1 Week Remaining -March 23, 2014

March 23, 2014

LAST EMAIL!!!

Well this is it!! The last email home!! I can’t believe it’s here. The time has flown. I still don't feel like I’m going home this week. 

Well, we had pretty good week this past week.

Sister He got baptized and it went really well. We also had a zone conference. We received some training from the mission president. We also had stake conference. Another cool thing that happened is that two weeks ago, we ran into Zhang Ren Kui outside of the subway. He is a recent convert that we baptized back in November, but since has gone less active. We hadn’t been able to get a hold of him, so I was happy to run into him. We met with him this past week and are trying to help him get active again.

Lastly, I just want to say that I have loved my mission and I’m so sad to be leaving these wonderful Taiwanese people. I'm so grateful that through serving a mission & focusing on others, God has sculpted me more and more into the person that he wants me to be. This is only a start in an eternal process. I love my mission! It has influenced me in such a way that I’m changed forever!

God is love! See everyone really soon.

Love,

Elder Chatman

People put red stuff around their doors to try and bless their house and bring themselves good luck.  It is like the symbolism of the blood that they put around at the time of Moses.

This is Jordan playing a Taiwanese game at a mental hospital.  It was a service thing that he was doing while on exchanges in Sanxia.

This is under the basement at some of the other elders' apartment.  It is full of scooters. On exchanges in SanXia. In the far middle is a hilarious, Elder Martin. Jordan went on exchanges with the Sanxia Elders once a week his last transfer per instructions from the illustrious ex-AP Elder Tay

This is a family that Jordan went to for dinner - Xu2 Jia1ting.  Dixiong (Ivan) served his mission in Texas perfect English and loved basketball. His wife served in the Taizhong mission.  Jordan thought they were super cool.

This is Jordan at the Ding Family's house for dinner. They had the missionaries over a lot when Jordan served in the ward, TuCheng ward. They had all six missionaries from the ward over - Sister Gummow, Sister Gruwell, Elder Martin, Elder Hawkins, Jordan, and his companion Elder Miller

This is a place along side of the road where the lady is doing eyebrows with a string.

She is using her mouth to hold the string as she does the girl's eyebrows.  

This is a haircutting spot along the side of a road.

This is Sister He.  She got baptized by Jordan right before he came home off his mission.  He was happy about that.

This is a view from Jordan's apartment in Taipei.  He could see 7-11 from his window.  7-11 were on almost every street corner in Taiwan. A one mile radius in Taipei would likely include five 7-11s.