This week was actually pretty awesome! For all those who are wondering; my hair is growing slowly but surely! I had some Elders come up to me and tell me they have respect for me cause I cut my hair. Also Shoutout to the Lynch's and the Jonson's Northrup's and everyone else for sending me stuff! You guys are amazing!!
Last P day we went up to the top of a mountain with the zone leaders and Rui Cong. It was crazy cause we saw snow!!! There wasn't much, but it was pretty awesome seeing snow in a sub tropical climate! The really funny thing is that the police were telling everyone they needed to put chaines on their tires because of the snow, but being from Utah it was hilarious. There was like a half inch of snow in the deepest parts and people were acting like they were going on a Klondike! It was so funny. I guess most of them hadn't seen snow before so I can't judge them.🤣
Last P day we went up to the top of a mountain with the zone leaders and Rui Cong. It was crazy cause we saw snow!!! There wasn't much, but it was pretty awesome seeing snow in a sub tropical climate! The really funny thing is that the police were telling everyone they needed to put chaines on their tires because of the snow, but being from Utah it was hilarious. There was like a half inch of snow in the deepest parts and people were acting like they were going on a Klondike! It was so funny. I guess most of them hadn't seen snow before so I can't judge them.🤣
We also had an earthquake this week which some people were freaking out about. It was a 6.0 that hit in Hualien which is on the east coast. I've been there before on a P day actually. I was on exchanges up late talking to Elder Donalson when I felt it. The apartment building I was in was moving side to side so that was fun! If an earthquake like that hit Taipei city tons of building would fall over. Taipei is in a bowl, and the soil is kind of wet, so hopefully we don't get an earthquake here.
So our investigator Brother Chen had a really cool experience. Every year at the end of the year, companies will hold a party for their workers and do a raffle. Our investigator told the members that he had never won it before and he really wanted to. He said he prayed to Heavenly Father and then he won 1st prize!! He won 20,000元。It's pretty insane, but he's super happy and knows it's from God. I'm not saying it works for everyone haha, but it worked for him!!!
A really cool miracle happened. We had some extra time one day so we went to a few less active members homes to make sure the church had their correct home address. We were biking around and the people weren't home, but we were talking to people on the street a lot. As we talked to them, they just kept telling us to go find the young people because they will actually listen to us. People kept telling us, but we talked to as many people as we could. We had an appointment with someone though so we started on our way back home. About halfway home I got a call from the person we were about to meet with saying that he couldn't meet anymore cause his work was moving to a different workplace. So we turned around and biked back close to where we were. The person we were looking for wasn't there so we started on our way to get closer to our house. As I was biking there was an old guy on the street(by the way there are always old people out and about here walking and buying food and stuff) I just said hi expecting nothing to come out of it when he said hi back. We pulled out bikes over and asked if we could share a message about Jesus Christ with him and he said sure! It's super weird to hear that, but he unlocked the door to the apartment building and brought us to the roof to meet his son. It was super funny when he brought us to him cause his son wasn't expecting us at all. The apartment was super messy and we just sat down inside. Once we had all got situated his dad just said:“ you guys can just talk and I'm going to my apartment,” it was super random cause he hair left us to talk to his son. His son was kind of in a trap haha, he couldn't really tell us to leave cause his Dad was the one who brought us there. He was just folding laundry so we sat and shared the Restoration of the Gospel with him. His wife came out to go buy groceries and was super surprised to see us there! The husband just said one word to explain:“摩爾門教,"(Mormons). It was funny. It was a really cold experience though because all that stuff happened with perfect timing. If all of the stuff didn't happen before then the son wouldn't have listened to our message, or got the opportunity to. I could tell that it was only in that setting that it would be possible for him to accept us and listen. The Lord has amazing ways for gathering his children.
So yeah that was basically my week!
Here are some pictures!!
-Elder Grayson Thayne
So our investigator Brother Chen had a really cool experience. Every year at the end of the year, companies will hold a party for their workers and do a raffle. Our investigator told the members that he had never won it before and he really wanted to. He said he prayed to Heavenly Father and then he won 1st prize!! He won 20,000元。It's pretty insane, but he's super happy and knows it's from God. I'm not saying it works for everyone haha, but it worked for him!!!
A really cool miracle happened. We had some extra time one day so we went to a few less active members homes to make sure the church had their correct home address. We were biking around and the people weren't home, but we were talking to people on the street a lot. As we talked to them, they just kept telling us to go find the young people because they will actually listen to us. People kept telling us, but we talked to as many people as we could. We had an appointment with someone though so we started on our way back home. About halfway home I got a call from the person we were about to meet with saying that he couldn't meet anymore cause his work was moving to a different workplace. So we turned around and biked back close to where we were. The person we were looking for wasn't there so we started on our way to get closer to our house. As I was biking there was an old guy on the street(by the way there are always old people out and about here walking and buying food and stuff) I just said hi expecting nothing to come out of it when he said hi back. We pulled out bikes over and asked if we could share a message about Jesus Christ with him and he said sure! It's super weird to hear that, but he unlocked the door to the apartment building and brought us to the roof to meet his son. It was super funny when he brought us to him cause his son wasn't expecting us at all. The apartment was super messy and we just sat down inside. Once we had all got situated his dad just said:“ you guys can just talk and I'm going to my apartment,” it was super random cause he hair left us to talk to his son. His son was kind of in a trap haha, he couldn't really tell us to leave cause his Dad was the one who brought us there. He was just folding laundry so we sat and shared the Restoration of the Gospel with him. His wife came out to go buy groceries and was super surprised to see us there! The husband just said one word to explain:“摩爾門教,"(Mormons). It was funny. It was a really cold experience though because all that stuff happened with perfect timing. If all of the stuff didn't happen before then the son wouldn't have listened to our message, or got the opportunity to. I could tell that it was only in that setting that it would be possible for him to accept us and listen. The Lord has amazing ways for gathering his children.
So yeah that was basically my week!
Here are some pictures!!
-Elder Grayson Thayne
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