Sister Lily Wardle Mission Letters: Week 66 六十六週 - January 5, 2026

ㄉㄚㄐㄧㄚㄏㄠ! (Hello Everyone - in Bopomofo)

Highlights

-I deleted the pinyin keyboard off of my phone--we are Taiwanㄖㄣ(People)

-Went to 6 week follow up! (Great start to the new year)

-Exchange with 林姐妹 (Sister Lin)!!! Got to see Linda and 辛媽 (Mom Xin) and 田姐妹 (Sister Tian). mwa

-2 請客s (Member Meals)! Shoutout 竹三 (Xinzhu 3rd) Bishop and 劉弟兄 (Brother Liu)

-Lost my companions a couple times (biking in a trio unlocked)

-My brother met Frank?

-Went to try and visit a 不見的 (Missing) RC and ended up door knocking and found a cool friend!

READ THIS PART

In light of the Old Testament:

Jeremiah 31:

33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

I LOVE the fact that covenant relationships with God can literally change us.

There's a C.S Lewis quote I'll paraphrase because I don't have the exact quote but here's a summary:

~Whenever we make a choice, we are literally changing the part of us on the inside that chooses~

This is #1

Why we are never on neutral ground; every choice we make chips away at the thing-that-chooses-part-of-us into a sculpture based on the choice.

And #2

Why covenants are so powerful!

When we make a covenant with God, it unlocks another choice. A choice to keep the covenant!

Everytime we make the choice to keep our covenant, it's like an extra strong, professional God-level stone smith can polish us and chip at us until we have become Gods 'peculiar treasure'.

We haven't unlocked the choice to keep a covenant until the covenant has been made!

Covenants do not exist to make us people obedient to a specific set of rules, but to make us into people of a particular sort. (Also paraphrased from C.S. Lewis)

I'm so grateful for my covenants. They will perfect us. What a blessing it is to be refined and perfected by God.

再見！

Sister 吳ardle