Taiwan

Dear Everyone,   This week was a pretty busy week in terms of meetings and the like, but it was a really good one. There wasn't a whole lot of success or improvement with regards to our teaching opportunities, but it was a great week for me personally!    On Monday we just kind of chilled around town and tried to find fun things to do. We didn't really find anything, just a few places to take pictures. The zebra guy was pretty cool, and the illusion drawings are cool too. I wish they had more though. The best was definitely the guy on the motorcycle haha.    On Tuesday we went over to the Yuanshan chapel to attend another district's training meeting or DTM. I love being able to go and interact with other missionaries and see how they are doing. We also brought the Yuanshan Elders, Elder Weatherford and Elder Jones, over to our area to do exchanges, and I got to work with Elder Weatherford. It was pretty fun. Unfortunately we just...

Hello Everyone!!!    First off I'd just like to say that H... from Xihu got baptized two days ago and in the picture that they took, he looks the happiest that I've ever seen him!! He really did not have a happy life and didn't care about anything. Elder Osborne (my MTC companion who is in Xihu right now) said that he had a little analogy that he told during his baptismal interview. He said he always was carrying around a heavy rock, and when he started learning the gospel the rock broke and every time he learned a new principle a piece was taken away. I'm so happy that he was able to feel of the joy that the gospel of Jesus Christ can bring into his life!! Way to go H...!!   This week was also full of other miracles! My companion Elder Steele and I love to find people to talk to and sometimes we ask them to help us do a survey. Usually we will go to people who are sitting at 7-11s and Family Marts (the best convenient stores in Taiwan) and then talk with th...

Hey Everyone!!  Well my first week with Elder Steele was super busy and stressful, but now it's all done and it turned out to be a pretty good week! On Monday and Tuesday we were at the big cultural center helping out with the family history activity. The activity was pretty fun and was a great opportunity to let other people learn more about our church through helping them with their family history. It was a big success and each day there was over 6 thousand people who visited the exhibit! We didn't do a ton to help out, but we gave people maps of our exhibit and told them to go check it out. We weren't allowed to proselyte at the cultural center because it is a government owned facility, but we were there to make friends and encourage people to start doing family history work. It was fun having the whole zone at this activity participating and being able to meet all of them. Because we just had a movecall, most of people are new to the zone. Actually, half ...

Hello Everyone!!   Sorry my time is a little short, so I will type quickly. Last week was pretty good. On our last pday we just kind of went wandering around the city looking for cool things.  It was fun.   Tuesday we got up at 4:30 am to get on the train to go to Taichung for our Mission Leadership Council. It was a long ride and I was exhausted. I was planning to sleep on the 3.5 hour ride up, but then some other elders I knew sat in the seats next to us... so no one got any sleep haha. The meeting was good though. We learned a lot of good stuff. (Sorry, I don't have time to write what we did learn).  Wednesday we had our English party. We had a big Easter party with a pinata and an Easter egg hunt. We ended up making the pinata too thick so nobody could break it after about 20 to 30 minutes. So I ended up having to go in there and break it for them haha. The rest of the week was good but I have 30 seconds left to ty...