So this is Persecution?

Sorry for not writing the big letter to everyone last week! I was pretty busy with P day stuff so I didn't have enough time to write one. Last P day was really fun though! We went and played lazer tag with a bunch of people in the central zone! I was able to see Sister Fissiahi from the MTC!!(I know I spelled her name wrong, but she'd give me credit for trying haha.) I also got the inside scoop on one of her companions from the MTC. She had to return home for a knee surgery pretty early on her mission, and now she's engaged to someone! Pretty crazy, but just goes to show that there's always a happy ending! 

Elder Hyde and I were able to work really hard this week, and we saw a lot of fruit come out of it. We had some people to come to church and found some new people who want to learn. I've been the English Unit Leader in our district ever since I came to Sanchong, and now Elder Hyde is the district leader so we are busy all of the time. We are trying to get English class better because it's one of the only ways we can serve in Taiwan, plus it's a really good way to get people interested in the gospel. 

There is an Elder here who got on the Island the same time as I did and he is a master computer programmer! He made a new English class website for the mission and it's super good and professional. They are really trying to do good things with the English class, and Elder Hyde and I plus some other people in the mission are going to be Beta testing the website with finding new students. Pretty exciting stuff. Just since the website has been made we've had 18,000 visitors on the website And 400 people signed up for the class. Out of those four hundred, we have about 140 that said they want to learn about Jesus Christ. So yeah really exciting opportunities! If this goes really well, they may use this with other missions across the world. Here is the website! It's in Chinese, but you can still check it out! Taiwaneng.com

We went to the mission office a lot this week. We had to go there on exchanges with the Zone Leaders one day and that was really fun. The Zone leaders are awesome! That night we went to a park and set up a Lemonade stand to give to people and shared about how the Book of Mormon can answer questions of the soul. It was a fun activity, and they were able to get a few potentials out of it. I still can't tell the difference with Asians so I started to try to talk to someone in Chinese and I found out they are from Japan. It was really weird cause they couldn't understand English or Chinese!! So we just stood there awkwardly and then gave them a handshake and let them go. 

We also went to the mission office to have interviews with President! It was really good for me to meet with him and get his counsel on how to improve the area. We got some famous street food on the way there and ran into some other missionaries. One of the Elders told me that someone had painted "Mormons go home" on a street lamp by the temple. I thought it was hilarious because it's the first bit of "Persecution" I've seen here it made me laugh.

I also went up to Luzhou on exchanges and went with Elder Donalson. It was fun and I got to see more of their area. He got a flat tire and got it patched by someone on the street and then it got flat again so he got it fixed a second time! 

Don't want to bore you all with the details but it was a busy week and we were able to get a lot done!