Tuesday, October 15, 2013

24 Weeks Remaining- October 15, 2013

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Well, after 8 months in SongShan, I got transferred. It is bitter sweet. I loved the area, our converts, investigators, and members, but I'm excited to be able to go to a new area and ward. I got transferred to Tucheng which is the west part of Taipei. It's not as much of the big city as my last area (which was in the heart of the city.) So the people are a lot less hectic and more people are willing to talk to us. My new companion is Elder Bastian from Seattle and we are the zone leaders. He's super cool. He ran track at BYU in 2012. So we love chatting it up about the sports world. He just moved into the area 6 weeks ago so we'll probably have a fun couple transfers together. Right now, I'm just getting acquainted with the new area and meeting the investigators. They haven't had a baptism in our area since like June or July so we are hoping to have some in the next few transfers.

Last Saturday and Sunday,  we got to watch General Conference in English at our church. (This is when the apostles and the prophet speak to the church.) I loved it. Elder Ballard's talk about missionary work was great and we are going to try and make sure all of our members heard it.

It was super weird at the last missionary transfer meeting because the eight sisters I was in the MTC with finished their missions and went home! They gave their final testimonies and then left for home. It is crazy how time flies.

Anyways gotta go. we are going to the temple today.
Love,
Elder Chatman

These are pictures that a member in Taiwan (ma ma Wu) facebooked to Leah.  She friended her and then tagged all these pictures of Jordan for her.  It was so great!!

Dinner with the Ward Mission and ward members at Tastys.

Pday trip to JiLong rock zoo exhibit/ocean.

Jordan and his companion Elder Anderson being shuai(handsome cool) after a party at Bao4 Jiating for Tiffany Bao. She was leaving on her mission to Minnesota.



Farewell party at Bao Jia1ting2's house for Tiffany Pao.

Above and Below - Pday adventure with the other missionaries in the Song1 Shan1 ward- Sister Croft, Sister O'Brian, Elder Anderson, Elder Chen and his companion Elder Bennion that Wu Mama took them on.


Below - Pday adventure continued...flying lanterns that you draw on and guys at the area light on fire and float up into the air.


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