Good day again!
Being in Taizhong is great! We get special devotionals from General Authorities. Last Saturday we had Brother and Sister Jones(Primary General President) and Elder and Sister Meurs.
They gave a wonderful lesson to us that I would like to share. You might have to refer to the picture below!
So we have a graph here that has the X and Y axis. The X axis represents spiritual efforts. And the Y axis represents the blessings.
I invite you all to also discuss as a family or think personally what are some spiritual efforts we can do.
So we discussed and listed some things like Praying (sincere prayer), Testifying, Repenting, Studying the scriptures and other things you can think of that needs effort.
Now we can look at the Y axis or the blessings. As you can see in the graph the more we give out our effort, the bigger the blessing is.
This week was pretty crazy. Our friend who had a baptism date on the Saturday. And two days before the baptism he decided to cancel it because his parents did not sign the papers.
So we were going nuts. We invited members to pray for him and I've never asked this kind of thing to Heavenly Father. But the day before his baptism his parents signed it. Our prayers were answered! He was so happy!
Then on Sunday we went to the office to do some paper works from the baptism then as we were walking back to the chapel we saw this dude hang himself! So crazy! So we ran and helped the other missionaries trying to stop him. I've heard that it was his first time to come to church and he asked money but wasn't very happy that the church wouldn't give him money and so he decided to hang himself. 
He's okay though. Sorry to end the email on a sad note haha
Anyways I want to share to you all a poem that I really like.
What win I, if I gain the thing I seek?
A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy.
Who buys a minute’s mirth to wail a week?
Or sells eternity to get a toy?
For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy?
Love you all! Enjoy the week 
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