January 10, 2016

Hello Mom :)

This was another pretty great week. My companion is awesome and we have been able to get a lot done these last few weeks. Right now we are still doing a lot of different things to try and find new investigators because we don't have to many right now. So things are going a little slow but we are working supper hard and we have met a lot of supper cool people these last few days.

It was pretty cool to see sister Borden this week. I never really talked to her back in Minnesota but it was a lot of fun to get to know her. The Dewitt's invited us and a few other missionaries over to their house on Saturday and gave us all lunch. They made some Mexican type food with lots of beans, meat and salsa with root beer floats for desert. It didn't settle to well with my stomach after these last few months with nothing but Taiwanese food but it was still pretty good. Thank you for sending that package with her, it was great :) I was supper excited to see the Messiah music in their and I think my companion was about as excited as I was. Neither of us own a CD player though so we are still trying to figure that out.... I loved the tie and watch too. I feel a little like James Bond with the watch, I have an entire world map and two different clocks all on my wrist. And really the only variety in what missionaries can wear is our ties and watch so I think you did pretty good. :) thanks :)

Last Email I asked about my patriarchal blessing and those scriptures. I then realized I could probably look up the scriptures on my own because it is an official church website and I found out that the scriptures were a lot more expensive than I thought they were. When I'm living off of just a few dollars a day though I guess everything is relatively expensive. But anyway, they were a lot more money that I thought and it isn't an absolute necessity so you don't actually need to worry about that.  But if there is a way you know of to get a new copy of my patriarchal blessing I would still really appreciate that.

A lot happened this week but now that I want to write about it I cant remember much of it... Yesterday when church was done there was a huge Buddhist parade right in front of our church. I have seen lots of them before but I think this was probably the biggest/loudest/longest one I have ever seen. There were lots of people dressed up as the different Buddhist gods, lots of people carrying around their idols and TONS of fireworks.  When church was done we went back to our apartment for our companionship study and we couldn't ever hear each other talk because all of the music and fireworks were so loud. The local religions here are pretty strange most of the time.

I'm sorry I didn't get any pictures this week. I'm trying to get better at taking pictures but I have a really hard time remembering to take out my camera when i see something cool. Hopefully I will remember to get a few this week. Thank you for everything that you do for me, you are great :)

I love you!

Elder Wills