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Re-reassignment

 大家好! As most of you know I got a new reassignment this week. I'm now going to the California Oakland/San Francisco Mission! I'm super excited because there will be a lot more opportunities to use and practice Chinese. I'm also glad it won't be as cold as Denver haha. I'm now leaving on Nov 24 which was my original date to leave. It's good for me because I didn't know what I was going to do for the week where I had no MTC or anything. Still so crazy that I'll finally be heading out in a little over two weeks. Also, all the other missionaries from my district that live in Utah got reassigned to Oakland. The other four that are out of state all got assigned to Utah missions so we think it has to do something with our visas.

The visa lady emailed most of us who live in Utah and told us to get the final parts of our visa done. We had to do some medical stuff at the BYU Health Center and now that that's finished they are processing our visas! I'm still not sure how long it'll take but we think we all got reassigned to Oakland because it's an easier flight out to Taiwan. I'm 很兴奋 (very excited) that I'll be going to Taiwan pretty soon. It's been crazy with all the reassignments and not knowing what's happening but I have full faith that wherever I go will be amazing.

This week me and Jackson 长老 got to lead another Book of Mormon read. During my personal study, I was looking for a chapter we could read and I came across Alma 24. It's when the Lamanites are preparing to attack the Anti-Nephi-Lehis and they make their covenant to bury their weapons of war. There were so many interesting things I found and thoughts I had. I think one of the craziest things I learned was that the Antis made their covenant when they knew the Lamanites were preparing to come against them. I always thought they had made it long before so they had no desire to dig up their weapons, but with the knowledge that they were about to be attacked they all decided to put down their weapons of war and instead thank God for their blessings. This is such a powerful story for me in the importance of keeping my covenants. They would rather die in faith than live in the sin of killing their brethren, even if there was a just cause. I know we will be blessed in the Kingdom of Heaven when we keep the covenants we have made with God.


我爱你们!

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