Taiwan

Well it's been an extremely raining week, and today marks the 7th day in a row that it has rained here in Donghai. And when it rains, it rains hard! There hasn't hardly been a break in the rain both day and night! It's starting to get a little old, but I guess that's how it is. I heard that Taiwan rained a lot, but up until now I didn't really know what they meant haha. I was riding from our house to the church for a lesson and within those 3 minutes of riding to the church, I was completely drenched and remained that way for the rest of the day. It was really weird teaching lessons with my clothes soaking wet and while wearing flip flops. I was just glad that only a couple of teaching lessons cancelled this week because of the rain. We were still able to teach lots of lessons, actually this week we had the most lessons of any other since I've been here. Other than lessons, we had to do a lot of calling though because it wasn't really the best to go contac...

Ni Hao Ma,  Well to make up for not sending any pictures last week I made sure to send plenty of them today. Sorry for sending so many haha. We had a pretty good week though so that's why I was able to send so many pictures! Hopefully the pictures of N... at her baptism went through ok. She is super awesome! She told us last week that she has been recommending her younger brother to go to church and now he is meeting with the missionaries over there! Yeah!   Last week we also went hiking with one of our friends J.... We went to a place called Da Ken (at least I think that's how it's spelled), and hiked up the mountains there. It's was a really nice place, and is called the Great Wall of Taiwan because from a certain angle, the mountain looks like a giant wall. In Taiwan I haven't seen very many places with much nature, but we found some! We had to drive quite a ways to get to them though. In the mountains there aren't a lot of people, and it's a lot mor...

   Wow, it was great to be able to talk with you all last night! Everyone looked happy! Ian, you looked a little tired. Hopefully you got to take a nap after church got out haha. Sorry I called you late, I could've sworn that you told me to skype at 7:30. It's all good though, at least the computer worked and we were able to talk.    The grass seriously looked so green back in Ohio! I haven't seen nice green grass like that for a while. I really miss all the open space and all the grass in Ohio. I love the warmth here in Taiwan. The weather is nice here literally every single day! It has only rained twice so far. The other days, you can just assume that it will be sunny and warm. It's unchanging.   Like I said yesterday, N... was baptized! She's awesome! I only met her during my second week here in Donghai, but it feels like I've known her for a lot longer than that. I've already seen in this short amount of time how much the gospel really makes p...

Changing up companions is always a different experience and sometimes takes a while to get adjusted to, but thankfully this week all went well. Elder Moore is a really fun guy that likes to make missionary work interesting. We, as usually went contacting pretty much all week, but he made it a lot of fun despite the rejection. It's nice to have companions like that. We saw a lot of miracles this week too! Tons of people that we don't even know called us and wanted to set up times to meet! I'm pretty sure they were people that we had called a long time ago but they had never set up or answered. Usually people will never call us back, let alone ask us when we have free time to meet! But it happened multiple times this week! Elder Moore can speak pretty good Taiwanese and I've seen that it is super effective for getting people to meet with you because they are just so amazed that an American can speak it. I've learned a little bit of Taiwanese, but only a little. It...