Dear Family and Friends,
This week, since my companion was sick and it rained a lot, you would all die of boredom from my normal format of email.
So I decided I will share just a little bit about YongKang and some miracles. There is a place here in Yong Kang that we go to eat curry rice. It is super good. It is just a family shop not far from the church. They have a pet Labrador Retriever who spends his days laying in the kitchen... In America this would be illegal... in Taiwan it is just cute!
The second picture also kind of has to do with dogs and the dead. This is a graveyard and if you zoom in you can see a momma dog sitting on a grave and two babies at the front. There are packs of dogs that live in these graveyards. They are super cute but really sad that this is their life circumstance.
I experienced a miracle on Sunday. We were our way to an Easter dinner at the other elder's apartment. I was turning left, I signaled and looked and was already half way through the intersection when a punk on a motorcycle tried to go around me on the left side. We collided and somehow didn't crash... we both wobbled to a standing position and everyone was safe when I should have been T-boned. Even with all of that, we had a lovely Easter.
I also remember my mom a couple weeks ago asked about our church building. It is actually rather large... one of the bigger ones in Taiwan, and much bigger than anything in America. It has been under construction for the whole time I have been here, so I have been waiting to take a picture of it but I think this might be my last week in YongKang so I best send a picture now. Transfers are this week and I've been in the Tainan area for 3 months and in the Taichung mission, that's a long time to stay in one area, so a transfer could be coming my way.
I have included a pic of Elder Wills on the brink of death. We have had a difficult week but you have to look at the bright side of things like....puppies in graveyards and cute old dogs in the cafe.
Mom, Thank you so much for the fun spring package! I loved the cereal! You can get certain cereal here but not those brands and it is really expensive, so I have never bought it. They have Jell-o in this French store called Carrefour, but also never bought it or even went shopping there. I literally died with the lucky charms... so good!!!
I want to teach our family a Chinese word every week so that when I get home I can still use some very useful Chinese words.
The word this week is shuai it is said "sh'" like you want someone to be quiet and "why" shwhy, it means handsome or cool. Here is an example of shuai used in a sentence. Josh's new haircut is super shuai! It is really a useful word. You will have around 60 very useful words by the end of my mission.... I hope you have fun learning some Mandarin!
I love you all!
I hope you had a Happy Easter!
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