August 7, 2016

Hello!

This week was absolutely crazy. There has been a lot happening in the ward lately so for a few months we had 4 elders in the same ward and we were still pretty busy. On Thursday Night I got a call from President Teh and he told me I need to be at the mission home the next day because I will be training next transfer and I need to go pick up my new companion. That was pretty unexpected and I wasn't given very much notice. When I was at the meeting the next day I got a phone call form the other elders in our ward, they are both leaving when the new transfer starts and nobody will be coming to replace them so my companion and I will be taking over everything that they were doing... So now my companion and I are in charge of all 18 recent converts in the ward, we have 8 investigators with a baptismal goal for the next few months, a few less active members we are working with and a bunch of other investigators without goals yet. Then on Sunday we had two less active members show up that said they want to start meeting with us and come back and we had four people randomly show up that want to learn more. So overall my companion and I have about 50 people we are working with on a pretty regular basis. I don't know how we are going to find the time we need for all of this and my companion has absolutely no clue as to what is happening. These next few weeks are going to be a lot of fun.... :)

So as you can probably tell there is a lot going on right now and I feel a little stressed out but there are also lots of great tings happening. My new companion is supper cool and I am really going to enjoy these next twelve weeks with him. His Chinese is significantly better than mine was when I first got to Taiwan and he is supper willing to work hard and do anything that needs to be done.  

Have you heard of the new app pokemon go? It is all over the place here and it is actually helping out with missionary work a lot. Its in interactive pokemon game where you need to actually go outside and walk around to find pokemon. for the last few weeks there have been a lot more people outside than normal and if you know a little pokemon vocabulary they are all supper friendly and willing to talk to you. I've also seen quite a few families out at the parks playing the game together. And the game is all in English so most people cant read it all and will sometimes come to us and ask us if we can translate for them. In my mind this new app pretty much counts as a miracle.

I don't know why but computers have stopped recognizing my camera when I plug it in so I don't know If I will be able to send anymore pictures. I can still take them but I have no way to get them onto the computer.

The last few months I have been doing P90X for my morning workouts but recently our mission president has changed the rules and we can no longer use P90X. So I'm looking for something new to help get me motivated to get out of bed in the morning. I have seen a few missionaries that have a few sheets of paper with "superhero workouts" on them. Could you try looking that up online and email them to me if you find anything that looks like it might be useful? If I don't have any kind of plan to follow I have a hard time getting in a decent workout in the mornings.

Thank you for the time you took to email me again this week. I laughed a little when you told me about Erin getting her teeth out.  I hope you have a great week!

Elder Wills