Sister Nicole Scharman: December is Hot and Sunny?

Hey friends!

Yuli Hospital

I want to first start off telling you about our morning.. We woke up really early and started packing our house because we are moving down to the floor below us! Packing has been so hard because there have been missionaries in our apartment for over 10 years.. and they have left a lot of junk. We are the lucky ones who get to clean it out :) Our new apartment is absolutely gorgeous so I am not complaining.

Then we went to a GI doctor and scheduled my upper endoscopy for tomorrow. (I will be awake for it yay) We then went and got lunch, and headed home. But on the way home my companion stopped to talk to someone and they grabbed her food off of her handle bars and walked away lol. The lady needed it more... I guess.

Going to the hospitals here in Yuli have been quite the experience, and good finding opportunities. Me and my companion are becoming good friends with all the Ama's. 99% of the people in the hospital are Ama's, and the other 1% is me and my companion lol. (Ama's are Grandmas)

We have been sharing the #LightTheWorld video like candy! I get so excited to watch it every time. It's so magical. Especially since it doesn't feel like Christmas is in two weeks. There are no Christmas lights, no snow, and it's still 80 degrees outside. I hope you all are able to participate in it :)

DING JIEMEI PASSED HER INTERVIEW!!! You don't even know how happy I am. We are so excited. Satan really has been working hard on her.. like really hard. But she is so strong. She is super excited to get baptized! We had a really amazing lesson where we got to see the spirit working with her. I know I was supposed to meet Ding JM, not so I could teach her, but so I could learn from her! Here in Yuli we have no special baptismal font, we have the famous blue tub. Its a small baby pool. Since Ding Jm is very tall, we have planned a very pretty place outside. Perks of it being warm and sunny here :)

This week we also met with our American investigator! She brought her friend! (who is also American) (Americans in Yuli are a rare find) And we had the coolest lesson. We really got to know them and their religious background and how they came to know that God was their Heavenly Father. We all really connected so well, and I loved hearing about how Heavenly Father has blessed them through every part of their lives. It's fun to testify in English!

I have witnessed a lot of Buddhist parades here in Yuli, but recently there has been a ton! They basically take HUGE statues of their gods and parade them around the street while playing loud music and yelling stuff. We even had one going on right outside our church building during sacrament meeting a few Sundays ago.

Well, this week we have been continuing to see miracles. I am really grateful I am able to testify of my Savior. He is my best friend and I find joy while sharing His gospel.

Thank you all so much for the prayers, and all of the love. They mean the world to me and help me more than you know! I haven't emailed you all back. But know that I love and appreciate every single one of you.

Sister Scharman

1 Ding JM and her Book of Mormon :-)