February 26, 2017

Hello everyone from the super wet Taiwan!

This week was awesome! Last week we spend the P-Day by eating and playing board games with our district! It was really relaxing and a good way to get ready for the week.

And our week was busy! Elder Cooper and I are really getting to be really good friends now. And also the work is really starting to move along now! We have some pretty good investigators moving along now but we are also still on the streets everyday trying to find new people! Especially if we can find a family here! That's our goal.

This Sunday was a crazy disaster and miracle for sacrament meeting. We planned on meeting our investigator, Jim, at the train station to go to Church with him at 8:50. But because he really likes to talk English with us, he thought we said 8:15. He didn't tell us he got there early or call us or anything. Instead, when we got there at 8:50 he texted us and said that he had waited for a half an hour then gone back to bed. So that was a bummer. But then during sacrament meeting, two of our other investigators that we invited but didn't expect to come actually showed up! It was both of their first times! Our ward did a whole sacrament meeting on missionary work though. Every talk was just about how the members need to work with the missionaries and always give referrals. So that was a little weird for all the investigators...

After we ended sacrament meeting and went to Gospel Principles Class, our third investigator called us and said he was on the third floor looking for us. So we actually went with him to the other ward's sacrament meeting with him. We hoped that one would be a little more investigator friendly.... BUT, it's Taiwan. They ended up having a crazy member talk really long and REALLY loud. He was just ranting about how everyone need to repent and follow the commandments. It was a little awkward. Hahaha (I still feel bad for the other ward's missionaries though. They had brought a new investigating family for their first time! Hahaha)

So things are going well here! Elder Cooper and I are really starting to get our area moving and I am starting to really figure out the whole missionary thing! (I probably never will! Hahaha) However, last Tuesday Elder Rauckhorst and I were on exchanges and it was super fun! A storm rolled in on Tuesday but we had planned on doing studies outside and we didn't feel like changing our plan! It was awesome to study under an umbrella! Hahaha! The storm finally stopped this morning but it was raining none stop for the last four or five days! Hahaha I love Taiwan!

That's about all I have for you this week!  Love you all so much!

Elder Holderness