mom started her last email with "mondays are coming faster and faster" and i feel the same way. this has been an amazing week and a hard week. sister giraud-carrier left today and will be on a plane home tomorrow. she was such a great companion and is such a great person. i love her and we had an amazing move call together. my new companion is a taiwanese sister named sister chen!! i am so excited and speaking only chinese. oh boy. it's humbling to be put with a native. but she is great and patient and just a wonderful missionary. i am excited to be working with her. this move call is only 3 weeks long because of all the missionaries coming on island. chinese speaking missionaries are only in the mtc for 9 weeks!1 holy cow. we're expecting 24 new missionaries (including 10 new sisters!!) at the end of the month. i have no idea what is going to happen :) this work is so great.
happy birthday to luke and to dave! i love you both so much. i hope you have wonderful days full of delicious asia food. the food here in taiwan is so great. i love it.
last night, we had FHE at a member's home with some investigators and another member family. we had originally thought we would do the share and kindof ti gong everything. but then the host offered to prepare the treat. and the other family said "why don't we teach" and all us missionaries had to do was the game (UNO-thanks for those cards mom). it was great!! and the father of the family shared about the priesthood. it was so great! i love family home evening. i love this gospel and i also love the church. the programs and auxillaries are so amazing. i love seeing the church progress in taiwan. there are now second generation members who are preparing to serve missions. my new comp sister chen is a convert and i am just amazed at the strength of the members here.
i read a talk this week ( i think it is called- He is the Way). it talked about how Christ is the only way. some of us may think that the expectation to be like Him is too high. usually, the harder the endeavor, the fewer people achieve it. but with Christ that is not the case. we can become like Him because He is helping us. we have the spirit and the power of the Atonement. we are able because He is able and He loves us. the Atonement is amazing and there is always an opportunity to change and be better. life is hard but the gospel is simple. get on the path and stay on the path that leads to eternal life. the talk is beautiful and really hit me this week.
i've been praying about the training that sister burrows and i have been asked to do for a big english-teacher meeting. i was feeling really anxious about it on Wednesday during personal time and as i sat and prayed about it, i had an idea. Heavenly Father blessed me with direction and peace. He helped me think of the format our training should take. i am so grateful for the power of prayer and inspiration. we were also heading out the door the other day and i was praying that one of our investigators would get in contact with us so that we could arrange where to meet. the phone started ringing RIGHT THEN! and we ended the prayer and saw that it was her. God answers prayers and He loves us. i am so grateful to be a missionary.
i am so grateful for our family. i hope the wedding prep is going well. i cant believe how fast time goes by. move calls are seriously flying by and i am just trying to keep doing what Christ needs me to do.
i love you all so much and i'm grateful for your support. i will send pictures next week :) i am so proud of all of you. thank you for your support and for your examples. keep praying and keep reading
keep the faith
yours
Sister Newman
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