Taiwan

Hey Everybody,   First of all I want to start out by wishing Alexa a very Happy Birthday!! You're already 16!! That's too old! It seems unreal that you're old enough to drive on your own! Make sure you don't wreck the car! Hey how is everyone doing back home? I'm sorry to hear about all the cold weather you've been having. It get's a little miserable after a while. But it's always nice to get a break from school! You only had one day of school last week!? That's crazy. That's a pretty good week though. Those weeks are the best.   So ya, the new missionaries should be able to come to Taiwan this coming week. It's about time! They've been waiting in the US for about 4 months or so and are probably so excited to finally make it here. I hope that means that the visa problem will be resolved permenately. It's really going to mess up the swing of things in the mission here later on.   Well this past week was Chinese New Year! W...

  Hello Everybody!     I hope everyone is doing well! I'm sorry to hear that the weather is so miserable back home. If it makes you feel any better, pretty soon I'll be miserable too with all the humidity that is coming my way! Yeah I'm not too excited about that.     This week started off a lot like last week. Every lesson that we had planned canceled on us until Friday. We just basically tracted and talked to people on the streets for most of the time. It's really hard to actually find anyone to teach now because GuoNian, Chinese New Year is coming up this week. Everyone is really busy and going to be out of town with family. Then the last three days we had a ton of lessons and hardly had any time to rest. I wish that they would space themselves out throughout the week, but I'm not complaining about having lessons.     We taught F... the Word of Wisdom and he was a little reluctant at first to give up drinking. He said that he ...

  Well it's been a pretty cold week here in Tainan. The wind is really blowing hard, and the skies have been pretty overcast. It's not too bad during the day with my rain coat on, but riding home at night is the worst! I'm not going to complain too much though, because I'll probably miss the cold when it's the middle of the summer and everyday my clothes are completely soaked with sweat haha.   This week was pretty good. The majority of our lessons got cancelled though so that was sad. On Friday, we had 3 lessons in a row cancel or just not show up. So we just had to go out and tract for the rest of the night. It was a pretty rough time though, and people would hang up (they always have the doorbell speaker things) on us when we said we were missionaries. But as in all miracle stories, we came to the last door on the street and met a really nice man named R... I didn't even have a chance to introduce myself before he said he wanted to go down to the Family Ma...

  Well another transfer is done, and it appears that I will be staying in Tainan for a while longer. We still haven't had any of the new missionaries arrive because of the visa problems. Therefore, the Mission President is holding off moving everyone around until they get here. I'm so thankful that I was able to get to Taiwan as fast as I did. I thought that 2 months was a long time to wait, but it has been about 3 months for the other missionaries now and who knows when they will be here.   This past week was lots of fun. We had our English Party on Wednesday. It was Harry Potter themed. A lot of the younger members of our ward came and they had some pretty sweet homemade costumes. We didn't really have any time to make or get costumes so I just wore a green tie and said that I was Malfoy. Elder Smith was Harry Potter and Elder Page was Dumbledore. They both had costumes so for the entire night I kept getting comments like "Why don't you have a cos...