母親節快樂

Happy Mother's day!!!

I hope everyone was able to do something for their Mother! I really appreciate mine!

I was able to talk to my family last night and it made me realize how much I really do miss them. This is the first mother's day I've had where I haven't been able to tell my Mom I love her in person, but I was still able to feel the love coming from them as we talked. Elder Fernandes and I always forget to buy food on Saturday so when Sunday comes around we don't have food! Good thing we can fast haha. But it makes me really appreciate at home that I have a Mom who makes sure we always have something to eat. The food is there. So I really appreciate her and my family as a whole.

The cookie party for English class was a success! And that's saying a lot because taiwanese don't like to eat sweet foods. It was funny because a few of the Beginner class students came in to our class to see what was going on, and then they just stayed and enjoyed all of our cookies! Everyone thought it was fun, and the cookies turned out really good! 

We went and played Billiards (pool) with our main investigator this week. He's super awesome. He is doing everything we tell him to, but he keeps telling us he isn't getting the answer he's looking for that God Exists. We are trying to help him the most we can, but what it really comes down to is his personal commitment and desire to find the truth. He is attending this club that is another religion and so he's pretty confused about which one to go full in on. I have faith that he knows what we are teaching him is true though, and he'll see the blessings in his life soon. Pool was fun, but by the time we left and got back home, all of our clothes stank from all the tobacco smoke we were around. The other Elders were pretty confused when they smelled us at the end of the day

We had a really big miracle one night which was awesome!! We ate dinner inside that night and before we left the house, we prayed that we would find the prepared people we needed to that day, and then we left. That whole night we ran into so many people that we knew. We saw an investigator of the other Elder's. We saw two former investigators at the college campus. We also found a French exchange student that we have been trying to set up for awhile, and then to finish off the night we saw our investigator that we played pool with. It was way too many people that we knew to be a coincidence. I knoe that God directed us that day to the people that needed to hear that we still love them and so does God. He never forgets his children and now I know that for sure because I've seen it first hand. God loves us all and wants us to be happy. If we will come unto him, he can show us the way. 

Have a great Mother's day everyone! I love you all.

-Elder Thayne