Hello!
This week was pretty fun and I'm doing pretty good! I'm
sorry I didn't really email last week but lately I have decided I am going to
write better emails (I know this is probably the third or fourth time I have
said that in the last year or so, but this time I'm serious) so I have lots to
say today! I'll start with last week.
Last week was this mid autumn festival, one of the bigger
holidays celebrated in Taiwan. All week people were out on the streets BBQing.
On Friday we had a group of recent converts invite us over to one of their
BBQs. We have a group of about 12 recent converts that have made really good
friend with each other and they are always doing things together, it is great.
Before we left they all decided we were going to play a game. Someone would
pick a word and everyone gets to know what it is, other than the two
missionaries. Then all of the Taiwanese will do there best to use English to
describe the word and the two Americans needed to use Chinese to guess what it
was. None of them had great English so it was
a pretty fun game. The only downside was that the looser of every round,
either my companion or I, had to drink a cup of bitter tea. There are no tea
leaves in it so it is ok to drink, it is actually pretty healthy, but it is
tastes absolutely awful. It really lives up to his name. I won the first round
and my companion almost threw up drinking it. Everyone else insisted that we
still had to play five or six more rounds before we switched people. I could
tell that there was no way my companion would be able to drink and more so I
purposely lost every round after that, most of the rounds I ended up whispering
the answer to my companion so he could get it right, and I had to drink quite a
bit of it. It was a fun experience but I don't ever want to do that again.
We just had another round of transfers and another set of
missionaries was taken out of our district, so we only have two companionship
now. Our mission is also experiencing a shortage of missionaries so one of the
other two elders in our district is just a member serving as a short time
missionary for a transfer. English class is going to be a lot of fun now that
we only have two american missionaries.
Our phone has a Chinese-English dictionary but ours uses
simplified characters. Taiwan uses traditional characters so most of the time
it doesn't do us any good. Last week we went to go see if we could get it
fixed. The first phone store we went to didn't even look at the phone and told
us there was no way to do it. The second place said there is a way to do it but
they don't know how. The third place also said there was no way. The fourth
place said the only way to get a traditional character dictionary on out phone
was to upgrade to a smart phone and then she tried to sell us the new iphone 7.
So we will just have to continue with a phone that doesn't have a good
dictionary.
I have set a goal to finish reading the book of Mormon in
Chinese by the end of the transfer.
This week at FHE we had a new RC in charge of the spiritual share. They were
planning on watching a short video but forgot to bring it with them. So he
decided to pick a random DVD from the church library and put see what it has.
He found a 10 min video labeled "commandments" and decided to use it.
It ended up being a video of David interpreting Nebuchadnezzars dream. None of
the people at FHE have been members for more than a few months and I know none
of them have ever read the bible before so they were all very confused. It was
pretty funny.
A few days ago we came across a crazy man on the streets.
When he saw us he started stumbling toward us yelling "Please pray for
me!". He was twitching and tripping over himself and could barely even
stand. I pulled a tract out of my pocket and gave it to him. As soon as he
touched it he stood up straight, polity said "thank you" and calmly
walked away.
I have a few other good stories but I am almost out of time
so I will have to wait until next week. For my birthday the only thing I can
think of that I could use on my mission would be a new journal.
I love you all and I hope you have a great week!
Elder Wills
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