The New Finding Method

Just to let you know my new way of finding people is called getting lost. We found lots of new friends that way haha. Including a cute foreign married couple (they were about to go get massages) that gave us their email and phone number in case we ever needed anything. How about a lesson? ;)

Well, I took the lead this week, and all I can say is I'm not sure if I was born a missionary, but I am gonna do my best this week! And I think that that is all that matters in the end :D. 

We had fun eating expensive pizza. 

Word of week: huoguo is hotpot!

Short: I've got a minute before I got to go

Long: I'm still working on planning and setting goals. That includes planning on what I will say in emails haha.

Love you all! Wo ai nimen!

~Sister Hickman

~Mao Jie Mei

Taking the Lead

So this week we decided to shift roles- my companion gave me basically full responsibility, and even the word responsibility makes me unhappy and stressed (oh word of the week: zeren- zeh ren means responsibility). So it's been a week full of decision-making for a certain indecisive half-asian sister missionary. And lots of breakdowns. Lots. 

Short version: My companion and I got matching dresses, so now people think that Sister missionaries have to wear uniforms. 

Long version: I somehow managed to break the word of wisdom 3 times in 1 week because I drank a banana latte, red tea, and black tea. Everyone this is what happens when you can't read chinese haha. 

Also a cute 28yr old sister asked us for dating advice. We told her to go South Taiwan. #revelation #askthemissionaries

We also told her to meet one of our new members, and had a lesson with them both (new responsibility of missionaries- match-making? keneng ba)

I'll let you know how decision making goes, and if I survive the week

Jia you everyone and zai jian for now!

#yaodiyu

~Mao Jie Mei

P.s. the rain never bothered me anyway

A Great Mile Stone

Hey everyone I just want to let you know I hit a great milestone in my life last night. I killed my first cockroach. And I only screamed once :D. I hope everyone is proud.

Word of the week: ingwen (pronounced eeng-when) mean English!

Short Version: I'm famous again! we got a new English commercial (every Wednesday at 7 we teach a free English class) and let me just say it is amazing!! Go look it up on the Taiwan Taibei blog or search on Youtube English Class Taiwan Missionaries look for a logo with a missionary on a bike and watch it! I got a pretty nice hair flip in the video. Let me know if you want an autograph. Go and share it on facebook too!! haha tag me in it ;)

(Here is the link to the viedo she's talking about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VeAbsR9p5c)

Long Version: wow that short version is very long, so be prepared for the long version!! 

So normally I just do funny things but on Wednesday I actually had a huge miracle. So serious time! :)

A lady named Jennifer showed up at English class, and I remember I had given her an English class invite on a P-day. She came, without a phone reminder or anything, and was interested. So far on my mission I have felt so down on my chinese. But I tried my hardest to explain about our church and she set up for next wednesday, last wednesday. Running out of time- but on wednesday we had two lessons so we split and I went with Sister Althoff, my MTC comp who has also been here for 6 weeks. Our chinese was not good during the lesson, but I learned that she loved her son, did not have an easy life, and Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ loved her. We shared that message with her, and told her she can pray, and she cried. I knew that it didn't matter what chinese level I was at- it was important that the Spirit could testify of love.

Love you all! Go be happy!!

~Mao Jie Mei

Happy dragon boat festival!! There is a pic of me and Taibei 101

Sunny with a 100% chance of rain

Taiwan reminds me of those water rides where it says "you will get wet, you may get SOAKED!" or something cheesy.

Also it's like 100 degree celsius and rainy. It's boiling here! ;)

Word of the week: sui bien means whatever. example: this word of the week is sui bien(actually all of them are), and I don't even know if it's spelled correctly. :D

Short: go be happy

Longer version: We decided we are gonna be the happiest missionaries on the mission! It's gonna be a great week! Too bad once we decided that a couple hours later I was in a bad mood. My companion says "what happened to us deciding we were gonna be happy?" Then I started crying haha. Can I just say it's actually really hard to just decide to be happy. But we're gonna do it! Who's with us!?

Had the best P-day last week! Went to Jilon, which is super rainy. One side of tunnel, no rain. Other side I felt like we were transported to the rainforrest with a thunderstorm. Poor lady was biking up a hill against strong rains and winds with lightning in the background. All us missionaries sighed "awww" when we saw her. Xin ku ta!

In Jilon we got to light a lantern and send it off. On our lantern, we of course put things like our names, church, "repent ye repent ye" and #familiesareforever with a temple.

Also got to see Sister Ochao from the MTC! She is beautiful!

I hope everyone is good. Just go out, serve people and be happy! You can cry a little too if needed.

#yaodiyu

#zaijian

#shenqibaobe

Love you all! thanks for the warm wishes!

~Mao Jie Mei