May 21, 2017

Sorry I didn't email last week but not a lot of stuff happens anyway! The weeks just fly by.

Well we had a fantastic opportunity last Saturday! Elder Cook came to our mission! He was on island just to train all the stake presidents and bishops but he took some time with the other general authorities to speak with us and take a picture! They shared some very powerful testimonies of the savior and let us do about an hour of questions and answers. I left the meeting filled with the spirit and loved the opportunity.

Our work is going really well here in LinKou! We are getting more and more investigators every week and I am so excited to see all of their progression. My personal favorite right now is a family from Russia! They are so awesome! They came here for work but because they are foreigners they get pretty excluded and bullied. (We know how they feel.) They are already orthodox christian so they are really faithful and trust god. But when we shared the first vision and the restoration, they accepted it with no problems and graciously took the Book of Mormon. It was an incredible experience and I can't wait to see how they continue to progress in their conversion process! God really blessed me to be part of it and see it as it moves along.

We have others like Eric who is very interested in the Book of Mormon and is now trying to repent and be better! I am so excited with all the work here!

OH! Also, here's a really funny story:

My birthday was a couple weeks ago and I bought a cake to make but I never got the opportunity until last week. The real problem though is that here in Taiwan no one has an oven. Our apartment only has a small toaster oven. AND....... A rice cooker.

Yep! I used a rice cooker to make a birthday cake! HAHAHA! (Found out about half way through that the rice cooker is actually broken though so I just burned the whole cake and made a smoke bomb...) But if I had a not broken rice cooker it would've worked and it would've been delicious!



Love you all so much!
Elder Holderness

May 14, 2017 (Mother's Day)

Awesome Skype visit with Elder Holderness this week.  Doing fabulous in his new area!

May 7, 2017

Hello Everyone!

Well this last week was transfer week! And yep, I moved out of BanQiao. I loved that area.  I am now in LinKou. I actually didn't even move that far. I am still in the same zone actually! But I love it here!  We have to ride a train to get up here but it is an awesome view. We just go through beautiful tree covered mountains.


The city of LinKou started a long time ago, but the part that I serve in here was pretty much all built in the last five years so every building and stuff are super clean and super new! Even our apartment is amazing. I can't believe that missionaries are allowed to live in such a new and nice place! Hahaha!


BanQiao was great, I believe that Jim will get baptized in June. This new area is already awesome! Elder Joly is my new companion. He is from Draper. We already have some awesome investigators here and we are already finding a lot more! I think our area will definitely be on fire this transfer! I don't know all of them super well yet but we met a guy named Eric on my first day here and we met with him the next day. He is awesome and seems pretty interested.

Another strange thing about this area is that I am allowed to teach women here because there are no Sister Missionaries nearby. I haven't ever done that on my mission and it is a little weird to get used to! Hahaha! But we have two investigators that are best friends taking the lessons together because one of their older sister just got baptized. They are awesome and they set a date for June yesterday so we are excited for them too!

I love Taiwan and love the mission! I really am so excited to serve in this area! It has helped me really focus and get a lot of motivation back by moving somewhere else! Haha! BanQiao got a little small.

Love you all so much! I let you know more about it next week!