I'll try to make this email good but the
keyboard I'm using is the pits so i'm sorry if it ends up being lame. First, I
love you all and I hope things are going well at home!
Okay scary story. So we went to the church for
a lesson on Thursday evening. It was already getting dark outside. When we got
to the gate at the church we found it closed but unlocked. Then we noticed a
light on in the building. We checked and saw that the elders weren't there. We
went up to the church and the door was locked. We unlocked it and headed
inside.The church was dark except for the light from upstairs. We checked the
rooms on the first floor. Nothing. We headed up to the second floor where the light
was. It was all dark except one light in the hallway. We heard eerie piano
music coming from the kitchen we headed in and tried the door, it was locked.
The music stopped. We freaked ourselves out and started to walk quickly away.
The music started again but we weren't going to stay. We went outside the
church grounds and sat down while waiting for the elders to come for their
lesson they had and check it out. Turns out it was the relief society
president. She was there early to help us in a lesson. So not scary at all, but
we had ourselves worked up pretty good.
Also I started reading the Book of Mormon in
Chinese. I read a chapter a day! I recognize the majority of the characters.
It's totally awesome to find things there that I hadn't found in English.
Pretty much I love the Book of Mormon. And I love Chinese. Little brothers: BE
THE WARNED! The summer I get home we're having Chinese lessons. You two are
going to learn this language and love it too (:
The miracle lady who came to church last week cancelled
our lesson because things came up. But she made it to church again this week
and re set up to meet with us! She loves church! And I love her.
Last week we went to this awesome pizza place
for lunch. I could die. So good. Thin crust brick oven pizza! Delicious! And we
always have it with the worlds best lemonade. Come to Taiwan and I'll show you
all around Xin Zhuang. This place has a big part of my heart and will forever.
Also my companion and I are addicted to
chocolate. We eat probably way too much of it. Stress eating. Eek. I'm gonna
get fat!
This week we were busy...but we also had a lot
of people cancel on us. We had 12 lessons cancel. Not gonna lie-- that's a
little disheartening because I want to see these people, but we'll overcome this
small set back and blessings will follow.
Also-- I have no idea if I told you all about
L. He's this african man that used to live in our complex. We ran into him
one night and he asked if we could find time to sit and talk sometime. Thinking
he was interested in the gospel I told him I'd get him in touch with the
Elders. We exchanged information and he said he'd sms me some time (the means
text.. which I had no idea). My companion helped me later to discover that he
was asking me out for Saturday. Well that was a month ish ago. Obviously I
didn't go out with him. He called once which I didn't realize until way after
the fact and he texted twice-- the second text he was obviously really upset
that I never answered. Well just the other day after a lesson that our
investigator didn't show up to, my companion was locking the church gate while
I talked to pan jm. Lamine totally saw and came over. It was so awkward and I'm
pretty sure he was REALLY offended. I really should just give him to the elders
as a referral and let them take care of it. Yuck.
Also we were teaching this awesome 8 year old
the lessons. She's so great... but we just found out at the end of our last
lesson when we tried to set a baptismal date that she's actually only 7. Way to
go. Needless to say, we're not teaching her anymore. She'll get baptized after
I'm already back in Virginia. Lol.
While at her lesson though her aunt gave us
this drink... so gross. It tasted like apple juice mixed with vinegar. I
thought I would die. It cringed to get it down.
Speaking of eating weird things... I have now
officially eaten pidan (1000 year old egg). Not a fan. It was in a soup that
they fed us after church. It just tasted like metal and acid and it was not a
happy taste. You can look that one up... I'm pretty sure it's not healthy.
Does America have any food that is weird like that?
Lastly I have to tell you about yesterday. YOU
DO NOT KNOW RAIN IN VIRGINIA! Biking in it is super fun.. and also the pits at
the same time, but mostly super fun.
We got a referral whose appointment was already
set up for us. We met with her yesterday. We were already on the road when the
storm hit (big big storm. like street flooding, wind blowing, thunder and
lightening crashing storm. not to mention that the rain is acidic so
when it got in our eyes it burned like crazy) so we pressed on in the
madness until we got to her house (with getting lost though we had to carry our
bikes down a large set of stairs and back up on the other side... it was interesting,
my companion compared that part to the women's pull at trek). When we finally
got there she saw how wet we were and gave us clothes to change into so she
could stick ours in the dryer. So we taught her lesson while wearing her
t-shirts and sweat pants. It was so hilarious! And we are a little bigger than
her but it was good. The lesson went well. She's really interested and has a
lot of good questions. She was scared to say the closing prayer but she
committed to next time doing it and instead I helped her 6 year old daughter
say a prayer. I think that really touched her. Overall--good experience. (:
Well that's all for this week. The christlike
attribute I'm working on is patience for sure. I love the work. All of you
should do your part too.
Be safe! Be healthy! Be wise!
Love you all!
Cae
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| This would be our all time favorite dog, mr. pan. or mochi (sp?). He is the dog of perhaps my favorite family in taiwan. and he LOVES americans |
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