Typhoons and Moon Festival

Sept. 18, 2016 email

They are wearing Pomelos on their heads.  Not sure why, but I'm assuming something to do with the Moon Festival.  Pomelos look like giant moons and they've been eating lots of them so........

Another wonderful week here in Taiwan. Just so you all know we are safe and sound from the "massive typhoon". hahahaha it was basically some rough winds and rain. I'm pretty sure I've seen it 10x worse every single time we go to Lake Powell:) Sometimes people over react a lot. Especially here in Taiwan. hahahaha.

This week was the moon festival so nobody had work from about thursday to sunday! So dang fun. The only hard part for us missionaries was that nobody wanted to set up with us because they were all partying and what not...oh well. We still saw miracles! Here we go:)

Last monday we went to the zoo for Pday and met these two guys from england. They were SO CURIOUS as to what Mormons actually were. They couldn't believe that we were even normal people. We had a good chat and shared with them true doctrine, they were so pumped that we were so normal and not a cult that they asked if we could get them in touch with the missionaries in England. OF COURSE!

Wednesday we had english class and went english boarding right before to get some new kids coming. The wind was going CRAZY! so much fun! Like so dang windy! People were laughing at us trying to hand out english flyers but it was still a great time. Even with the typhoon that night, we each had about 3 new students in all of our classes. Miracles of English boarding in the Typhoon:) That night Yvonne also had her baptismal interview! She was a little nervous. We all said a prayer together and asked for Heavenly Father to comfort her and give her confidence. By the time the interview was over she had the BIGGEST smile on her face!!!! I've never seen her so happy or talk so much ever! She is so ready to get baptized:) Sadly, because of the Typhoon her baptism got cancelled and moved to this friday! Pics next week!!

Some of the members in Muzha:)

This week we also got the chance to be temple tour sisters again! Except this time it was a little different. The temple sisters were backed up on all the referrals that hadn't been sent yet so they asked us to go into the mission system and send them all in. 

woa.

My eyes  and brain were broken after about 3 hours of putting referrals in.

BUT! We got them all done!! So now all those people will be set up with missionaries and can finally start learning about christ and preparing for baptism! The office elders have it rough. That's basically what they do all day everyday!

Thursday was the moon festival! The weather was pretty good that day and EVERYONE was outside doing some good old taiwanese bbq. It all smelled so good! Sadly nobody invited us over to bbq with them, so Sister Eyre and I went on a nice comp date to a yummy japanese place. Then we went down by the river contacting and met some awesome new investigators! Everyone was down there checking out the moon and setting off fireworks! It's cool to see how willing people are to here about Jesus Christ when they feel the Holy Ghost. I know that Prayer and teaching true doctrine will soften hearts as the spirit touches them.

This is how Emma writes home every monday.  Those two have the best smiles!

We are so dang excited for all the exciting things this week has in store for us!

This was one of my favorite scriptures from my Book of Mormon reading this week:)

4th nephi 1:15 

"And it came to pass that there was no contention in the land, because of the love of God which did dwell in the hearts of the people."

The Love of God is the greatest of all things! if we are always trying to be like Christ and love everyone we will be able to better understand people and help them learn about the healing and enabling power of the Atonement. :)

other fun facts this week:

-killed a cockroach in the middle of the night,....I had to go to the bathroom and the lights were off....I saw an even darker spot scuddling around and new it was a cockroach....I grabbed my shoe ( still no lights ) and smashed it and went back to bed......

in the morning there were like a gazillion ants feasting on it.....nast....

-I had a handful of Great Harvest granola and cried.

-Sunday we met so many old ladies and they would not stop touch our facing and telling us we were beautiful...oh my gosh they are hilarious. I've never been rubbed up so much in my life!

have a fab week Love you guys.xoxoxoxoxoxoxox

"Smite The Earth With The Word Of God"

Sept. 11, 2016 email

What an awesome week. Seriously so much dang fun. Missionary work is the hardest but most happy, satisfying work in the entire world! I LOVE MUZHA!

We shall start with last Monday. We traveled to Yingge and made pots! It's this little village not far from zhongli that is famous for throwing pots! So we all went and made pots together. Some good clean fun:)

But best part about monday was our super duper cute investigator Yvonne. She is adorable and hopefully getting baptized this saturday! Monday night we met with her. Usually we ride our bikes to our house, but we were completely out of time so caught a bus about half way there so we wouldn't be late. Our lesson started at 8:30ish. We were teaching, praying, singing, testifying, all that good stuff, then I looked down at my watch and it was 9:10.....the buses stop coming at 9.......and we are at the top of a mountain and have to be home by 9:30! OH NO! We rapped up the lesson real fast and booked it out of there. Sister Eyre and I looked at each other and were like. "oh crap...what do we do!!!" We both knew what to do. Zipped up our backpacks real tight, and booked it down the mountain. We were running our guts out!!!!!!!! like literally sprinting down this mountain!

I AM NOW GOING TO TESTIFY OF HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO EXERCISE!! I looked down at my watch and it was 9:15...oh my goodness!!! I yelled at sister eyre and said, 'LETS PRAY!" We asked Heavenly Father to give us the stamina we needed to run down this mountain, get to our bikes and make it home in time. Heavenly Father answered our prayer X10!! we were FLYING!! I wish someone could have videoed it or something! We raced down, grabbed our bikes and were in our house right at 9:29. 

:)

These three pictures are of the absolutely AMAZING ward members in Muzha!! Once a month they help the missionaries find people to teach.  The entire ward!!  And each of these ladies and Ji Pei Di send me photos and little notes about Emma quite frequently.  I love the members in Muzha!

Sister Clawson on splits with Jewel.  She is a recent convert who is on Fire!!  She radiates joy and goodness and takes care of the missionaries:)  

The Lord will always help us! I'm so grateful for his endless help and guidance!! Huge testimony builder. Again ! something new every week! 

I don't have much time but here were some other tender moments from the week.

-we found 3 new families this week:)

-riding our bikes through waterfalls it rained so dang hard.

-ate TONS  of pomelos:)

-went on splits with the ward.

-a mean asian guy from america chastized us for being missionaries.

-and soooooo much more!

One of the greatest miracles this week was from our other lesson with Yvonne saturday night. Sister Eyre and I were just kind of nervous with how much she actually wanted to get baptized and if she really had a growing testimony. We prayed and planned for our lesson and knew the Holy Ghost would guide us to know how to help her. We taught and we had the impression to ask her how her prayers went the day before. She then told us the most tender story about how she was so stressed for her test, said a pray, and had the most amazing feeling of comfort come over her. She said she new it was the Holy Ghost and that Heavenly Father knows and loves her. 

:) She is excited to be able to get baptized this week:) 

Hopefully all continues to go well:) I know the Lord loves all his children and is helping yvonne so much:)

I love this work and the happiness that comes from this Gospel!!!

Mom and family! Go and read 3nephi 28!!! It changed my life this morning!!

lvoe you all so dang much!!!

I Love You Family!

Sept. 4, 2016 Email

Hello my dearest family:) This week was a blast and a half. Way different than any other week because Sister Eyre and I had like 15,000 different meetings and things we had to go

to this week!! All in all we are spiritually uplifted and ready to put it all into action this week:)

Last monday was so stinking cool. We all went to the National Palace Museum together. Ji Pei De even took off work to come with us:) We've been planning this trip for like a month because they have 7 Terracotta warriors on display there! WHAT?! 

The museum is absolutely beautiful. It was  super duper dark inside though (apparently to preserve the ancient artifacts....whatever..) So not gonna lie, I got way tired for a hot minute! But It was all just so neat and old with tons of history behind all of it. Elder Jackson in our district is a major in Archeology so he was just freaking out having a hay day like a 5 year old with a handful of candy. It was fun to watch and he was a good professor guide for us:)

The Coolest part was definitely the Terracotta warriors. Lets be real...all I knew about the Terracotta warriors was from what I saw in The Mummy3. So not a ton....but luckily Elder jackson gave me ALL the background and I became very educated! History is so neat! Good Pday.

Wednesday we had English class! I've been called as the new english leader so we had to go to the Mission home for a training on the whole thing. English class is a lot more intense than I thought but I am so stoked to help everyone else get pumped about it and to Teach Repentance and Baptize Converts through english class!!

Anyways, now for the funny part.

So I'm all pumped about english class right? so I did some good prep for my class. This weeks lesson was on How to go to The Pharmacy.! sounds like good, clean, fun, english class right?!

No!

We had a new student in our class that was NUTS! She was a bit lost in the head..but anyways she got way carried away with medicine, the way you take medicine, which then lead to other kinds of medicince, AKA drugs! She then started talking about how a little bit of heroine never hurt anyone!

AGH.

Lets just say I had to kindly escort her to the hall and then had a lesson with my class on how drugs are not good for you. Ever, which then lead in to a nice discussion on the Word of Wisdom:) Perfect.

Word of Wisdom for the WIN!!

Ps thanks dad for really teaching me the Word of wisdom. I don't know if you remember but one day we were talking about exercise and being healthy, like we do:) and you shared with me D&C 89. I have loved it and 100% believed it ever since. I think I was like 14. Best Dad award goes to you! Love you tons;)

Thursday we had a killer Trainer Trainee follow up meeting!!! It was super fun to get together with everyone and refocus! Me and Sister Eyre are over half way done with training. WE cry about it every night. well at least I do...:( She's the best and we have been have seen SO many miracles together!

Friday we had exchanges with the Sister Training Leaders. It was a blast! I learned so much! Sister Tinsley was my comp for the day and she really pushed me to think outside of the box and to set some awesome goals. She also helped me see that I have awesome faith in the Lord, But do I have 100%? Woa. this made me think big time! I have faith. But I don't have 100%. Huge eye opener for me. I know as I have complete 100% trust in the Lord He will NEVER let us fail:)

This sunday was the greatest! I have this english Student that has come to my class the whole time I have been in Muzha and his daughter goes to Sister Eyres class. Jungle and Barbie.

best names ever:)

Anyways we set up to meet with them and share with them more about the gospel! They invited us to their home and gave us their address. Ok. Cool.

We were riding our bikes looking for the house and...............

turns out they basically live in the Ritz Carlton of Taiwan......................

like literally I can't even............

It was nicer than the Grand America mom!!!!!

So we went inside to this building and they treated us to Iced cocoa and Chocolate cakes.

Holy crap it was so posh:)

We got to meet with his wife and share with them about eternal Families. They got all sorts of excited and we are meeting with them again this week:)

Last night we also got to go with our beautiful Yvonne to a fireside for investigators. It is amazing to see her change so much. She smiles and talks more and more every time we meet with her. The changing and life-enriching power of this gospel  cannot be described. As we rely on Christ's Atonement, we can change:) AGH SHE'S SO GOOD!

Love you with my whole flippin heart and miss you guys like crazy.

xoxoxoxoxxoxoxoxoxxoxoxo

emma

I Luh Taiwan!!

Aug. 28, 2016 email

Looking for packages!!!  Hopefully Sister Clawson's package full of Dr. Bronner's Minty soap made it!!! 

Oh man this week felt LONG! I don't know why. It was still fantastic but I was pooped this morning and grateful for a good ol P-day:) 

we will start off with the adventures from last pday:) Last week we all went up the Maokong Gondola again! But this time we went exploring around all sorts of super duper sick temples! We took a lot of pics. Sister Eyre is basically Mulan;) we were up there exploring for hours! So much fun and so dang pretty! Pday adventures are always a blast.

oh and cool news! I'm the new English Unit leader! So basically I'm in charge of all our english classes and trainings with them so that we can effectively get new investigators while helping others learn english:) How fun! I'm kind of nervous...because My english is getting worse day by day...but is my desire to teach repentance and baptize converts worse? NO! So it should be lots of fun:)

I'd say these two are enjoying their watermelon.  Yellow Watermelon:)  It's dripping off of Emma's chin!

This week we had temple tours and it was full of all sorts of neat experiences! We shared with people from all over the world! It's super hard when you meet people that don't speak english OR chinese.....SHOOT! But that's ok, the spirit does all the talking. :)We taught 3 guys from Korea and then a chinese man and his wife who is from Poland! It was such a cool tour. We taught it in chinese and then he would translate to her in polish...what?! I'm so glad I'm not learning polish! it sounds SO HARD! His chinese was really hard to understand as well....polish chinese..hahaha:) And now they are all meeting with the missionaries! Temple tours for the win:) We also got to see all the new missionaries that came in this week! 36 new missionaries!!!! WOW! Both Muzha companionships have trainees now cause elder Jackson is training now too! So much fun")

This weeks pictures all came from "other people".  Either members or Sr. Missionaries:)  Thank you!!!

The First one was on Thursday night. So in Taiwan you have to take out the garbage everyday when they truck comes. Except thats sometimes hard as a missionary cause you are always out talking to people being busy and what not. so....Sister eyre and I had 9 MASSIVE bags of garbage in our fridge and freezer.....this is so we don't get cockroaches!!!! We decided that we HAD to take out the garbage tonight! We gathered all the heaping bags, arms straining from how heavy they were, and hauled them to the street. We waited. No truck. 5 Minutes pass. no truck. 

Oh crap! We MISSED THE GARBAGE TRUCK! but now we are standing outside with 9 bags of garbage....what are we gonna do?! WE cant just leave it! And we CANT put it back in our house!!!!!!

I looked at Sister eyre and said, "Lets pray!" hahhaaha oh man.

I prayed that Heavenly Father would help us to know where we needed to go or what we needed to do to get rid of our garbage.

2 minutes pass. and we hear someone laughing....

I'm like, Who in the heck would be laughing at us?! 2 cute american girls with a ton of garbage is NOT funny! (hahaha ya it is:)

A scooter pulls up to us and guess who it is? 

Ji Pei De.

WHAT.

hahahahha he was out for a night run to Mcdonalds and decided to take the backroads:)

He jumped off his scooter, we each grabbed 3 bags, and he said, "The garbage truck will be at my house in 5 minutes, run!" so we booked it up the Alleys of muzha to the garbage truck and plopped it in just in time:)

GOD ANSWERS ALL OUR PRAYERS NO MATTER HOW WEIRD THEY ARE!!!

I know that God lives and he loves us:) 

I've been reminded so much of that this week. God will always answer our prayers and the Holy Ghost will always guide us. We just have to listen!

 

Last night we were on the street and met this lady. We had shared with her a message of the restoration and set up to meet with her again. I was scared to talk to her about baptism because I didn't want to scare her away! I had the strongest impression to open up my mouth and tell her about the blessing of baptism, Like Im supposed to as a representative of Christ! Before we left we invited her to baptism. 

She gave the most solid yes I've ever received my whole mission.

She explained that if she really knew it was true, why wouldn't she get baptized!!!!!! YES!

We must ALWAYS listen to the promptings of the Holy Ghost. No matter what! If I hadn't listened, that Lady wouldn't have set a baptismal date and known about the blessing of baptism. Always remember to have courage and be kind!!!!!

we left that contact with that lady giving hugs and so much love.

10 minutes before she was a complete stranger. 

Be kind to everyone and always testify of Jesus Christ:) Love you guys so dang much:)

emma

How Great Thou Art!

Aug. 22, 2016 email

Emma and Sister Eyre at the Taipei Temple with Willie.  He a recent convert that Emma taught in Zhongli.  It was his first time to the temple, and he came on the day Emma did temple tours:)

What another wonderful week here on the mission:) Taiwan is hot and glorious. The sky has been SO blue the past few days! Absolutely beautiful. Every night at like 5 the light starts to go down and its just pure summer. Know what I mean? Just low late summer light. agh:) from like 5-8 everyones all out playing basketball. Everytime I want to go play with them SO BAD. Looks so dang fun! Speaking of basketball...Im getting pretty good. We play every saturday with the local hooligans and it's a blast. :)

Last week!!! Monday was so dang fun! We all went out to lunch together with some members at this super delicious Thai food place. It was so dang fun! WE just ate and talked forever. Afterwards me and Sister Eyre had some pretty adventurous plans for the rest of P-day. HIT UP CARREFOUR! We are ridiculous..:) Carrefour is like costco. so good:) All in all we had a fun Pday last week;)

T

Dinner at a Thai restaurant

Sister Eyre is beat!

his week has been full of ups and downs, so many miracles, and lots of fun new adventures!

Elder Sessions left us this week so we all cried and stuff. He will be desperately missed. But the work still keeps moving dang it!

Ok, so I just gotta take a minute and talk about one of our cute new investigators. His name is You Rei:) He is 16 years old and fabulous! He is the most interesting taiwanese teenager I have ever met. He has a clothing business with his mom and designs clothes! what?! He's so kind and so open to learning about the gospel. He wants to get baptized and loves reading the book of mormon but doesn't think he should get baptized till he is 18. This is his own decision...not like a parent saying no. He said he decided when he was 14 that he wouldn't make any big choices till he was 18. Ok?! I haven't met one 16 year old kid who thinks that in depth! He's super special and we are excited to keep working with him:) 

Beautiful Muzha! And look Grandpa Garner!!!!  They have McDonalds!!

Now for an amazing miracle this week!! We have this adorable investigator named Yu Xuen Xin:) We have been working with her for almost 3 months now but she has just been moving really slowly. She is so cute, but just hasn't been keeping her commitments and invites. This week we met with her and were going to have to talk to her about maybe not meeting with her anymore. :( We went into our lesson and followed up with her on her reading in the Book of Mormon. Guess what she said....

"Really Good! I read the first 7 Chapters in First nephi! It's a story about this family, and they have this really awesome righteous son that Listens to God and then he's also got two really wicked brothers! I loved it!"

uhhhh,,...

Willie!

YES! THIS IS WHAT WE'VE BEEN TELLIN YOU!

We were giddy little school girls as we continued to talk about the Book of Mormon and Prayer. We are excited for her and this new page she's finally turning. I know for a fact that God will always hear and answer our prayers. He's done it for me everyday on my mission.

I was humbled by this experience and reminded that we always need to have faith and never assume anything. Cause you all know what assume means! hehehe thanks dad:)

Other fun highlights from the week.

-WE got to go to the temple with My RC from Zhongli this week! his first time inside!

-we locked ourselves out of our apartment on sunday....shoot. had to travel all the way to the mission home for the spares..:(

-we play How Great thou Art and blast it at the top of our lungs for WPS every week:) soooo good.

Pancakes for Sunday dinner!!  

Meeting up at Mission Conference with all of Emma's MTC  companions!!!  Love these girls!!

I love Taiwan so dang much:) this church is so dang true. Like there is literally no way it can't be true. Just read the Book of Mormon and earnestly pray! God loves us all and is just waiting to answer our prayers:) Love you so much fam damily.

MIRACLES! I Love Taiwan!

Aug. 14, 2016 email

The cutest Temple Tour Sister's I've ever seen!

This week was fantastic!!!! I'm so grateful to live in such a special and peculiar place like Taiwan. :) Last Monday, us, the elders and Ji Pei De all went to check out Wulai canyon on the waterfall! Super duper fun. We went super far up past the waterfall and found SO MANY of the biggest banana spiders in the world that had spinned webs in the power lines. So what do 4 americans and one special taiwanese man do. Try and hit them out of their webs with rocks or grab super long sticks and try to make them fall...

We were at this for like 2 hours.... we were so intrigued by the spiders. they are seriously as big as your face! Pei De knocked a big guy out and we studied it for quite some time. NATURE IS SO NEAT. Ji Pei De told me later that night that he was so interested in us 4 americans playing with spiders, he thought it was very strange and just couldn't figure out why we were all playing with spiders! Taiwanese and Americans. We have a very different thought process... ;) But it was so dang fun!

Wulai Waterfall on P-day

Tuesday Was fabulous. we had an awesome district meeting and just all talked for a solid hour on how we can really help our investigators needs, and then I had the coolest phone call experience that night with a Dad that we had met the week before at a park with his 2 kids. I called him to make sure he was still ok with us visiting him the next day. We talked for a second and then he opened up A TON! He told me that he wants more than anything to be with his 2 kids forever and was so touched that we had told him that through Jesus Christ it was possible! We then talked for like a solid 7 minutes, he had so many questions!!!!!!!!!!!! He feels really guilty for his past and for the way his relationship has ended up with his wife:( They got divorced and things are just rough now. (yes he was sharing this all with a 19 year old girl from america!) I prayed for him over the phone and he was feeling a lot better. Then after all the fiasco he told me he actually lives in Taoyuan. hahah. Good luck taoyuan Missionaries! you're getting a good guy!

Wednesday was quite the surprise:) 

CAUSE DAVID ARCHULATA CAME AND WE GOT A SURPRISE CONCERT!

Basically I was smiling like a little school girl the whole time. He shared stories from his mission and sang for us and it was so good:) He is an awesome kid and is going straight to heaven.

I haven't had the heart to tell Emma that her beloved TROOPER back in Utah died!!!  That car gave up the ghost, up in the mountains taking kids on another fabulous adventures!!  Emma's Trooper was exactly like the one in the picture:)  We would always sing "Super Trooper" by ABBA everytime we rode in it.  It really was a Super Trooper in our books!!  RIP Trooper:)

We got to see him again on saturday when we had temple tours and that was neat:) SO many people were there for a concert he was doing. We got 15 Tours in!! Tour days are endless and you are so tired! But we made some awesome friends and met great people. We gave a tour to 4 boys from Japan. They were great. only one of them spoke english and he translated everything for his friends. One of them was in LOVE with sister Eyre. We took a pic with them at the end of our tour and he got real close to her...poor girl. She's just so perfect! Then they all scheduled to meet with the missionaries in Japan next week. So great how small the world gets and how everyone can have a chance to hear about this beautiful gospel! 

These are the 4 Japanese boys that took a temple tour.  Who wouldn't take a tour with those cute girls as your guides!

Temple tours are always great. We gave a tour to Elder Dongs mom and an investigator from Tainan, My RC and 2 other friends from Zhongli, a group on investigators from Taichung. So dang cool.

I'm about fresh out of time but I just want to testify that God hears and answers all of our prayers. We have an investigator that didn't want to come to church yesterday because it was too early. I invited her to pray and ask God to give her energy to wake up in the morning. We prayed and prayed for her and guess who showed up to church right at 9?! She did!!!! She said, "weirdest thing ever, I woke up at 7:30 and couldn't fall back asleep!" God Loves all of his children and will always help us.. I freaked out so much when I saw her:) MIRACLES.

I LOVE TAIWAN.

XXOOXOXXOXO

EMMA

Taiwan For The WIN!

Aug 7. 2016 email

Emma and Sister Eyre.

Hello my wonderful family:) I love and miss you all so much and am secretly super mad that you would all go to Jackson Lake without me. You all know that i am the life of the party. 

jkjkjk Sorry I've been working on tuning down my pride...:)

But really that's my favorite trip every and I hope you all have a blast!

This week was a good one! Started off the week by having Zone Meeting. This week was all about how we can become Successful Missionaries. hmmm. Perfect. How fitting. For reals though it was actually super duper great. I also am up to a new level in my chinese learning so I got this massive book CHUCK full of 6,000 new words... the past week has been so fun learning all sorts of new things. 

If any of you want to know how to say "Break up" it's fenshou.

:)

After Zone meeting we had exchanges again! Sister Sylvester came with me to Muzha! We had a ton of fun and met so many people. she is from Las Vegas Nevada and is an awesome missionary.

Wednesday we had english class. I've been trying to spice up my english class some more so this week we played some great games:) 

Taiwanese people are funny.

they don't want games.

They just want to learn.

Well guess what? IM THE TEACHER!

This is the flyer for free English classes.  

So we played a super fun game and they all ended up loving it. :) I'm pretty sure they all think that I am crazy, but that's ok;) The best was that everyone laughed really really hard, so that's all that matters. English class motto: If the learn something and have fun, they will come back. If they learn nothing but have fun, they will still come back. Wise words of Elder Seamons in Zhongli:)

Speaking of English class. WE had quite the miracle this week! We have a member in our ward,Wu dx, Who has a daughter that is 12 years old. Not a member. Her name is Yi Hui but her english name is Yvonne. She is the shyest person I've ever met in my whole life! So the past month has been trying to earn her trust and become her friend through english class, cause her and her dad come to my class every week. I asked her if we could come visit her and she said yes!!!!!

Friday night rolled around and we got to there house to visit them. Except........she had locked herself in her room and didn't want to come out....

NO!

So what do we do?

Write a love note and slide it under the door with a cool sticker.

What next?

We say a serious pray that Heavenly Father would help soften her heart.

Should we have switched the order of those 2 things? Probably ;) My bad. 

After a mini lesson through the door, lots of love and encouragement, we finally got her to open the door and say hello to us!! She is adorable. We gave her a Book of Mormon, said and kneeling prayer with her invited her to come to church. And guess what?

SHE DID!! 

Heavenly Father has blessed us and loves every single one of his children so much. I'm so grateful for the chance I have to be here in Taiwan and help people feel of a Heavenly Love that they've never had the chance to feel.

Such a small world!!  The Elder in the middle with glasses came up to Emma at a conference and said, "Hey are you Sister Clawson?"  He knew all about Emma and had been looking for her.  He's from Sweden and had a seminary class that was taught by our favorite Swedish friend Evelina F.! From Utah to Sweden to Taiwan!!  Wow!

Ji Pei De is doing awesome! We are going hiking with him today and are stoked! He still continues to blow me away. He's helped us with some of our lessons and has such a strong testimony! We visited him and his parents this week and they are absolutely adorable. His mom is 73 and is so spunky, just like Pei De. ahaha. And his dad is 97...he's real old..he just sat and smiled:) LOve that fam!!! 

Love you guys all so dang much:) Today is Fathers day in Taiwan So HAPPY FATHERS DAY DAD! You are the best and I love you with all my heart Mcgyver.

I'm so grateful we all have a heavenly Father that loves and is watching over all of us!!

xoxoxoxo

emma