January 18, 2015
I'm actually in Mingjian's area today, so surreal to be
walking the Streets that I did with Elder Stone over a year ago :) It's
great though:
I've seen places where I saw a black man crash his
motorcycle and crush his cell phone, a door that I tracted into a great
schoolteacher, an intersection that I proselyted at, and a roadside where I
helped an old fellow find the police man because he was bleeding but had no
life insurance or something (health ba), etc...
Today Elder Turner and I got on a bus to Zhushan (the city
we're in, still Mingjian's area) and we finally got here, with Elder Claflin
and Gathright, and are now emailing :) We will ride up past Lugu today to
try to see a historical site called Xi Tou (west head) today...it's an
aborigine site I think! So I should be able to point out the Taiwan Tea
Family store so these guys can go visit them!!! They have long since me
been lost to missionary contact...bummer! Then if you remember, in my
last days here I contacted a super old man, ninety two, and he only understood
the pictures! We will be going up to that area, but further, on the
mountain!!! Wahooo!!! (I brought my frisbee too, cause we'll be in
the forest on a mountain!), and then bus back down, this is the same hill I had
that very scary very fast crash on...but we're busing today!!! Then we'll
buy breakfast groceries (oatmeal, eggs and toast), then we have five lessons with
Peter, Jeff, Huang, Smith, and a mystery add tonight (great for a Monday
night), and then we'll head in and to bed!!!
Anyways, my shoes are trashed...no support whatsoever, but I
don't want you to send me new ones yet. I think I can buy an of name
brand here for like 300 or 500 Kuai, like 10 to 20 dollars, and if I can, I'll
just do that and wear them down to the end of my Taiwanese time!
That's sweet!!! Sounds great!!!
Story number one lies in my president's letter -- that new
man James came to English Class, and then I added him for the next morning, he
is cool, but very dramatic too, haha! Hopefully he has a real desire,
because he does have a goal now, and we want to help him feel the weight and
importance of it!!! On exchanges with Elder Shurtz we worked that morning
on extending a baptismal invitation to someone who was nervous!
MIRACLE: we then went to meet a new investigator named James Zou, and we
extended an invitation just as I had practiced with Elder Shurtz. And now
he has a goal for February. Heavenly Father wants to help us. We
just need to prepare then the blessings will come.
Peter did Come to church on Saturday Evening, he was busy
though Sunday morning...we had Sake Conference this week, so so so
good!!! The Temple President He(name) came down from Taipei, and an old
President came up from Xinying, my old branch, so that was so cool and great
to see them and hear them hit on Temple work!!! Then our President Chen
touched a lot on how wards can help missionaries stay busy through effective
ward council!!! ...not to mention do the other things like organize their
own missionary work and rescue wandering souls!!! I love that point
though, so many ward leaders here are too shy to ask our help...BUT WE WANT TO
HELP, and the ward is our first priority!!! Elder Turner and I keep
plenty busy and do well, but I know many missionaries, and I have felt in other
areas that I just need more direction and more tasks from the ward!!! So
that was cool!!!
Peter brought his nephew too, he didn't understand the
church terms, haha, so for once, I had to help a chinese person understand
chinese ;) fun!!!
Then Smith, two Vietnamese girls, patrick, and Hun (a
miracle non member dad of a member family) all came to stake conference from my
English class!!! Super cool!!! In fact in English class, I tried to
secretly pick people who I want to feel the power of prayer to say our closing
prayer, and I picked Hun!!! His wife laughed then he nudged her, said
okay, AND SAID IT!!!!! She told me later it was the first time he's ever
prayed!!! SO COOL!!!! Miracle, I hope and pray we can teach them!!!
Love You
Love Drew
PS Oh my last District meeting was here with Elder
Claflin and he did a great job training us on Comp Unity as well as Bearing
Testimony frequently, Elder Turner and I picked that topic for our zone, and he
did great!!! That was when I was with Elder Shurtz who came from Yuanlin,
Elder Otte's area, I love d seeing Elder Otte several times this week!!!
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