Chi Bao le ma?

Hi Family!!

The first week of my 3rd transfer is over and all is swell in Zhubei! Hey, just for clarification, my mailing address never changes. I used to think that when someone was transfered you'd have to mail to a different address, but I guess it always goes to the mission office. I know Jessica had mentioned needing the new address, but it is the same! :)

This week has been SO GOOD!!!! I LOVE my companion, Sister Weng. She's so cute and so much fun. She loves Stitch from Lilo and Stitch, which is funny, because she kind of reminds me of/looks like Stitch. She's really random and scatter brained, very down to earth, and just funny. She's VERY clean, which is good for me. We spent 5 ours of our P-day scouring our apartment. It looks and smells so nice! Haha. She is a very picky eater, which is funny too. She thinks everything is so "exin". Funny, you'd think she's not from Taiwan. She really loves "cute" things. So she bought the little happy meal toy stuffed rabbit at McDonalds and sometimes buys little toys at 7-11. She's so funny. She's also very humble and spiritual. We have some good conversations. She has a lot of faith and is very honest about her feelings. I love it!

So our second day together we had to make our transfer baptismal goals to send to the Zone Leaders. We went over all our investigators and Sister Weng said, "Let's do 8." I thought that was a very high number, but I thought she knows what she's talking about, so I didn't worry about it. Well, as it turns out, last month our entire mission baptized 37 people and the goal for our little district of 4 companionships is 21! Haha. The Zone Leaders gave a lecture to the district leaders (I was there just because my companion is the coordinating sister in the zone) about making goals too high and stuff. It kind of was frustrating just because who says we can't achieve that goal? Seeing as we only got 1 baptism last transfer you may say it is highly improbable of finding and baptising 8 people. But seeing as Sister Weng and I already made the goal and can't change it, why squelch our faith? Lecture us AFTER we don't achieve it. So anyway, it's been a really good week. We've prayed ALOT and done alot of changing. I've realized that for too long I've allowed myself to be a back-seat companion because I was too afraid of speaking or I figured I would "ease into it". Sister Weng is an amazing contacter. She contacts everyone she sees, which is very exhillirating (still frightening). So I've tried to do alot of changing and am contacting ALOT more people. It feels SO much better. There's no guilt when you're talking with all you can. I still can do so much more. Our district leader, Elder Broadhead, is a very good guy and has alot of faith. Instead of passing on the message that our goals are too high, he's pumped up our district to try our best and have as much faith as we can to achieve the goal. He told me the other day that he had some inspiration that if I watch Sister Weng and do everything she does and "get in on the action" then we'll see miracles. I still have alot to do, but it's gotten better and actually, we ARE seeing miracles!! Our 8 goal had no foundation, but we so far have 3 people that are farely solid with 1 that is almost there. They are really neat people and have alot of faith. It's really neat because we know that really, these people coming to us out of no where has been nothing of our doing. Heavenly Father really blesses us if we believe He will and we do our own part. I know that's true. If we can be as motivated as we have been, things will be great. Here are a couple of the miracles (although small) that have happened in the past week:

1. We taught the cutest 50 year old women named Lily. We set a baptismal date and she accepted it very easily. Then we taught her the word of wisdom and she came to Church the next day very tired because she'd already gone cold turkey on coffee and tea. She's soooo full of faith and so good! She read half of 1 Nephi in a week!

2. A woman named Grace came to English class. Elder Sessions taught about baptism in his after-class "fenxiang" and she came up to him and said, "what does it take to be baptized?" We taught her for the first time yesterday and she set a baptismal date!

3. I contacted a woman at a stoplight but didn't have time to get her info before the light changed. On the other side of the intersection, SHE stopped ME to give me her information and set up an appointment to meet. So cool!!

4. We're just meeting alot of people. I really believe that when we make a decision that we will contact everyone we see, he will trust us to place prepared people in our path so that we will contact them. I fully believe that. I believe that's the case with everything. When I get home I want to try it. If we make a decision to look for an opportunity to serve someone, bare our testimony, whatever everyday, the Lord will put someone in our path who needs it most because he'll trust that you'll do it.

5. We tracted a door of a girl that had wanted to join the church a while ago but hadn't due to family opposition. She set up an appointment with us!

Anyway, despite the miracles and good things that are happening, we've had some let downs too. It's been good though. We had such a good feeling when we prayed for 8 people to receive the gospel that we know that every let down is just a trial of our faith so it doesn't hurt quite as much. For instance, we lost our cell phone...this hurts our work quite a bit...but it's gotta be for a reason, right? And no, I wasn't the one who lost it. Haha. But we also had a really awesome investigator, Liao Ming Hua tell us that her life had changed since she met us so she was thinking of setting a baptismal date sometime--but then her daughter miscarried and she was so sad that she "lost desire and that feeling to continue" so she cancelled her lessons with us!! Ku!!! (cry). So SAD!!

Anyway, it's been a really good week and alot of fun. Haha, an investigator came to church yesterday, sat down, and held my hand!! She held it for at LEAST 3 minutes. It was so awkward!! I didn't know what to do! Haha. Very interesting.

Anyway, life is great! Elder Christofferson is coming this weekend! So excited!

Love you all!!
Coley