Finding

The title of this email is finding cause that's basically all we've been doing lately. We are trying to get our investigator pool up, so every day we go finding for about 4 hours. I think it may be starting to pay off though, cause we're getting more people's phone numbers. Some of the hardest things to do is just to go up to someone and start talking with them even though they don't have interest. It can be really awkward sometimes because they know who we are and they try to avoid us haha. Yesterday as we went out finding we had a pretty cool experience. We had just finished a contact and sat down on the side of the street to fill out some information when a lady just walked up and started staring at us. I started talking to her, and she was really friendly. She knew who we were, and she just wanted to thank us for leaving our country to preach about Jesus Christ. What was cool is that she is getting baptized into a Christian church in a week. We asked if we could meet with her and tell her more about Jesus and she said YES!! It surprised both of us so much that when we heard it we both said:"Really??" out loud. We are going to meet with her next week a day before she gets baptized. I hope the spirit will be really strong so that she will know our message is true.

 I went on exchanges with the District Leader this week so that was interesting. We taught a lesson to one of their investigators who always has A LOT of questions. When we read a few verses of scripture with her, we tried to ask her what it meant to her and she just came up with more questions. At one point in the lesson she started talking about Priesthood, and she said if we confer the priesthood onto one person, and they do the same thing, does the power get smaller and smaller? If I had 100% of the power and I gave it to another person would they only have 50% and then the next person have 25%? This was super confusing when she asked this, and imagine all of this in CHINESE. Needless to say, I had no idea what was going on. 

Something super fun but kind of dangerous in Taiwan is biking. Their is lots of traffic here; cars, buses, and scooters. People don't usually obey the traffic laws, so you just have to be careful not to get hit. Bikes are on the lowest part of the Traffic Food Chain. People don't respect you at all. We are usually out at night too, buzzing past cars and scooters and it gets pretty crazy. It's super fun though, and other than that, Taiwan is one of the safest countries there is.

If you haven't already heard the news, Taiwan is getting smartphones. They are making sure that it is just a tool to further the work though. We are going to have lots of controls put on the phones. The main reason is to digitize all of the area book, and planning records and get in better contact with our investigators. They keep stressing that the work will stay the same, we are just getting another tool. We won't be getting Facebook or Messenger. It will be interesting though.

Don't have much to write this week cause I forgot most of it. I've been keeping a pretty good Journal, but my zone leaders have my journal, and they forgot to give it back to me so I'll have to try to catch up on 6 days!!