Hello Everyone!
This was another pretty great week in Taiwan full of lots of
excitement and miracles. One of the highlights of this week was exchanges with
Elder Tseng.
After teaching a few lessons our plan was to go hit the
streets and meet some new people. while we were inside it had started raining.
Usually there are not very many people outside when it is raining but after talking about it we decided we
should still go with our original plan. for a while we didn't have much
success, nobody wanted to talk to us. but then in the last ten minuets we had
three different people contact us and ask us for our phone number and all of
them were able to set up a time to meet. So by the time we got home for the
night we were both soaking wet and exhausted from another great day full of
missionary work but we were both smiling.
Here's a quick Chinese lesson for you all. there are
multiple ways to say brother or sister depending on weather or not they are
older than you. so older brother would be GeGe and younger brother would be
DiDi. there are also multiple ways to refer to aunts, uncles grandma and
grandpa dependent on what side of the family they are on and how old they are
in relation to your parents. Then when you start talking about cousins things
start to get really complicated. With one word I can be as specific as my dads
older sisters son that is younger than I am. And then i am in Taiwan so there
is a little Taiwanese mixed in there too. So in the end i think there are 4
ways to say grandpa or grandma, 4 ways to say uncle, 4 ways to say aunt and at
least 8 ways to say cousin. Maybe even more.
I'm about out of time for today but thank you all of the
birthday wishes. I'm a little surprised so many people remembered, I'm guessing
my mom might have something to do with that. I'm sorry I don't have time to
respond to all of you individually but thank you for taking the time to email
me. I hope you all have a great week!
Elder Wills
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