hopefully...less words, more pictures

Gewei dixiong jiemei dajia zao annnnnnn! wo chaoji ai nimen. wasei xie pinyin zhende hen nan. wo xianzai pingchang dou xie zhongwen zi. haiyou nimen yiding kan bu dong wo xiede. zaogao. youkeneng Dave hui kandedong zhege. wo bu xiaode. danshi wo ai nimen!!! wo hui xie yingwen...haobuhao? ps. Dave xie xie yizhi zhaogu wode jiating. zhende hen ai ni! erqie wo hen kaixin women mingnian keyi yiqi shuo zhongwen. tai bang le! 

I have no idea if Dave will understand that because their are no tones.. It's simple though so he probably will get it.

There isn't a whole lot to say (except that I want to dance the rest of my life) since this week was short. I'll give you a few highlights.

Yesterday in the last hour of church right before we finished up the fire alarm went off. SO HILARIOUS! Everyone just sat around for a second. And I thought oh this is funny no ones moving.. I believe it was because of shock. Then we just hear some screaming coming from primary and see children running frantically looking for mom. It was a very loud fire alarm. And so random.. well we got downstairs.. Turns out it wasn't a drill. Lol. An electrical wire got too hot and burned up... Small fire and no damage done. Just a good story. (:

This past Wednesday we got to go to the temple.. which I guess I already told you about. But after the temple we went shopping. I love shopping here. Everything is so hip. And so cheap! And I've been wearing the same clothes for a year starting tomorrow. Eeek! Well I guess not really because I've been buying new clothes and wearing other people's... I know for sure though that at the end of my mission I'll definitely go on a major shopping spree and bring home all new clothes because heaven knows I don't want to revamp my wardrobe in America where everything is expensive.

Next last Wednesday evening was my first children's english class. It went really well. JJ (my recent convert) helped me co-teach which was good. It was still a little rusty but now that I've taught one I think I'll know how to teach others. I love teaching! And I love dancing. I should just teach dancing...

Then the next day we went back up to Taibei for temple tours. Our first tour was to three people from France... so it was in English.. and my companion doesn't speak English.. So it was rusty. We didn't have really any preparation for people from France. I just kept thinking of all my friends and family who served missions in France and I thought--- I'm glad I'm in Taiwan.

Then on Friday we went on exchanges. So I spent the evening and Saturday with Sister Ashcraft from Brigham city... it was so weird to speak English... I didn't realize that I've been speaking Chinese all day everyday for three weeks. Weird.

Then on Saturday evening we had a lesson with Sister Lin's cousin that we met. He is desperately in need of the gospel so it was really cool to teach him about the Plan of Salvation. He was so excited to take a Book of Mormon and said he's gonna try praying a lot. I know it'll help bring him a lot of comfort. We're meeting with him again on Friday.

Little brothers-- do your homework. work hard. You'll appreciate your hard work later in life.. And Garrett-- get your eagle scout.. why? because driving is wicked fun and I just wish I could drive my car again... riding a bike everywhere is much slower than driving!