Monday, April 29, 2013

April 28 Letter (Is your TP Tender?)

Elder C is really good. He's the first native missionary in DouLiu is a LONG time. He'll help a lot. His English is pretty good, we don't have problems communicating. We'll be fine. We've explored a lot of DouLiu this week and one of our secondary areas, Lin3Nei4. It was pouring the day we did that and it was a 40 minute bike ride each way for one lesson. lol.
English class is still confusing me. I asked President about it in my last email and he thinks my companion is Elder B, so he didn't quite understand my concern. lol. This week in English class we watched 17 miracles with Chinese subtitles. I don't know how to teach such a wide range of skill levels. Elder C might be able to teach the beginners class, but they really like native speakers to teach.

In other news, I'm wearing my contacts again. No problems anymore. I just wanted to be sure my eye was okay so I didn't make whatever it was any worse.

Random fact about Taiwan: When you think of toilet paper, how do sellers describe it? Soft? Strong? Absorbent? Most things have English on the package here, and an adjective I realized that they use to describe TP is "tender". Does that seem weird to anyone else? I get the meaning, but it's not quite the right word. "sorry, I only use tender tp on my backside." yeah...anyway...

A member called us on Tuesday and wanted us to come visit him. He's one of President B's converts from his mission. He lives a long time away, but we got there and he said thanks for coming and then told us to start moving potted plants and dirt down 4 flights of stairs for him. lol. I see what you did there Mr. H! So we helped him and they gave us barley flavored icee drinks. yummy! seriously, it wasn't too bad after the first sip.

We had a lesson with a less active member and he's gone back to smoking, drinking, using beetelnut, etc. He was basically a Taiwanese hippie and very extroverted. He basically said God loves us and if we love other people and God then we'll be okay.

So yeah, that's it for me!

Love you all!


Elder Wolf

P.S. 
before I forget, 
shake my vanilla!


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