No more going easy!!!

We have an apartment lizard named William. He's a good one. He likes to make sounds in the night (Who knew lizards make sounds?), and he eats the spiders. I love him. 

This week has been a really good one, and this week we are hitting transfers, which means my trainer and I will be splitting and one of us will move and things. I will be sure to update you all on that next week!

I am a happy missionary! I love seeing this gospel bless people, and seeing the change in people's hearts. Our precious LinYongLiang is getting baptized on Saturday and last Thursday completely quit smoking. He has such faith in the Lord and has completely shown it. As we have gotten to better know him and teach him I have come to love him so much. I rejoice in his successes and feel sorrow when he falls short, I feel eager to see where this gospel will take him. Interestingly enough, in teaching him, my personal gratitude for this gospel and specifically my family, has grown. His life lacked so much and still does, and the only difference is that my family has had the gospel. I know that God gave us families in order to bless us and this gospel will shape any family into something that will help its members. 

We also dropped Jeremy permanently this week. One thing stops him from receiving this gospel, but he isn't willing to change. It was a sad night, because I love that man, but I know that when the time is right he will accept the gospel. 

Taiwan is amazing, last week we went to the beach and it was beautiful!!! We also get to drink fruity milks and eat Guava almost everyday. We really live the good life. :) I have been able to play my violin quite a lot and this week did a musical number in church, it was amazing and spiritual and I love being able to share the gospel through music!

We had a mission conference yesterday and I got to learn some awesome things about teaching more repentance and baptizing more converts. And faith! It all contributed to the moral of what I learned this week, which is that I can no longer go easy in this work. I think missionary work is supposed to be hard, I think it is supposed to be something that pushes me harder than ever before, but I know that we missionaries have the capability to do the things the Lord asks. I have Big Faith, and I know that though I have weakness, the Lord will help me overcome it all, and use me to the best of my ability. I know this is true of everyone. We are weak, and we need help, but we have the most amazing force pushing us along- the Savior;s atonement and His love. Our trials are never too much for us to handle. I love you all and hope that this week we can all push ourselves to be our best selves in whatever capacity that we are in. 

Big Faith, and even Bigger Faith.