Ready to teach in Taiwan

Ready to teach in Taiwan

Sunday, November 13, 2016

October 2, 2016

Hello!

When did Christian get his mission call? And he will be serving in the same mission that Simeon is in?

This week we had another Typhoon, this one was a lot bigger than the last one. We were told not to leave our house on Tuesday. We were planning on getting in some extra studies and calling some former investigators but then the power went out and we no longer had any cell service. Because of the storm it was really dark outside and because the power was out we didn't have any working AC. so we pretty much just sat in the dark and heat for a few hours. There wasn't anything that we could do because we couldn't see anything.  In the evening the storm calmed down enough for us to go outside but the power was still out in the city. There were lots of trees down all over the roads and nobody else was outside. Elder Lin (another elder in our district) told me multiple times that he was worried about the zombies.

English has been a bit of a struggle lately. With less missionaries in the district we have had to put our beginner, intermediate and advanced class together. Last week we tried to play twenty questions. We had an advanced student volunteer to go first, her name is Nathy. We took turns as a class asking her questions to find out what she was thinking of but there were a few people that just didn't quite understand the game. The first few questions were pretty good, "is it alive?", "is it big?" and whatnot but then a student asked Nathy "Are you single?". My companion almost fell over he was laughing so hard and was trying my best to stay calm. The student that asked that question was really confused because he didn't know what he did wrong. So I explained the rules of the game again and then went on to the next person the ask question. He asked her "can you cook?" at this point my companion was actually on the ground laughing along with three our four students. I tried my best to reexplain the rules again but as I was explaining another student yelled out "do you have a facebook?" and someone else asked if she had a line (I think it is something similar to facebook) and the guy that asked if she was single started asking for her contact information and where she lives..... I'm not so sure Nathy is going to come back next week and I don't think I will ever play that game in English class again.

Yesterday a member referred us to a friend that is currently in the hospital recovering from a car crash. He said we could visit him in the evening but when we got to the hospital we couldn't find anyone inside and other than one or two lights in the entrance there were no lights on. We tried our best to find his room but we couldn't find any maps or signs to help us know where to go. So in the end we spent about 20 minuets running up and down the long hallways of this giant deserted hospital, making this the second time this week I felt like I was in some kind of zombie apocalypse movie. But in the end we did find him and we were able to teach him about the restoration. He sounded pretty excited for us to come back this week and continue sharing with him.



I hope you all have a great week!


Elder Wills

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