September 24 Letter--Labor Day

Hello!

Wow! This week has been amazing! This is probably my best move-call yet. At the 
beginning of the move-call, I told Sister Price (I love her!) that I wanted to 
make this my best move-call yet and it has turned into that and it is only the 
middle of week 2! 

There is an investigator here named Amy. She is an amazing woman. She comes to 
church every week and brings her son. But she was in a really bad relationship 
and came out of the marriage hating men. She has been coming to church for about 
6 months. We met with her this week and had her son bear testimony to her about 
how much he needed this church. After his testimony we told her we would be 
referring her son to the Elders so he could get baptized before her because 
well, he needed to get baptized.  She said no. She hates men and likes women. We 
said yes or her option was to have an interview with President Liu and be 
baptized with Vincent. She did the interview and committed to everything. She is 
willing to change everything. But she would not commit to baptize. We went over 
to her house on Monday night and hit her pretty strong with scriptures! And told 
her would we call tomorrow to see what time was better 7 or 7:30 for her 
baptism. Well, Tuesday comes and I call her and she says no I am not going to be 
baptized on Saturday.And then she goes on to say when is the earliest you can do 
it? Well, because we had the temple trip today and tomorrow is zone conference 
she and her son will be baptized on Friday night. So  it should be a good 
weekend. Friday night baptize and Sunday after church another baptism! I am so 
thankful.

I know that Heavenly Father is blessing me so much. My health hasn't been 
better, my faith has been better, and I have never seen more miracles than this 
move-call. Heavenly Father is really helping me achieve my goal of going out 
running. Just wish I had a few more move-calls of this pace left! I'll just have 
work really really hard! And not waste the blessings that Heavenly Father has in 
store.

Mom, today was our temple trip and I think that would be so good of you to offer 
babysitting. I will babysit when I get home for them, but it won't be for 
awhile. The temple today was an amazing experience. It gave me so much peace and 
comfort. I am not going to lie I am terrified of coming home and it just gave me 
the peace of mind that I needed. Before the mission, any serious choice I was 
faced with I pretty much said, oh that doesn't matter I am going on a mission. 
Now I am going to go home and not be able to have that little scape route. I am 
going to have to be serious. Ha ha! No more playing except every other day. Baby 
steps, right?

Funny story: my companion just dyed my hair and we decided we would come e-mail 
while we are waiting for the dye to do its job. So we came into the e-mail store 
and a girl was helping us. She casually said oh you are dying her hair. And then 
the teenage boy standing next to her BURST OUT INTO HYSTERICAL LAUGHTER! He 
thought that it was the funniest thing ever. So now I am sitting here in the 
little cap e-mailing you all. And they all think it is so entertaining. So I 
guess I haven't changed much! Still giving everyone a good laugh!

Tomorrow is zone conference and I am doing my death talk. I am not excited. 
Every missionary that goes home gets to share a five minute talk at zone 
conference. I have no idea what I am going to say! That isn't my idea of fun. I 
will probably just bear my testimony. And call that good. Don't know if my 
testimony will last five minutes though... probably a little shorter. My goal is 
not to get handed the time card. So I will just have to talk extra fast and pray 
for the translators! Translating is so so hard!

Well, we had another typhoon this week. It wasn't too bad. But funny story... 
Sister Price and I were attempting to ride our bikes. We were being blown off 
and barely moving forward. A man on a scooter passed us and yelled "HELLL-YO" at 
us which is normal so we didn't think much of it. We kept pedalling and were 
slowly making progress. We made it about five more houses and the scooter man 
was standing out in the road with juice boxes. One in each hand with his arms 
out. So as we rode by he yelled keep going and handed off these juice boxes to 
us. So we got these free juice boxes! It probably was pretty entertaining to 
watch! This Chinese man standing in the road with both arms out and these two 
white girls ride by and grab juice boxes out of his hands... haha. I love the 
Taiwanese people!

So I hope everything is good in the States. Everything is good in Taiwan. I am 
excited to be a missionary! YEP!

I love you all!
Miss you!

Sister Shaver