October 11, 2015

Hello again!

This was another pretty great, action packed week over here in Taiwan. A few of the highlights would be our English party and general conference.  I think I'll start with the English party.

Every Wednesday we will teach a free English class. On the last week of the transfer we will have an English party. It is getting close to Halloween so we decided on a Halloween theme. Hours of preparation went into the planning, decorations, games and making sure all of the details were in place. We had lots of fun games planned out, one of them was using toilet paper to dress up like a mummy. Wednesday night came and the party started. As soon as the opening prayer ended all of the kids sprinted over to the corner with the toilet paper. they ripped open the package and started throwing it all across the gym. It wasn't long before the entire party had turned into a full fledged toilet paper war with everyone from ages 6-60 years old participating. We did our best to try and settle everyone down, organize people into groups and do all of the things that we had planned. After giving our best attempts and not seeing any success we decided to give up. The next hour was full of lots of people running around and toilet paper all over the place. The party didn't go as we had planned at all but everyone seemed to really enjoy it. So maybe for the next party we will just save our self all of the trouble of planning a party and just buy a few more rolls of toilet paper.

at this point we still hadn't completely lost control of the party

This weekend I had the opportunity to watch general conference. Most of the members watched in the chapel and a few of us were able to go into a different room and watch in English. During the first talk I learned that I need to stop making things more complicated then they need to be. I feel like for the remainder of conference the majority of the talks were all focused on the basics of the gospel; Faith, Repentance and Prayer. I also really liked the talk and invitation we were given to "ponderize" a scripture every week. I'm starting today and I will probably be sharing some of my scriptures and thoughts with all of you from now on. And I would also love to here from all of you, what scriptures you have chosen for the week and the things that you have learned :) Overall I really enjoyed this conference and I was able to learn a lot of great things from it. By the end of those two days there were three things that I decided I need to do 1)focus on the basics of the gospel 2)ponderize a new scripture every week 3)Smile more.

Thank you all for all of the emails. I hope you all Have a great week!

Elder Wills

I'm constantly being told i need to include more pictures so here is a random picture of Steven and I at a scavenger hunt activity last Friday.