May 25, 2015

Hello everyone!

This has been another pretty great week in Taiwan. I got to meet more people, learn new things and try some more interesting food. I also went on my first overnight exchange with another missionary. It was really cool to work with someone else for a day and learn about how other people do things. 

May 17, 2015

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This has been another exciting week in Taiwan! Them members here don't really ever feed the missionaries so we eat all of our meals at home or at different places but this week we had a few meals with members and I had a few pretty interesting things. There was lots of whole fish, fresh grass soup and lots of sea food. I think the most interesting was my lunch yesterday. We had some soup that was basically a few squids with some shrimp and noodles. It actually didn't taste to bad but the squid was really rubbery and I  accidently ate a squid beak, that was a little gross. 

May 10, 2015

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This week has had a lot of ups and downs but overall I think it was pretty great. I was a little sick for a few days and wasn't able to do much but for the rest of the week i was able to work pretty  hard. Earlier this week we were teaching on of our investigators the plan of salvation  He is about 60 years old and is a professor at a school nearby. He was supper interested in everything we had to say and he was very smart.

Mark's First Baptism

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This has been another crazy week over here in Taiwan. It has been a lot of hard work but it has also been a lot of fun. I'm still working pretty hard to learn the language but it is slowly getting better. Most of the time I can at least understand what people are talking about. But I have lots of chances to practice using my Chinese every day, so it is improving pretty quickly. We ride our bikes everywhere so at every stop light we talk with the people on there scooters that are next to us and we try to talk with everyone we pass by. 

First Few Days in Taiwan

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This has probably been one of the craziest weeks of my life. I left the MTC at about 3:00 in the morning and got to Taiwan about 24 hours later. It was probably about 2:00 am by the time we all got to the mission home and we were able to get to bed. The next day we got to know the mission president and his wife a little and learned a little about Taiwan and its culture. We all went out for dinner and I got my first real Taiwanese dinner. There was lots of fish and noodles and there were also a few duck brains and some fried shrimp covered in frosting and sprinkles for desert. It was a little interesting but not to bad. After dinner about mission president took us all out to a night market, there were TONS of people there. Then someone took out a little wooden stool and then told us that we had to stand up on the stool in the middle of the road and start preaching about the book of Mormon to all of the people that pass by. It was just a little scary. But we all managed to live through it and I'm glad that we were able to do it.