Because He Lives!

Grave Sweeping - these next couple weeks is "Grave sweeping here" It's kind of a holiday. More of a superstition. 4 is an unlucky number in Chinese because it sounds like the word death. On the 4th day of the 4th month they all go and clean the graves so that their ancestor's don't get mad. So yeah, and around this time they eat spring rolls; powdered sugar, crushed peanuts, and vegetables and meat in a wrap thing (at least that's how the Taiwanese do it) Yum!

Hot Pot - This week we went with some college girls to eat hot pot, Yum!

Movie Night fail... Yeah.... we were planning a movie night for like 2 weeks and inviting a bunch of people and then the day of the one person we had confirmed to come canceled on us... Sad.

Teaching the Ward - This week we had an opportunity during church to talk to our ward about missionary work and help them with it (we taught the 5th Sunday combined 3rd hour). It was great!

People here don't know what Easter is, even more than they don't know what Christmas is. But I think it's fitting that their "Grave Sweeping" is so close to Easter. Christ overcame the grave. He lives. And because He lives, we all will too. We don't have to fear death, we don't have to mourn the loss of loved ones; we will see them again. As we come to learn of Him and accept Him as our Savior, we can better understand how he can save us, physically and spiritually. If you haven't seen it go online and look at the new Easter video on lds.org. I know through His grace and through our effort we can receive redemption as well as the resurrection.

Have a Happy Easter!!!

-Sister Biancardi

PS - Saturday and Sunday go online or to a local church building and watch God's living prophet and apostles speak to us! :D