Hello Everyone!
This week was a little crazy so it is kind of hard for me to remember it all! Hahaha!
Last P-Day we went into Taibei for an exhibit called "Team Lab" it was really cool! It was pretty much just a bunch of cool artwork that they had setup but a lot of them were super interactive. They had places where you could color your own drawings and then they would scan them and make them become part of the art. For example we colored fish and then got to see them swimming in a giant aquarium with the ones other people had drawn. (Ours of course said mormon.org" and "Free English Class" on them!) They also had art projects with Kinect set up so you could interact with the art. It was really really cool to me just because of how much I love technology and stuff! Hahaha!
After that the next thing this week happened on Wednesday. Now that the church has adjusted to the age change they have switched back to having big conferences every transfer. That meant I got to go back to TaoYuan again because that church is one of the biggest in Taiwan! It was super fun and we got to see about half the mission. After President and Sister Jergensen gave their incredible training we got to hear from Elder and Sister Funk of the Asian Presidency. They gave us some great incite on how we can achieve our new mission goal of 600 baptisms in 2017. The mission is pumped and the we learned a lot. Sister Jergensen was my personal favorite talk. She talked about Jesus' first miracle, turning the water into wine. I had never looked into it so much! She even talked about the winky face! ;) Hahaha! The point of her talk was that if we are willing, Jesus can take us and make us into the best wine. Not just normal or good, but the best.
Oh and always to get to the Conference we rode on uBikes. They are these public bikes that Taiwan uses. But they are tiny! And they only have 3 gears. There were 8 of us and we for sure were the best looking uBike squad ever!
On Friday we had interviews with President so we got to see them again! We didn't really do training this time because of the zone conference so we just did interviews and a questions and answers with Sister Jergensen. I really love both of them. They are inspired.
Other than those crazy things. This week was some real progress with Jim! Mostly he is having a hard time believing the things we teach him. But this week we watched "The Prophet of the Restoration" with him and it went super well! He said he believes that Joseph Smith is a prophet! We can tell his faith is growing! He is even trying to make church a priority but it is still hard for him to get up in the morning so we are working on it!
Things are going well for Elder Cooper and I! We keep working hard and having fun! But this week is the transfer and we will see what happens! We should be staying together for one more but we will see!
I love being a missionary and I love the scriptures so much! This week I was reading about Captain Moroni. He is one of the most incredible people in the Book of Mormon! My personal favorite part of his story is just how much he defends the people, continuously improving and preparing. We can all learn from him. Always keep getting better. Keep preparing. Keep reading the scriptures everyday. If we do this we can be ready for any challenge in life.
Love you all so much!
Elder Holderness
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