Earthquake can't shake the work in Nantou!

You asked about fluency -- speaking yes, and I do dream in Chinese all the time, but reading and writing...ahhhh, tougher, but they're coming :)

And we did have a Rainstorm...no thunder, but it was cool and wet.  Gave us a cooler week too!!!  We also had a small Earthquake this morning, our desks just started wobbling, super cool...stomach weezer!!!  But it was only like 20 sec...

We had a wonderful chance to present a training to our ward in the form of a missionary fire side. 

I DID SEE H, YES!!!  He came to our missionary fireside!!!  I asked if we could help with anything at their house, and how he was recently, etc... good follow up.

P is still locked up in his house.  I think the ultimatum though is going to visit him this week, because he can choose to come to church, he just has to!!!!!

Which Brother Y was I looking for?...OH YEAH. that Brother Y, no...unfortunately, he's still lost, we found the other 99 sheep though, hahah, they were easy!  So we have to keep looking!!! :)

At church we had five interested friends -- amazing, J, SZ, a new boy who played basketball with us and the young men on Saturday named XZ, another who came to Family night on Sunday with a member family and us, and last – Z2 a great new investigator!!!  They all should be set well for learning and on track to be baptized within months!!!  Finding, two young men who stayed for a spiritual share we did after basketball, and then a Chinese woman we met who makes ash bins for the burnt deceased...she wants to know about the resurrection!!!

So I didn't get the suit yet...but I will, they originally said today, but apparently they forgot the pants!!!  Haha or something like unto the pants which are very essential according to all my understanding of clothing!

I had a dream about a family reunion recently.  Aunt Sara asked me to change a diaper, and Aunt Sallie to put her boat in a river.  So I guess upon my return Uncle Eric will have a lot of new diapers and Everal a lot of new boats...

Will we have a reunion in June or July...or I guess where?

There is a Boy in our ward named Chen Rong, he got called to serve in the Michigan Detroit Mission.  But all his stuff got sent in English, so I went and translated it all for them for like an hour on Thursday, they had two little nieces at their house, so funny, one wanted to bump my head and give me noggin'

This week has gone very well!!!  We have our good friend SZ who officially quit smoking and will be baptized on Saturday!

Then Z2 looks very solid and willing to hit his goal of the 9th!!!

J is not showing much interest again, because he doesn't do the commitments...haha, he is at this wanka right now, which means he's probably playing lol or wow or something!

A X looks great too.  We took him and Z2 to a members house (our ward mission leaders) for FHE yesterday night and we had a spiritual then a game -- all fun and helped both feel very comfortable with members!!!

Ope darn it I've got to do numbers... be right back I hope!!!

I love you!!!

Love Drew

Brother Hansen...take a bus down to Nantou and come see me bear my testimony on Sunday, there is a bus from Taipei to Nantou...Probably only like three hours long ;)

Hey Mom, I am healthy and well...the sickness I felt two weeks ago wanted to come back with a headache and throw up several days ago...but I conquered the last wave, and should be well!!!

Ah -- stress, haha, I have learned to overcome, and am not worried by much anymore.  That being said, when my companion is stressed, I get a bit stressed simply because I am not them and therefore do not know exactly how to address their concerns.  But God does, and as I pray and tactfully predict their worries, I can help them and myself have fun and move on.  As for myself.  I've learned I have an incredibly PAINFUL Guilt complex that can be triggered on my mission; that's just to say, if I feel guilty for something, or make a mistake, then I can start feeling horrible both physically and otherwise.  So, haha: that kind of stuff dealing with Obedience stresses me sometimes if I let it.  Just because this is a sacred calling, and if I mess up on God's time, and representing his name, I feel really bad, and get down on myself.  Those times are few and far between though.

I have learned on my mission, when other usual stressed come, to grit it out with a smile, and pray for help, and work happy.  That has blessed me to maintain a better, stress-free time, emotionally and spiritually on my mission!!!

Thanks so much Mom...Hah, that really is the ONLY stress that gets me on my mission I feel -- stress I create for myself.  However, you are exactly right, God knows just what's right, and regardless of the frequency or amplitude of our choices...He wants to help us DO what's right, and make what's not already: right!

Only Satan wants me to have headaches and be not fully functioning.  Haha, those situations are pretty silly, and don't happen often but then just happened to be the week you asked me...probably because I needed that reminder, thank you so much!!!