2016: A Year in the Service January 4, 2016

This is pretty sweet, an entire calendar year in Taiwan and an entire calendar year preaching the gospel! It's a real blessing, no doubt! Elder Mitton and I have put a lot of thought and prayer in our setting of both personal and companionship goals. It's a great time to set goals because it's both the start of a new year and a new move call! Pretty much all of our goals are based on helping us increase our effectiveness as missionaries and helping us become more in tune with the spirit. Our scripture of the week was Alms 37:6. Simple things can lead to big results. It's a simple phrase! But it's true. Also, I've learned to not try to catch too many rabbits at once (not setting too many goals). That way I can really focus and hit the goals that I set. For new years we got taken to a traditional Chinese restaurant by Mr. Chao, it was super good but half of the dishes had shrimp in it which means that neither Elder Mitton or myself could eat them sadly. Mr. Chao is hilarious. He tries to speak English with us and it's awesome. Friday night we saw a super cool miracle. We set out tracting and I instantly felt like we should go down this certain street and then Elder Mitton felt like we should start at this certain house. Since it was New Years night, this couple (that usually weren't home at that time of night) happened to be home! It was a super awesome time getting to know them and then as we started sharing about the blessings of the gospel, we could feel the atmosphere of the room change. It was suddenly 15x more peaceful. God leads the way! I'm just super glad that E. Mitton and I were paying attention so we could follow. Now that all the holidays are over, we can really start to get back to work. Happy new year to all it's gonna be a great one, no doubt!!!

-潘長老

dinner with Mr. Chao