Tuesday, November 29, 2016

November 27, 2016 - Thanksgiving Right Into Christmas

Dear Family and Friends,

This week was a good one. At the beginning of the week I was bedridden. I couldn't move because of pain. You might ask "Why is that a good thing?" It was pouring torrential rain outside and our humble Taibao was very empty to say the least. So my companion got to avoid the nasty weather and rest for a bit and take care of his sick companion. 

​I asked Elder Cox if I could wear a scarf instead of a tie... he said "only if you wear it like a tie... so I did!" haha!
很帥! Obviously I didn't go out like that but I really thought about it. 


​On Thanksgiving we went and ate some turkey but... It was very anti climactic... That is our Thanksgiving feast right there. To be honest we went and got another dinner because this was very unsatisfying. Haha! 



Also on this holiday of thanks we had a special encounter on the bus with a bunch of Australians! There was 20 or more of them here to study Taiwanese socialized medicine. They were all doctors and nurses. I told them of the pain I was having in my head and body and they said I should go and see and acupuncturist or go get a massage. I readily agreed but no time really! It was so nice to talk to them on the bus, even though they weren't from my country they kind of felt like family... probably just because they spoke English. 

We found some old Christmas stuff in our apartment this week so we decorated the next day because everyone knows that the day after Thanksgiving is the day Christmas becomes legal. We have Christmas music going all the time now and we sing Christmas songs in our studies. 



We had 5 people at church this week even though it was pouring rain. Brother Wu is having his baptismal interview tomorrow and will be baptized in the next upcoming weeks. Sister Wong met with us at a member's house. She is great we explained the Plan of Salvation, she has a lot of questions about it what we teach. She and I get along really well, we are hoping she will be baptized in the end of December.  Our new investigators, the twins are super cool they come to everything and are super sassy! They have a little bit of potty mouth but it makes us laugh to watch them sass each other every second of the day. Sister Zhang and Sister Zhang they definitely make everything very interesting. 

I have been working on my balance... I hear standing on your head stimulates hair growth hopefully this will keep me from going bald! haha! 



We emailed a little early because we are going to take the high speed rail to Taizhong to visit my old companion Elder White!! The high speed rail travels at nearly 200 miles per hour so we will get there in 20ish minutes when it is normally almost 2 hours! Pretty cool eh?


Well I love you all!  

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