2014-01-27 A Week Full of QIJI

QIJI pronounced like chee(se) gee(z) haha

it means miracles!

 

Yes this week has been amazing!  AND CHINESE NEW YEAR STARTS!!  So this is a good/bad thing.  Everyone goes home, but unfortunatly for us a lot of the people we are teaching are younger so home is .. not in our mission/zone/area.  So we are planning on knocking on lots of doors, eating LOADS OF FOOD and meeting families.  We are going to try to plan for time to call people on the phone and have lessons (?) but it will be good.  We will make this time a busy time ;)

 

Our ward has already set up a schedule for LUNCH AND DINNER. Which means if anyone wants to invite us over we eat 2 lunches or 2 dinners.  Missionaries have been telling me stories of days they've had 2 lunches then went to 2 dinners right after!  Arrg.  I'm praying for my tummy to expand!  Also, they feed us either suuper American meals or suuper Chinese.  So that will be interesting to go from KFC to pig feet!!  I am way excited to be in a Chinese New Year!  Doing traditional things and eating traditional food.  So far, all the food I've eaten here has been weird but phenomenal!!

 

Friday was just full of amazing miracles.  We got a phone call from an investigator that has been worried about her family disagreeing with her being baptized so she has been slowly not meeting.  But she called, and said I want to follow Jesus Christ and be baptized.  I know he will help me.  She had been talking with another recent convert whose parents don't agree but the recent convert shared her testimony and then our investigator felt like that's what she needed to do!!  SO GOOD!

 

Then a less active started bringing her kids to lessons and we invited her son (10 years old) to be baptized and he said, "Okay, can we do it now?"  SO GREAT!  He is so cute, and has read the Book of Mormon without letting his mom know.  She's a returned missinoary and I just love their lessons because she helps us teach.  It is giving her the chance to build her testimony again!  It is amazing to see their family change.  Next step is to get the husband ready!  Their daughter is 7, but she said she wants to be baptized too!

 

OH AND THE WANG FAMILY!  We found them when we went to a less active who sells flowers.  The only reason she's considered less active is cause she never comes to church.  Well okay that's less active, but her TESTIMONY IS AMAZING.  And she is a such a good missionary haha!  Everytime we visit her she invites her customers and friends to meet with us and bears her testimony :)  That's how we found the Wang Family. We had breakfast with them after we met them and they have such good questions!  We were just going to to How to Being Teaching, but they were so interested we taught the 1st lesson!!

 

Anyway Friday.  We got that call, then we went to go see the less active.  And got 2 people's numbers that would like to meet with us to hear about the gospel!!  At every red light we split and talk to the women on motorcycles (if it's just a guy we have to talk to them with both of us!) and hand out things with scriptures and pictures on them.  They are really useful, but no one ever gives us their number!!!  SO COOL!

 

The week started off really slow, and we kept praying for us to be able to do the work.  And Friday and Saturday were CRAZY BUSY!  I just love how awesome Heavenly Father is in answering the small prayers.  One night we were biking up a long long road and I was just exhausted and my legs hurt.  I realized though that when I needed it most, there was a red light :)  Another night we hadn't gotten a chance to eat dinner yet and a less active kept giving us food!!  It really is the tiny tiny things that prove to me that He loves me and knows the desires (and worried) of my heart!

 

It is exciting for me to be here at such an awesome time!  Markets are full of so many people buying food for the New Year.  Everyone is changing, they have said to me, "It's the New Year I want to be a better person."  Such a great opprotunity to show people that we have the best way to do that ;) through baptism!!

 

Sometimes when lessons fall through we call through our APR (no clue what it stands for but what it means is the people we teach haha) or we do something called "Corners" and its what it sounds like!  We go up to a light, talk to people, then when the light changes we turn to right and go to that light and talk with the people waiting at that light.  Then move on!  We keep passing out those papers .. I will take a pic today and send it to you next week :)

 

Sorry this week is pretty short but I have just lost track of time!!

 

I love you all so much!!

Sister King
Juju Jimmie

Wang JieMei

1 Nephi 20:10

10 For, behold, I have refined thee, I have chosen thee in the furnace of ^aaffliction.

 

D&C 84:81-84

81 Therefore, take ye no ^athought for the morrow, for what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, or wherewithal ye shall be clothed.

 82 For, ^aconsider the ^blilies of the field, how they grow, they toil not, neither do they spin; and the kingdoms of the world, in all their glory, are not arrayed like one of these.

 83 For your ^aFather, who is in heaven, ^bknoweth that you have need of all these things.

 84 Therefore, let the morrow take ^athought for the things of itself.