March 6, 2016

Hello again!

Mom: My companion says he hasn't been invited over to dinner by a member since getting to this area  since he got here. Including Christmas and Chinese new year. So I don't think it will be a very common occurrence over these next few weeks either.

Most Mondays as soon as I am done writing my emails I remember a few things I wanted to say. So I'm going to try and format this one a little differently and see if it helps me remember more of what happened this week.

Monday:The other elders in our district and a bunch of members all decided to go to the zoo together. Taiwanese zoos are nothing like american zoos. They mostly have a bunch of snakes and alligators.

Tuesday: We had DTM and we met with one of our investigators, Shao. He is supper cool but he cant ever come to the church for anything. He is 18 and his parents wont ever let him leave the house for more than 30 minuets. We think he probably is failing school so his parents want I'm to stay inside and study all the time. Hopefully he passes his tests soon so he can come to church.

Wednesday: English class! just like every other Wednesday. Right now we are focusing on getting more members to English class and introduce our students to members in a non threatening environment. This week we were playing 20 questions in my class when we got a supersize visit from assistants who came to evaluate the English program.

Thursday: Thursdays usually feel pretty long because we have a hard time setting up any lessons on Thursday and we don't really have anything else planned. We met with Shao again but the rest of the time we were just looking for new people to teach.

Friday: We had weekly planning and visited a less active family at their home. We also got the news that we would be moving to a new apartment next Wednesday. Our apartment is really small and sketchy, even by Taiwanese standards. Elder Erwin and I are a little excited about that.

Saturday: We traveled over to another area and met up with a few other missionaries to practice a musical piece we will be preforming at the Zone conference this week. Elder Erwin is amazing at the violin so somehow I got dragged into singing at it too. Its going to be a relay cool arrangement of a child's prayer, oh my father and come thou fount that another elder wrote earlier in the week. There are some very musically talented missionaries in this area so I think it should be pretty good.

Sunday: Started out with church, a lot of people showed up this week, it was pretty cool. Then we went to an FHE activity with a few other investigators and we got to meet a lot of new people. It was a lot of fun.

Today we are planning on going to a beach as soon as we are done with emailing, hopefully I'll have a few more good pictures and stories for next week. Thank you bothfor being such great parents and I hope you both have a great week!