Here they come as I get to feast upon the words of family
emails, my favorite delicacy next to the words of Christ...it's crazy how many
friends are emailing me about them going home!!! Ahhh!
Oh man Dad, I love you too so much!!!
I can't wait to see you all. All of those
entrepreneurial ideas sound great, fresh and fun!!! I'd be more than
happy to be on call for Brother Stewart's Zip line as well!!!
Poor Trevor, ah my heart goes out for him...Pole Vault is
just that way. I love you Trevor!!!
I pray for Kyle's and Trevor's flight every night, but God
knows Pole Vaulting is not an integral part of the Plan of Salvation,
Yes, most importantly, I have not been attacked by a
shower-head-wielding Elder Page, but that does not stop him from tackling me
almost nightly onto my bed or into my desk...haha, he's a funny one ;)
This week has been a wet one for sure, near every day we are
just soaked, whether by rain on the outside, or by sweat on the inside (of our
raingear!) Oh boy...it's nice. I actually for about the second year
of my mission have not had any long or hard rains, so I like that now we do get
some moisture. Not to mention Taiwan sorely needs it!!! It's in a
drought-s
tage right now. Not anymore. However, when I first moved down here, the city of GaoXiong was going to make a policy where they shut down the city's water for two days every week. Condition: unless it rained a-lot and soon! So you better believe you know what fast Sunday was for in May, haha. Us missionaries were thinking, well "we could fill up the bathtub one day before, and take turns bathing in it each morning for those two days...or we could just shower in our own sweat as we exercise in the mornings and proselyte in the days...I probably would've gone with the latter had I the choice. However fortunately we don't need to worry about that anymore!!!
The Y family is great, good and sad news. We visited
them on Saturday, and passed them over to the QianZhen Elders because they live
right over the ward boundaries. Those Elders are Elder Cuartas and Elder
Lindsey, both great Elders and the Zone leaders of the other GaoXiong Zone,
So we'll miss the Y family. But they're in good hands!
You should be able to see in our pictures that last
Saturday, we went to visit some caves in Northern GaoXiong with Elder Jensen
and Elder Davis (E. Otte's MTC Comp.). This was also Elder Pennington's
old Area! GangShan. Anyways that was pretty cool and fun.
Probably more dangerous than we realized at first, or at least for those
claustrophobic friends, but I just pushed along and we made it to the nice
light through an adventurous tunnel, super old, natural, and cool!!!
The
man who took us is English named Dark...and is their investigator, he loved
Elder Elder Penninton, and is sad he's gone, so that was a treat!
Today, all the other Elders wanted to show off their cool
socks...hmmm, so I got my cool socks out too!!! (aka Costco Wool)
We're going into the uptown City part of GaoXiong today to see some shops
or something that might have some cool stuff, now I'm not a shopper, but Elder
Page said they have Taiwanese stuff...hope so, might be cool. But it is a
rule that we don't use mission funds for personal items. I've heard some
missionaries complain that "it's all our money anyways, can't I just save
it up and spend it on what I want?" But we are instructed
specifically not to do that... even more important for now is honesty, and
before I forget, I just need to pull that out to make sure I don't return home
without exchanging that money back to my mission fund. Anyways, if you
see that drop that's why...also, in the long run, that should be an
insignificant withdrawal ;) ...unless I let myself realize it's like 20 Subway
sandwiches...but I don't let myself think such horrible things, haha;)
Today should be fun!!!
Sister Blickenstaff did get the pictures!!!
Y Wang passed her Baptismal interview too :) !!!!! She
is so great and so prepared!!!!! This Saturday at 6:00 we'll do her
Baptism, and then we'll watch a church movie afterwards as sort of a Ward
activity, because two targets we have and need are ward unity, and convert
retention...it's so happening!!! N is close behind and improving, we met
his Mom, she's great!!!
Love You!!!
Love Drew
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