March 25, 2018

Well this last week started out pretty awesome. We had a super fun P-Day and went to an amusement park about an hour away from Taibei. A member invited a lot of missionaries to go so even though most of the people there didn't dare ride a lot of the attractions we had a enough people that they would run it just for us.

We got to do a lot of proselyting this week and we even had a very awesome investigator come with us to a couple activities but after asking him if he wanted to work towards baptism he let us know that he wasn't very interested in church but would love if we kept inviting him to activities. That was a disappointment for us. Especially because this week begins transfers again so I am not going to be able to get out very much. This will probably be my last time to have to plan them though. Next time I will be training someone else how to do everything.

I feel like these letters are really short but I just really don't have a lot to write about.

This week I was reading the church's new volume on the Church History "Saints". It is quite a unique perspective on the life of Joseph Smith and I have loved it. Not all of it has been released yet but I would recommend it.

Elder Holderness

March 18, 2018

Hey Everyone!

First I just want to thank you all for any prayers for Missionaries lately because we definitely saw some of the blessings in our area this week! We were able to meet some really awesome people this week when we actually got time to go finding! Some of them set up times to meet with us later so hopefully we can get some new investigators!

This week I spent a totally of 24 hours translating because of all the zone conferences we held. This time was pretty fun though because President Jergensen invited us to travel out to some of the other areas with him and do it there as well. It was a lot of fun! There are still a lot of things that I don't understand though. For example I attached a word I had to look up last night at our FHE. I also attached a picture of the group of us. It was a lot of fun and the person I am sitting next to is a new investigator we found this week! His name is Robert.

Not much else happened this week but we did find an amazing store here that sells waffles with anything you could imagine on them. I got a barbecue chicken waffle sandwich but you can literally get anything. And it's delicious.

That's it! Love you all!

March 11, 2018

Well this week was a very busy week for us. On Monday we went Lazer Tagging again for the P-Day but it's fun because we have new people every time.

This last week we had to help other missionaries move into their new house so we spent about 9 hours getting everything moved and cleaned up for them. We also had a Zone Conference here so I spent the whole day translating again. We did exchanges with the Zone Leaders this weekend which was also great.

This week we were able to make a lot of missionary progress in our area. We were able to get out of the office for at least 2 hours every night for the last couple days which was a big change. We are still trying to get investigators to teach but it has been fun to be out working on the streets.

On Friday when we were working in the office we got a surprise visit...

Elder Stevenson is President Jergensen's neighbor and co-worker so he stopped by and visited with them before he finished his trip to the Taizhong Mission so we got to meet him as well. It was a very fun surprise!

Elder Holderness

March 4, 2018

Sorry!  Every one of my emails seems to be about the same now days!

This week was totally great!  We had MLC again and also the Recent Convert Fireside so I was just translating for those as usual.  Right now in our mission President Jergensen is trying to get all the missionaries in the mission to open their mind to what they need to do to get one baptism every month and it has really helped people to focus and work effectively all the time.

Elder Hong and I have been trying our best in our area but this last week just wasn't the best week for us!  We had three potential lessons set up with new people but they all canceled on us so we didn't get to meet with any of them yet!  That's ok though because we still are working with them and trying to reschedule.

Everything is awesome here in Taiwan!  I love it so much!  I wish everyone could get this experience but that's kind of impossible so just take my word for it and know it is amazing!

Love you all!

Elder Holderness

Video clip of Brian driving mission van with his companion courtesy of Elder Hanson.