends with my investigators, but now I feel I can connect with them a lot more (Chinese helps) and really be on the same page. It's so important to really understand people and listen them. People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care! True facts.

Love you all! Have a great week.

Sister Cardon

Pictures: from our long bike ride on Saturday

...I don't really have any more pictures. Man, I was really bad at taking pictures this week! I will do better next week.