Taiwan

Hi Everyone,   This past week was pretty good! We didn't get pday, but that was because we got to go to the temple! This is the second time I've been to the temple here and luckily this time it wasn't raining so we got to enjoy walking around the outside for a while. It was a nice day and unfortunately I didn't bring my camera. I just assumed it would be raining like usual and that I wouldn't be able to take any pics. Maybe I can just borrow someone's camera and grab some of their pics. It was fun riding up there. I sat next to my old companion, Elder Smith.    This week we also went on companion exchanges, and Elder Steele came up to Donghai to work with me for a while. And as usually with exchanges, super good things happened! We met with a guy named J... for the first time and he's super cool. We actually had told him to come the next day for a baptism but he showed up a day early and wanted to meet. That's ok with me! He's a really friendly ...

Hello Everyone,  Well, we just had another awesome week up in Taizhong! I'm sorry to hear that back home you had all that rain during your campouts. Luckily here we haven't had any rain all last week! Eric, I feel your pain though. It is super hot here too! The hottest months in Taiwan are coming up, luckily I'm in Taizhong though and not down further south. It's still really hot though. Luckily the room that we sleep in has an air conditioner, but as soon as you step outside of the room you start to sweat like crazy. I went to wash the dishes for a few minutes and by the time I was finished, sweat was dripping all off my nose. It's lots of fun!   Other than that our week was great. We've been meeting with a really cool investigator named Eric recently (yeah with a name like that he'd better be cool).  And he is an awesome college student here at Donghai. We've met with him a couple times and he always has the best questions. Here in Taiwan they are...

Hey Everyone!   I realized that Father's Day is about a week away but I just wanted to make sure that I wasn't late in wishing everyone a Happy Father's Day. And Eric, a very happy birthday to you! I hope that you had a fantastic bday! I think that God, for your birthday, gave me a present.   Two days ago we were meeting with a really nice man in our ward named W.... He doesn't come to church very often and is the only member in his family which is really hard for him. We were talking with him and he said, I really want to start coming back to church! He has a son who is 11 and is really cool and always comes to our English class. He has never really come to church much but he said that he and his dad could start coming and that he wants to be baptized! Wow! What a big birthday gift! I'm really excited for this because W... is such a really nice guy and he has had a hard life with health problems and some family issues. I really hope that as they both come a lot...

Hey everyone!  Thankfully this last week has been much nicer than the last two, it only rained one day this week! That made things a lot easier for us. We also had an amazing weekend. L... was baptized!! It was a double baptism. There was also a little girl from the W... family in our ward who was getting baptized as well. They were the family who were super good with helping us when we were first meeting with N.... It was a really nice baptism and L... was smiling big and really happy.   For this next movecall I will be staying with Elder Moore again in Donghai. Elder Kujanpaa in our district is going to be moving out to Tainan, and my old friend from Tainan, Elder Galura is going to be moving into our district! I'm really excited that he's moving in with us. He was a really good supportive missionary when I first got on the island and it will be cool again to be serving next to him.     Yesterday was Elder Moore's birthday! So we had some cake and a l...

          Hey everyone!   Well, the rain is continuing to fall here in Donghai and it doesn't seem like it will ever be stopping! Today is the 14th day in a row that it has rained! To say it's starting to be an annoyance would be a very big understatement. Before the rain came, everyone here was complaining about a drought, and now everyone just wants the rain to stop. I'm kind of hoping for the same thing haha. I'm really glad that I have those rain pants though. Before I thought I would never wear them because they look weird, but now they're the best. If I don't wear them and my jacket, then I'm completely soaked through in just 5 minutes of being outside!   Other than the rain, this last week we had some other fun stuff happen. The past few Sundays we taught the members how to talk with people about the Church and do stuff like that, and we had a big ward mission activity. We had a bunch of members go t...