Hey everyone!! The first week of the year was pretty great! Last P day I was able to go to a mountain and hike with a bunch of missionaries. We just do a bunch of hiking in Taiwan haha. It was nice because I was able to see a bunch of missionaries and one of my best mission buddy's Elder Cheung. We spent the day together and had some fun.
This week was pretty cool. It is Elder Welch's last full week as a missionary. We wanted to be able to hit the key indicators so we worked really hard. The key indicators are 4 new investigators, 4 investigators at church, and 4 people who have a baptismal date. We tried to find new people and we were able to do a lot because we had the goal. We found a guy at McDonald's who saw us and saw that we were really happy so he talked to us. We ended up having a lesson with him a few days later. Yesterday was probably the craziest day of the week. We set up lessons with three investigators back to back, and had a lesson with a less active member at his house. It was super busy, but we were able to have good lessons with everyone and then go to Luzhou for an activity. We ended up eating dinner later that night cause we didn't have time.
We found a place in a big park to do some exercise with the district. It is like 4 miles away from our house, so we have to wake up extra early and then bike there. The Sister's don't usually come, but we have the Elders and a few members come with us. It got a little competitive during a soccer game and one of the members who is a girl tripped over me and got a big bruise on her leg. At church today she was telling everyone what I did haha. They just aren't used to competitive Americans haha.
On Monday I had the longest hair I've ever had before. As I started to cut it though, I did something crazy. I BUZZED ALL OF MY HAIR!!! I felt like I needed to learn to be more humble because I would always get a lot of looks from people. The thing is, I buzzed my hair and now I'm pretty much bald. I thought it was really funny though. As I was at church today, people couldn't believe it was me and they kept just laughing hahaha. I guess it helps improve the relations with the members and the missionaries haha. People would always tell me I looked like someone from One Direction or Justin Beiber, but now so many people think I look like Eminem the rapper. Haha it's pretty hilarious. I just didn't want to care about my appearance too much, so I did this instead!
We saw a really cool miracle this week too! The Sister's ran into an old man on the street and he recognized them as missionaries. They talked to him and showed him where the church was and he lives super close. The Sister's passed him off to us as someone who might want to learn the gospel. When we met with him though, he kept saying:"I've already been baptized," we have heard the same thing over and over again, so we were dreading teaching him for a bit. When we started teaching him though, we realized he was already a member of the church! He had been baptized into the church over 15 years ago in Germany. He really loved it, but they taught him in German cause no one knew Chinese. He moved back to Taiwan, but didn't know where the church was so he didn't come back. As we taught him about the Restoration, he was super happy. He told us that this is the first time he's been able to hear it in his native language. We asked him to start praying and reading the scriptures every day again and he was super willing. He said of course. We invited him to church, and he was there starting to get to know the ward. It was a miracle. He told us that he always knew he would come back someday. And the Lord brought him back.
Anyways this is just some of the things that happened this week. I hope we can all read the scriptures and pray every day to strengthen our relationship with Heavenly Father. He truly cares about us, and will always help us return to the thing that is best for us.
Enjoy your week! Love you all!
-Elder Thayne
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