December 27, 2015

大家好!

Merry Christmas! (sorry I'm a few days late). I hope you all had a great week! This week was pretty busy for us, most weeks are. To celebrate Christmas we had a ward party, a few rounds of Christmas caroling and we made some cookies. Everything went pretty well but the cookies, turns out I bought the wrong kind of butter. I didn't even know there was more than one kind of butter.... But overall the week was pretty great.

December 20, 2015

Hello again!

This was another pretty great week full of missionary work and miracles. We had a few great lessons with new investigators. One of them just randomly showed up to the church an Thursday and asked if he could learn a little about us. He said he came to the building once about fifteen years ago but since then he hasn't had any contact with the church. He said he was just out on a walk and decided to stop by, it was pretty great.

December 13, 2015

Hello again!

This was another great week and maybe a little more crazy than other weeks. It started off Early in the week when I got to go on exchanges with Elder Otte. I enjoyed spending the 24 hours pulling all of the knowledge from him that he could handle and learning lots of great things about missionary work. Then on Thursday we were going to have a Mission Christmas party but

December 7, 2015

Hello everyone!

Like always this has been a pretty great week in Taiwan. The weather has cooled off to the point that I no longer instantly start sweating the instant I walk out the door. In a few weeks it might bee cool enough that I can wear a jacket. I love it!

November 29, 2015

Hello again!

It started out on a Tuesday with a baptismal service. I have decided that one of the best feeling is to make a good friend and watch as the gospel changes their life and see them become happier more positive people. I met Ollie about three months ago and in that time I have seen him make lots of big changes and he has been a good example to me of acting in faith and trusting in the lord.

Mark's Thanksgiving Dinner at DeWitt's

Last week Jared asked me what Mark would do for Thanksgiving, then a bit more subdued he said "Oh yeah, they don't celebrate that in Taiwan." For a little boy that loves holidays this was a bit hard for him. Later that afternoon I received a Facebook message from a member in Mark's ward.

November 23, 2015

During General Conference we had a new apostle called.  His name is Gary E Stevenson, who also happens to have a son in Taiwan on a mission.  Mark's first companion was Elder Stevenson.  Later in this letter he mentions that the new apostle is coming to visit this week.  I asked if this happened to be the father of his first companion, here is his response:

Yes, It is the same Elder Stevenson I was companions with. Often we will refer to our first companion as our dad and because my first companions father was called as an apostle I have had a few people make the joke that my grandpa was called as an apostle.

Hello!

 This has been a pretty great week for lot of reasons. First off I think I must have gained at least 100 pounds. I don't think I have ever eaten so much food in my life. It started last Monday when some members offered to take us to Costco for our weekly grocery shopping. Then on Wednesday I had an English student cook a turkey for me to celebrate thanksgiving. On Friday there were some members that invited about twenty missionaries and twenty other people over for a thanksgiving dinner. On Saturday our ward had a thanksgiving activity which also involved lots of food. So 100 pounds might have been a bit of an exaggeration but I think I will need to do a little extra running this week to work it all off.