Week 31- November 26, 2012

Week 31

November 26, 2012

Hey everyone,

We are getting into the bad weather over here. It is starting to pour rain everyday which is not fun at times because we have to go out and bike in it, which is a mess. Plus when it rains, the Taiwanese hibernate...literally, they are scared of the rain and sun (and Taiwan is just about only those 2 things so I’m not sure why they are living here. J) For example, this Wednesday, it started raining and only 4 people out of 20 showed up for English class because of it. But when it’s not raining, the temperature is perfect.

I guess I’ll give you a quick day by day run down. Monday night, we traveled about 45 min out to Beitou where we had Family Home Evening (an evening set aside for families to have a lesson and be together each week) with a Brother from Mexico and wife. Our recent convert from India lives out there also, so we wanted to take him to it. Tuesday, we had district meeting (our district consists of 3 companionship of elders). Then we had another Family Home Evening that night with a family in the Chinese ward who is getting sealed soon. Tuesday, we met with a recent convert named Julio from the Philippians and taught him a scripture in Mosiah about how through the enabling power of the Atonement, Christ can make our burdens light. After him, we met with Lin Zhi Wen. He owns a store here where they sell a food called hot pot. He recently has been going through a hard time because he had some Vietnamese people staffing for him, but their papers expired. So they were here illegally for a bit and then they got caught. So they got sent back to Vietnam. So we discussed with him about keeping God commandments and coming to Church. He hasn't made any progress since I've been here because he's unwilling to keep commitments beside prayer. Thursday, our ward mission leader (who actually lives in Portland - Brother Skanky), drove us up to the Bishop’s house on a big hill where a lot of the English ward members live. We had Thanksgiving dinner up there with the Bishop’s family and some other families in the ward. The food was ridiculously good. The Bishop went all out for this dinner. We had turkey, rolls, mashed potatoes, stuffing, pumpkin pie, the whole sha-bang! So good!! I felt so lucky because all of the other missionaries didn't get to do anything because it isn’t celebrated here. Friday and Saturday, I went on exchanges with the district leader, Elder Robinson. He is from California and played high school football. So it was nice to finally talk to someone that plays sports. Taipei 101 is in his area and we did some tracting and less-active visits near it. The area is really ghetto surrounding Taipei 101 until you get up right close to it and then it is super high tech. Then Saturday, we taught a sweet lesson about the Plan of Salvation to one of their investigators. That is it for this week...

I just want to say that I know without a doubt that this Church is true and it is Jesus Christ’s true church and gospel restored to the Earth today, just like when Jesus was on the earth. If you are reading this and you aren’t a member of our church, I would encourage you to talk to the missionaries and set up a time to meet with them. Meeting with missionaries doesn’t mean you have to join the church or anything. They just want to teach you a true message that will bring more happiness to your life than you can ever imagine. Hit them up and give it a try. It won’t hurt to try and wouldn’t it be worth it to know for a fact for yourself if our church is true of not? Either way, I love you guys. God is love!

Elder Chatman