Great People

Hey folks!

It's been a fairly cold and rainy week up in Shalu, but we sure have seen a lot of miracles! It's been a great week.

Pretty much all I want to talk about all day every day is our AWESOME investigators Titan and Vivi. They are a couple we have been meeting with for a few weeks and they are just fantastic. Let me tell you some of the awesome things about them:

They came to church last week and someone gave Titan the Howard W. Hunter book we are using in church; he read all of it this week.

When we asked them if they had heard about tithing he said he had read all about it in the book and was totally willing to try it, sounds like a test of faith but it's great.

Last week when they came to church they were 10 minutes late because of the times of the bus they took. Yesterday we called them at 8:30 to see if they had found a ride to church and they said "Oh, we're already here, we took an even earlier bus!"

Titan set a goal for himself to be baptized in two weeks and announced it when he introduced himself in priesthood class.

Vivi was comparing the Old Testament and the Book of Mormon in her personal study in order to understand what the HWH book was talking about.

At church I overheard a member say to them, "Oh, you're investigators?! I was sure you were members who had just moved in from another ward!"

In conclusion, these are the greatest people ever. I am so grateful that I have the chance to come to Taiwan and meet people like this! The church is true.

Other things about this week... I went on exchanges to Zhongming, which is more in the middle of Taizhong. It felt like such a big city! Sometimes I forget that Shalu really doesn't have very many people. I went with Sister Gonzales, who is super cool and full of sunshine. It was a really fun exchange. The only downside to going on exchanges is that we have to ride the bus forEVER. But it's fine. I like buses. 

The saddest thing that happened this week was that my super awesome $11 watch from Target finally decided to fall off my wrist as I was stopped at a stoplight in Zhongming. I have worn that watch nearly every single day of my mission, but finally the pressure was too much. We came into this world together, but it didn't quite make it out of the world with me. RIP silver watch. 

Wow I wish I had some more exciting things to share. Ooh! I bought a really comfy sweater thing that I've worn like every day this week. It's really cold. But I have my cozy sweater and it's all good. 

Ooh here's an awesome quote I read in the Liahona the other day and LOVED: "God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity in the cloud, the oil in the earth. He left the rivers unbridged and the forests unfelled and the cities unbuilt. God gives to man the challenge of raw materials, not the ease of finished things. He leaves the pictures unpainted and the music unsung and the problems unsolved, that man might know the glories of creation." Thomas S Monson. https://www.lds.org/ensign/1988/03/in-quest-of-the-abundant-life?lang=eng

Yep! Love you all! Have a fabulous week. 

Sister Cardon

Picture: by the National Art Museum in Taizhong where went contacting on exchanges. That's my new sweater!