Taiwan

 Ni Hao Everyone, Well, I finally made it to Taiwan and it's amazing! I feel so privileged to be serving in this beautiful place! I didn't get to take a bunch of pictures of the city or country because we've been a little busy. I'll be sure to send some that I have though, because it is awesome over here. Right now I'm serving in Tainan, which actually means, south Taiwan, so as the name implies, I'm in the bottom part of Taiwan. We're in the city. It's a little smaller than Taichung, but it's still a fairly big city. It's crazy to ride around on your bike through the streets. There are tons of little motorbikes all over the place! Literally thousands of them! They always weave their way through the traffic and I've almost been hit many times already haha. (maybe I shouldn't say that...I don't want to scare you. I'm actually fine, don't worry) Taiwan is so different from the US, and I couldn't write down all the cool t...

  Well the time has finally arrived! I got my visa, and I'll be leaving for Taiwan tomorrow morning at 8:30am. I'm so excited to finally be leaving and going to a new country! Especially because it's starting to get really cold here and I'm already tired of it haha. Hopefully the weather will be a lot warmer over there. I think it will definitely be warmer than 0 degrees with the windchill like it is over here. And hopefully I won't have to wear my suits anymore! Actually it's not to bad wearing them. I guess I've gotten used to wearing them so they don't feel uncomfortable anymore.   I ran into Bishop Hale's dad after we finished with the Summerwood meeting and I didn't even know who he was until he asked if my bishop back home was doing a good job. Luckily I said that he was doing a great job haha. I've also talked with the Marshells who lived in our ward a while back. It's nice that I've seen so many people here, but I doubt t...

Dear Family and Friends, I want to start off by wishing Mom a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! It's amazing to think that 29 years ago you were born. Time flies! Pretty soon I'm going to be older than you though haha. Hopefully tomorrow will be a nice day for you so you can enjoy your birthday. It's certainly getting cold over here and I'm not enjoying it at all!      Other than the weather, things are going very well here. We took C... and her kids J... and Z... to church and they loved it. C... is still wanting to be baptized and she is awesome. She had lots of input and questions during class at church, and she seemed excited to come back. Hopefully that will make Z... more comfortable and want to be baptized. She is a little scared and hasn't wanted to, but that's alright. She just needs to get used to things for a while.   We also took W... to church. She really enjoyed it too. The whole time during sacrament meeting, she was wiping tears from her eyes. She...

  Well this week is transfers and it looks like I will be staying here for at least another 6 weeks! This is a great area so I'm glad that I'm staying. Unfortunately my companion is leaving for Kaysville. I'm really going to miss my companion because we worked really well together and got along great. We also were getting a lot done, but I guess there's other work to be done for him. Our roommate, Elder Palhegyi is getting transferred too, but Elder Firpo is staying.      That's so exciting that Tim got his mission call to Portugal. He will have a great mission!      I talked to the doctor yesterday and he said that I would probably be fine to wear contacts again. He didn't check my eyes or anything but he said it's been long enough. Hopefully they'll be alright.      It was a lot of fun teaching the exchange students from Taiwan. It's too bad they've already gone back home because it would be nice to be able to te...