January 21, 2018

This week was just full of translating actually, we had Zone Conferences for all the Taibei Zones so my companion and I had to translate on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from about 9:00 to 1:00 so that took a lot of our time. Our president trained us by creating an analogy of how us as missionaries are like the medics on a battlefield. We need to be urgent and focused on our objective. We also need to be able to help everyone individually while at the same time helping as many people as we can. It was a really awesome comparison and some of the activities we did really helped us all understand it better.  (I asked Brian why he translates for zone conferences? They are all spoken in English so he has to translate Chinese for the naitve speaking missionaries)

This transfer has been going pretty well so far. My companion is Elder Hong, he is from Nantou which is the center of Taiwan. He is a genius and has some very impressive English. He is actually a convert of about 5 years so he is my fourth Taiwanese, convert companion! He is pretty quiet but we are able to have a lot of fun together and with the Assistants.

This week we were able to set up with the husband of a part member family here! We are super excited to start teaching him! He has been coming to church every week for the last couple of weeks and yesterday he was able to stay for the second hour! He is kind of the miracle for our area over the last few weeks.

Also, if you haven't watched the entire broadcast that President and Sister Uchtdorf gave, at least go watch the first couple minutes of Sister Uchtdorf's talk. The entire broadcast was amazing but the first little bit of hers was hilarious and you can't help but loving both of them so much after you watch it.

Last week we went to play laser tag again for P-Day which is always super fun!