February 28, 2016

Hello again,

This was an alright week. Missionary work has been going pretty slow here lately so the last week or so Elder Erwin and I have kinda fallen into a rut but we talked a lot about it last night after planning and we have lots of great plans and goals of what we need to improve so hopefully this next week will be a lot better.

This last Sunday we had 72 people show up to sacrament meeting. Excluding steak conference this was the largest turn out for any church meeting/activity I have seen since getting to Taiwan. So I guess our ward is a little larger than the average Taiwan ward but I'm kinda getting the impression that the ward members don't really like or care about the missionaries. I'm wondering if this ward has a history of lots of problematic missionaries. So a few of the goals we set and plans we came up with yesterday will hopefully help us serve the ward better and gain the trust of the members.

A few weeks ago I emailed about the crazy cold weather in Taiwan, Since then it has never really warmed back up to normal but based off of the weather the last few days I don't think it will be much longer before the weather is back to supper humid and hot.

There are a lot of people in Taiwan that assume because we are Americans we must personally associate with Obama and there have been a few times they would ask me something like "Next time you see Obama tell him this for me" or "you need to tell Obama this, it will fix his problems" or sometimes they claim to have a secret we need to tell him to save the entire world. This week our district was all going to an area to give  out a lot of English tracts when two of the other elders in our district were pulled over by a man on a scooter. He looked a little frantic and as soon as they got to the side of the road he started digging through his bag until he found a note. He gave the note to them and told them it was a huge secret that would change the world. Because we are Americans we are the only ones that can help. But we cant let anyone else know this secret. He then took off on his scooter and we read the note he gave us. I took a picture of it so you could also enjoy it. 

And here is a picture of the church building we meet in. There are redoing some of the outside rock stuff, hopefully it will be done soon because all of the scaffolding isn't supper inviting for people coming to the church for the first time. There are 4 wards that meet in this building and I think there are 3 or 4 more of ​these buildings in Taiwan.

Thank you for both being such awesome parents, I love you!

Elder Wills