Week (39, 40,) 41 A story about prayer 6/22/2020

Hey!!!!! Here is a little update on mission adventures with Sister Chou!

The beloved Sister Shay is now back home (I love you Sister Shay) and now I'm with Sister Romney! She is so awesome and makes up songs for all the scriptures we memorize. Ah she is so awesome. She's also just always super happy and just ready to grind and work here in Torrance! We spent a week in our old apartment and then got moved to a new apartment! We were going to get a third sister, but ended up not. But now we have 2 extra beds and a lot of extra space, hopefully we'll get new sisters soon to share it with!!

This week we met this guy from China, but he's in New Zealand now. He came to LA a year ago and saw the temple and tried to go inside but was then led to the visitor's center and took a tour. Then he finished his visit and got busy and went back to China, but recently he decided he needed to know about God and then moved to New Zealand. He was in contact with one of the Chinese sisters in the VC, and now she has gone home, but we met with him this week! We'll pass him on to the Chinese speaking missionaries pretty soon, but his lesson was so fun! He's already reading the Book of Mormon and learned a lot of things already. Also funny story about his lesson. During his lesson, he told me I could start with a prayer, so I did. Then after, we thought he meant he was going to say the closing prayer and that Sister Romney could say it next time, so we were like okay! And then he proceeded to say a prayer right then. Ahahah Sister Romney and I thought it was so cute but also trying not to laugh because we thought it was hilarious. That was a good one. Also, at the end we invited him to pray every day, and he was like, I like saying it with missionaries better. And so we were like, oh! We can call you every day and pray! And he was like ooh no no no no it's okay I can pray. So funny, AND THEN that night we created a group chat and he sent us a voice recording of his prayer...we weren't so sure what to do, but we are so glad he's praying!!!! He is so awesome!!

Our other friends are good. We had a lesson with Tina about baptism this week, and it went so good. She progressing towards her baptismal date so everyone please pray for her to feel the love of God and have the strength to continue!! And we also got to do a drop by with our friend Eric! Basically we can just go to their  door step and drop something off and can say hi and stuff and talk to them for a second of course with social distance and face masks. But we brought him takis and got to talk to him in real person. It's been so long since I've seen this kid and ah I just have missed it so much. Both me and Sister Romney are super thankful we can do this now! We just bought sour candy for him so hopefully he likes that for this next week.

Okay that's all I wanted to share today haha I love you all, your Father in heaven loves you, and I hope all of you are safe and well(:

Week 40 .... 6/15/2020

Week 39 Goodbye to Sister Shay )': 6/8/2020

Sister Shay is leaving. I hope the whole entire wide world knows how much I love her.

Today we went to go get a car wash and the receipt never came out. We went in to the gas station to ask for it and so the lady did. We walked out and 2 seconds later Sister Shay turned around and went back in and told her we were the missionaries and asked if she wanted to do a Bible study. Well, we are calling her tonight. This is the kind of amazing Sister Shay is.

To put into perspective how long I've been with Sister Shay, well, she followed up trained me so I've been with her since my second transfer. 6 months of absolute party. Someone asked us yesterday if there has ever been a day when we have just been really frustrated at each other, and I can honestly say, after 6 months of being with her every single second, there is not a day I haven't wanted to be her companion. I am just absolutely happy with Sister Shay. 

We got sushi again today!! And went to a bakery and shared bread! And we are having our twin party today!!! Ah I am so excited!!

Tuesday evening I'll have a new companion Sister Romney!!! I love sister Romney you guys, she is so positive and amazing. I went on exchanges with her a couple of weeks ago, and I just love her. She is coming to Chinese zone and I'll train her to be an STL and then we'll party together!!

This is a little short but I'm going to go help Sister Shay pack haha okay bye

Week 38 Baptism, early twin birthday... Weary the Lord in asking and thanking 6/1/2020

Hey this will be a quick one again! Haha I just want to spend all the time I can with Sister Shay before she leaves. Still in denial because I want to stay with her foreverrrrr 

Our friend Sara got baptized yesterday!!! Her journey has been amazing (and it's going to continue), and all the members just love her.  We have just seen her grow so much and despite her trials and the ones she is still going through, she decided to trust. We weren't able to be at the baptism though, but what was absolutely AMAZING is that her family who aren't members were there and I know that they just see how much she radiates with joy!! We are hoping to get some of them to join is for a Bible study sometime!

Also if anyone was wondering about our recent convert Annie, well, when Sister Shay goes home she can finally download WeChat and hopefully finally teach her the new member lessons!! But she is good!!

Twin birthday party!!!!! Me and Sister Shay celebrated our birthdays today!!!!!! We just wanted to be together and so we decided to move both of our birthdays up🎉🎉🎉we were going to invite the sisters over and celebrate, but because of the riots, we can leave our apartment after 12:30pm so we didn't end up having a party)): we will next week though!!! And a sister just hit her 1 year and another sister's birthday is coming up, so we're just going to celebrate them all and we even have little presents for all of them. But we celebrated our birthdays anyways and got some sushi, and both our parents sent us SO MUCH MATCHING STUFF!! We have matching everything now. Ahahah I LOVE my parents they are the besttttt. 

Also me and Sister Shay gave a training this week ahahaha it was hilarious we acted out something with the shoulder angel and shoulder devil and it was so funny. Well, long story short, when we remember to ask people we're teaching to see if the have any friends that could use this message, we send in a fruit emoji. I'm happy to report that our chat has been full of fruit.

Lastly, we role played with one of our friends how they would talk to their brother about the Book of Mormon, AND SHE DID SO GOOD. We got chills and it was such a miracle.

We were on our knees so much this week because it just seemed like after every lesson, contact, training, etc. We just got miracle after miracle. God really does give us so many miracles, and I am just so grateful for them. We heard from a training this week "weary the Lord in asking" and so yes, we have been doing that. And I'd like to add "weary the Lord in thanking."

Love you all!!!