Dear Family and Friends! Another week has gone by here in Taiwan and I am happy to say that time is starting to go by really quickly!
This week ended my first transfer on the island! Looking back on it, even with it's hard times I really only have positive memories of it! What a blessing that is by itself! I came to really love our district and am going to miss the good friends that left us this week!
This week, Elder Hammond and Sister Wang got transferred. They both are doing a white-wash training! I am going to miss them a lot! They both helped me and are my really good friends!
Besides that though, this week has been really great! On Monday, I got to go bowling with some of the other missionaries here and it made me miss my Life Activities Class with Coach Sheide! We had a lot of fun but I have lost too much of my practice so my score was sub-par.
At the conclusion of P-Day we had English Class Boarding. Which we just hand out a million flyers for our English Class. It was the first time that I could just walk around and talk to anyone without any fear! I felt amazing being capable to do that! (And I'll talk about it in a little bit but our English Class this week was a real success!)
On Tuesday we had our final district meeting with last district and it was fun! We sang hymns at the top of our lungs and then talked about all the good and bad we have seen in the last 6 weeks. The work here in Tao Yuan is really booming! Our zone had a goal this year to get 100 baptisms. Right now we are at 87 so we are really starting to put in extra prayers and effort to reach it before the end of the year!
I have gotten to be pretty good friends with Elder Liao (Or as best as possible) and it has helped a lot! Our work is really moving along. This week we have a baptism on Friday, it's a 13 year old boy name Peng Xiang Yi. He's a little crazy but mostly awesome! (And still the only person that I really don't understand a word that comes out of his mouth. Hahahaha)
This Wednesday we had English Class and I decided to teach about maps and directions. What better way to do that then hand draw a map of beautiful Orem, Utah from memory!? It turned out to be a pretty fun class and we got 2 investigators from it! One of them is so awesome, his name is Kenny. He attended the US Air Force Academy and then served in Taiwan's Air Force. He is retired now at age 50 and has a family we haven't met yet but look forward to it. On Thursday we got to meet with him and teach him the Restoration. After the lesson we went outside of the church and his car had gotten towed! It was so crazy! I thought he would be a little annoyed but it was the opposite! He thought it was funny and told us he was thankful for letting him come! He came to Stake Conference on Saturday night too!
Stake Conference was yesterday and that was really awesome! We had some of the 70 here and our Mission President came too. They all speak Chinese from different areas of the world so their accents were all different, some of the members couldn't understand the one from Hong Kong!
So that's about my whole week! Things are looking up here and the work is really moving! We haven't moved out of our house yet, we will on Wednesday! I am pretty excited! It should be fun and helpful for me!
Last little bits for fun! 1) Here in Taiwan, they play American Music all the time and the other day I heard Country Road. But in my head, all I could hear was Mark Gowans, Dan Finch and all the other Young Men's leaders singing Canyon Road (Orem Utah, Mountain Mama)! 2) This week I ate both 1000 year old egg and pig stomach soup!
Well I love you all and thank you for the support! Talk to you again next week! Happy Thanksgiving!
Elder Holderness
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