April 29, 2018

Well this week was great! The highlight happened last Saturday when one of the sisters' investigators got baptized! She asked me to baptize her too so I was able to attend the service.

We did some spring cleaning here for the mission office and cleaned up the B3 floor of the chapel across the street which is kind of our mission's warehouse. We now have rows of fridges and washing machines perfectly organized and lots of trash removed!

We had a fun YSA family home evening last night with all the single's from our stake there. It was super fun and really fun to see so many recent converts come together and share their testimonies. The converts are the best part of missionary work. The change they go through from their baptism to just a couple of months after is huge.

Love you all! Elder Holderness

April 22, 2018

Hello and good morning from Taiwan! Sorry I never emailed last week, the temple day made me a little bit too busy because half the mission was around the office.

I loved being able to go to the temple as I always do, especially in Chinese. The Taiwan temple isn't big but the memories I have associated with it are some of my favorites. This weekend I am going to go with Jim from Banqiao so I am super excited for that too!

The last two weeks were awesome! We got to meet with our awesome investigator again and are going to again tomorrow! He has so many different questions about the Plan of Salvation and I am super excited to teach him about! He just needs to read the Book of Mormon so that he can start learning some of the answers by himself!

Love you all! Elder Holderness

April 17, 2018

Temple Week for Brian...

Sorry the day end up just kind of disappearing and me being busy helping other people through out it all and I don't really have anything to write about.

I'm doing alright though and I'll talk to you in just a couple of days, love you!

April 8, 2018

This isn't my last transfer on my mission but this was the last one that I will have to plan so I am super excited! It went super smoothly this time and I didn't get a single phone call the whole day asking about their travel plans.

The surprise for me came the night before transfers when our president decided that he wants to prepare a new office elder for the mission president right now, rather than later so my companion, Elder Hong left and I got a new companion, Elder Zhang. He is from the same ward as Elder Hong actually. My third companion in a row from their stake.

We finally got to watch general conference this week and it was amazing! I loved being able to watch all the different talks and there were so many amazing messages shared!

Love you all! Elder Holderness

April 1, 2018

Well this week went super well for us! We were able to find a super awesome new investigator that had so much interest in the Restoration of the Gospel! It was awesome to be able to give him a tour of our chapel here and explain the restoration using all the paintings that we have.

The rest of the week I didn't actually do too much but it was an awesome week! I was just in the office getting some new things ready for the transfers coming up this week and I was also helping all the senior couples in the office get their computers working because we have 5 senior missionaries going home this month and lots of computer processes need to be passed on to different people.

I love it here in Taiwan and I love being able to share about the Gospel whenever I get the chance! Even if my emails are really boring!

Love you all! Elder Holderness