This week has been so happy, so crazy, and so hard all at the same time.

 

There were some happy moments, some crazy moments, and some hard moments. Understand? Okay thanks, that's my email. Bye.

 

Love, Hayley

 

 

Just kidding, I will actually write an email. Silly me.

 

No really this week has been filled with possibly every emotion that it is possible to feel! Transfer calls were in and I am staying in my first area, Yilan, for another two transfers. Good thing it's such a good place. :) I have been asked to train Sister Yang, a cute Taiwanese girl serving here while she waits for her VISA. Afterwards, she will head to the MTC and the Temple Square mission. On December 13th! She is really awesome and I really love her a lot! It has been crazy speaking so much Chinese, and we are working to help each other, learning Chinese and english. Sometimes I am pretty sure that I have forgotten how to speak English so that is a little bit sad!

 

The work is coming along, and last week we had some awesome miracles happen. The lady that randomly called us is fully committed to be baptized and will progress very quickly, I can already tell! The family we are teaching came to a few sessions of general conference and they loved it! They are currently Catholic, but I know that they will slowly come to understand authority and things, and that as they do so will commit to be baptized. ChenJieMei is also doing very well. We are helping her to overcome problems with keeping the sabbath day holy, but she is practically begging to be baptized after watching general conference and things. She loves our church! It is really cool! LinYongLiang is having a hard time and we are working to strengthen him and his faith. This work is hard, but so rewarding.

 

I loved the opportunity to listen to general conference this weekend! It was everything that I ever hoped it would be and really encouraged me and answered a lot of my questions. I especially loved Elder Bednar's talk about coming closer to the Savior and believing Him as well as believing in Him. Different concepts, but both very good. I have learned a lot about myself and God this past week. He really wants to give us experiences to grow, for which I am grateful, and only sometimes complainy about. I know that He is helping me to become more humble and be the missionary that He wants me to be. I love Him and I love being the daughter of  a Heavenly Father who loves us so much. I know that even though we have trials, like one of the speakers this week said, God's intention is not to throw us out of the game, but to bring us back to return to Him. I know that this is true.  I love you all and I love this gospel, the place where we can come to be healed, serve, receive peace, and grow. It really is my biggest blessing. I love you all and hope that we can all take things from this conference weekend and apply them to our lives!

 

You are all amazing! Big Faith, and even Bigger Faith!

 

Hayley

 

P.S. I finally got my sweet Taiwan name

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