Happy Easter Week!

Taiwan Taipei Temple

Happy Easter! This week was a good one! 

On Tuesday we were Temple Tours Sisters, which is so fun!! The temple here is so symbolic and beautiful. I want to share with you some facts about the Taiwan Taipei temple.

Trees: The palm trees are really symbolic. In the front there are three palm trees separate from the rest. These three represent the First Presidency of the church. Then there are twelve other palm trees and these represent the Quorum of the Twelve apostles.

Pillars: There are six pillars, Three at the front and three at the back. The three at the front represent the Melchizedek Priesthood, and the three in the back represent the Aaronic Priesthood. 

Roof: The roof of the temple is blue in respect for local traditions and culture. It complements the nearby Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall. 

Me at Chiang Kai-Shek 

Angel Moroni: The Moroni on the temple is especially unique. Because it is the only one that faces west not east. The reason being that China is to the west and has not been open to missionary work. How cool is that? 

Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall

We went on exchanges to Beitou. It was close to the mountains and it was so pretty. (I forgot my camera so I didn't get any pictures..) My Sister Training Leader asked me to make former calls. Which was super scary and took me off guard because I hadn't talked on the phone in Chinese yet. But I did it. This girl answered one of my calls and I told her who I was, and asked her if she had met with the missionaries before, and then asked if we could meet with her again sometime soon! She said "jintain?" (today) I was taken by surprise so all I said was "keyi" (can) She said the time when she could meet then started speaking really fast so I threw the phone at my STL( Sister Training Leader). hahaha. We ended up meeting with her a couple hours later! And guess what! She set a baptism date. She also said I was too skinny to play soccer, that my family is huge (tall brothers) and I could be a pageant girl. But that's beside the point. I was reading  her old progress record from a year ago. The missionaries that taught her last lesson wrote " maybe she will be ready in the future" Wow. God's timing is perfect and he really does prepare his children. I am sad that I won't be the one to continue teaching her but my sister training leaders are awesome :)  I have had many miracles this week that being one of the many! 

Since it's Easter back in Utah, HAPPY EASTER. I hope you all had a good Easter Sunday and got to reflect on our Savior Jesus Christ. I know my Savior lives! I am so grateful that I have that knowledge and that I get to share it with others! (we went around saying "happy resurrection day!" and handing out cards that had the link to the Easter video that I still haven't seen) And Sister Valenzuela got the Gift of the Holy Ghost which is super special! 

Have a good week everyone! Thanks for the love!

Our investigator gave us a box of doughnuts
for giving him a Book of Mormon :-)

There are lots of fruit stands and the fruit is wonderful!

More mornings with the am mas :)

Me in Beitou with this huge asian man statue that was randomly there.
(excuse my wet, helmet hair lol) 

They were feeding birds so I tried it lol