Sister Lily Wardle Mission Letters: Week 55 - 五十五週 - October 20, 2025 - 龜山

大家好！

Highlights:

-Exchanges with 莊姐妹 (Sister Zhuang)! We went about doing good it was so fun! (We were in the MTC together:))

-Exchanges in 三重 (Sanchong) with Sister Price! I got some crazy humbling feedback that has caused me to the enter the deep well of self reflection

-Exchanges with Sister Ingram! We helped a dad find his son (stress) it was so cool! Sister Ingram makes it easy to follow the promptings of the spirit :)

-Blitzed 新竹 (Xinzhu) it was really fun!

-Had a fantastic mission devotional about obedience>

-蘇彥安 (Su Yan An) got baptized!! I only taught him once because we gave him to the Elders but it was still so happy :)

-We have a friend who got in a car accident a couple weeks ago who came to church! It was such an inspiring act of faith! Go Linda!

-My companions sister named her son LeGrand (this is the name of our DL so we think its pretty funny)

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The conclusion I came to this week is that I need to purify my motives.

My companion showed me song about Charity that answered a lot of my questions. The line that stands out to me the most is:

"I am nothing--Jesus, reduce me to love"

Reduce me to love! If we were all 'reduced to love', just image how fantastic that would be.

Moroni 7:

47 But charity is the pure love of Christ, and it endureth forever; and whoso is found possessed of it at the last day, it shall be well with him.

When missionary work isn't going well, I have the tendency to squeeze too hard--to want to work harder, be more obedient, have better Chinese etc. But this is not pure charity. It is not. We do not have to do more than the Lord has asked.

I decided that I must resist the natural man and be 'reduced to love'. Its not easy, but it is that simple. This is a matter of salvation.

As my good friend C.S Lewis puts it: "No half-measures will do" (Mere Christianity)

再見！

Sister 吳ardle