Okay so it's only been 5 days since my last email, but I have a few things I can write from this week. It's been a very busy week full of traveling and other things. We've gone to the Mission home 5 times in the past seven days for things, so it's been pretty busy. We went for interviews with President, meetings for English class, a piano practice and now a fireside from last night. It's been busy, but good! It's also been really cold here this week! The teachers in the MTC said it wasn't going to get cold... We checked the weather one day and it was 8℃ here and 11℃ in Salt Lake City. And that's not even accounting for the humidity and the rain. It's actually been pretty chilly. All of the Taiwanese people think that America is so much colder because it snows, but Taiwan is cold too, it's just different.
Something cool that happened this week is we were going around 三重 trying to figure out if some members lived in the apartments that were on the records. We walked up to a door that had another wooden door behind it. We knocked on the metal outer door pretty hard and no one answered. We tried it a few more times and no one came. I thought I heard someone move though, so I was able to squeeze my hand through the metal door and push the wooden door behind it. It opened and then a man from the Philippines came to the door and talked to us. We asked him if we could come back another day and talk to him about Jesus Christ and he said yes! Hopefully he'll set up a time with us!
We were able to get Elder Hyde's Bike fixed which was good. He refused my free services and got it done by a professional instead haha.
English class was good this week. I got a few new ideas for how to teach my class better cause we really want to teach them English. A few new kids came that I found on the street and they seem pretty cool. They just live in another area!! They live in 淡水 my old area!! But they were nice, and they should be good referrals if they want to be taught.
We have also started up this Book of Mormon class every Thursday for people to come to. Both members and our investigators. We just want to help people better understand the Book of Mormon and how important it is to everyone's conversion. We had one investigator come and we also had a bunch of members there. We talked about Nephi and his brothers going back to get the plates. We had a really good discussion and our investigator really liked it. He's brother Chen. He is 43 and super awesome. He dresses super well and he looks like he just turned 30. He's super healthy and really happy all the time. I met him on the street with Elder Welch and he's progressing super well. He's also really funny. So yeah he liked the class!
We went into a Hi Life one night and met a man playing cards by himself. We talked to him for a bit and found out that he is homeless. He's only 65 years old, but he has no job and he doesn't want one. We taught him for a bit and then tried to help him find somewhere to sleep cause it was cold. He had just made some bad choices and didn't have money to live anywhere. He wouldn't accept help though because he doesn't want people knowing he's poor. It's hard and sad, but he doesn't understand how things can help him. I hope he will learn later.
Something cool that happened this week is we were going around 三重 trying to figure out if some members lived in the apartments that were on the records. We walked up to a door that had another wooden door behind it. We knocked on the metal outer door pretty hard and no one answered. We tried it a few more times and no one came. I thought I heard someone move though, so I was able to squeeze my hand through the metal door and push the wooden door behind it. It opened and then a man from the Philippines came to the door and talked to us. We asked him if we could come back another day and talk to him about Jesus Christ and he said yes! Hopefully he'll set up a time with us!
We were able to get Elder Hyde's Bike fixed which was good. He refused my free services and got it done by a professional instead haha.
English class was good this week. I got a few new ideas for how to teach my class better cause we really want to teach them English. A few new kids came that I found on the street and they seem pretty cool. They just live in another area!! They live in 淡水 my old area!! But they were nice, and they should be good referrals if they want to be taught.
We have also started up this Book of Mormon class every Thursday for people to come to. Both members and our investigators. We just want to help people better understand the Book of Mormon and how important it is to everyone's conversion. We had one investigator come and we also had a bunch of members there. We talked about Nephi and his brothers going back to get the plates. We had a really good discussion and our investigator really liked it. He's brother Chen. He is 43 and super awesome. He dresses super well and he looks like he just turned 30. He's super healthy and really happy all the time. I met him on the street with Elder Welch and he's progressing super well. He's also really funny. So yeah he liked the class!
We went into a Hi Life one night and met a man playing cards by himself. We talked to him for a bit and found out that he is homeless. He's only 65 years old, but he has no job and he doesn't want one. We taught him for a bit and then tried to help him find somewhere to sleep cause it was cold. He had just made some bad choices and didn't have money to live anywhere. He wouldn't accept help though because he doesn't want people knowing he's poor. It's hard and sad, but he doesn't understand how things can help him. I hope he will learn later.
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| Pics are us in Mormon Helping hands shirts. |
The whole Taibei Central zone was asked to do a service project in Taibei for feeding the homeless. All of us missionaries went to help set up tables and chairs and decorations for 2,000 tables and 10,000 chairs. We set them up and tents and it was pretty fun getting to do something different. We were there for 6 hours so it was good. On the way back while we were on the MRT we were talking to some Elders and missed our stop for 三重 so we had to get off at the next one. We got off and two Black foreigners got off as well. They had pretty good hair, and I remembered my friend Elder Fernandes was looking for a place to do a lineup (the people in Taiwan don't know how to cut his hair so it's been a struggle haha). So I went up and asked them where they got their hair done. I got a guy's contact info and we talked to the two guys. They were really cool and were from the Caribbean teaching English. Hopefully they will set up and we can start teaching them!
But yeah that was basically my week. The fireside last night was great. I got to be with a lot of my missionary friends, and the people I know in my ward now. We haven't gotten very far into the lessons with Brother Chen, so when someone bore their testimony about abstaining from coffee and tea he was astonished haha. He couldn't believe it, but I told him we'd teach him later haha! Don't wanna get too ahead of ourselves! At the end of the fireside he told us that he felt like he needs to be a better person. I was pretty happy, last night was a really good night.
But yeah that was basically my week. The fireside last night was great. I got to be with a lot of my missionary friends, and the people I know in my ward now. We haven't gotten very far into the lessons with Brother Chen, so when someone bore their testimony about abstaining from coffee and tea he was astonished haha. He couldn't believe it, but I told him we'd teach him later haha! Don't wanna get too ahead of ourselves! At the end of the fireside he told us that he felt like he needs to be a better person. I was pretty happy, last night was a really good night.
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