Hey all!
This week, like all the others, has flown by!
Got a little sick this week.... Probably from the food we ate at a ward party. But I'm all better now. Elder Ieru gave me a blessing. Between that and sleep, my body was able to kick it pretty quick!
Which brings us to faith. Faith is sooo important. If you do not have faith, you will not have hope. Faith is the beginning of everything, and it has to endure throughout our conversion for us to continue on the path back home to our Heavenly Father.
This week I will work on Hope again. I'm going to try harder to incorporate these characters of Christ into my teaching, too. This week, like all the others, has flown by!
Got a little sick this week.... Probably from the food we ate at a ward party. But I'm all better now. Elder Ieru gave me a blessing. Between that and sleep, my body was able to kick it pretty quick!
Which brings us to faith. Faith is sooo important. If you do not have faith, you will not have hope. Faith is the beginning of everything, and it has to endure throughout our conversion for us to continue on the path back home to our Heavenly Father.
Something cool Sister Jenkins and I started to do this week: We made a sort of game out of who can recognize a prompting to go talk to someone first. So if, for instance, I say "We should talk to that guy" Sister Jenkins has to be the one to initiate the conversation. This has helped us improve both our Chinese use, and our obedience to the Spirit. Plus it makes finding a whole lot more fun!!
Our investigators have noticed our improvement in the language, and many have commented on it this week. That made us both happy, but we also know we have a lot to learn, and improve on what we know now. One thing specifically we are working on is understanding them when they talk to us. We noticed as we were talking in Chinese to potential investigators, they listened more: apparently our Chinese was decent enough because they figured they could talk fast in reply.... We aren't quite there yet though, so we kept having to ask them to repeat what they said. But we noticed a lot less doors shut after 5 seconds as they realized we could speak at least a little Chinese.
Sad story: for some
reason my SD card won't be read on any computers anymore.... I'll try to
figure it out, but for now, I'll share pics from Sister Jenkins camera.
That's it for this week. Love you all! Stay strong,
enjoy every minute of every day. You only have this time, right now,
once! Live it to the fullest!! No regrets!
Sister Springer
PS forgot to mention...
Last night had a lesson with one of my FAVORITE families, Ji and Yingdi Shi. They have one son with them here and the other is still in China. Hardest working people I know. They both want to do what's right soooo much. Ji is the sweetest husband to Yingdi, always helping her with her sewing shop where she makes cushion covers and stuff for couches, even after working 12+ hours at the tire shop. So sweet. Family is super important to them. We taught them about praying as a family last night. Their son said he would teach his dad how to pray. It was cute ^^
PS forgot to mention...
Last night had a lesson with one of my FAVORITE families, Ji and Yingdi Shi. They have one son with them here and the other is still in China. Hardest working people I know. They both want to do what's right soooo much. Ji is the sweetest husband to Yingdi, always helping her with her sewing shop where she makes cushion covers and stuff for couches, even after working 12+ hours at the tire shop. So sweet. Family is super important to them. We taught them about praying as a family last night. Their son said he would teach his dad how to pray. It was cute ^^
Sister Springer
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