April 7th Letter (General Conference)

Hi the family! 

It's your favorite Son, Brother and miscellaneous almost not teenager anymore person/stud! That's right! I am Lindsay Lohan! *mixed cheering and booing*

Yeah...so anyway. I've lost 4.8Kg this week. How? probably my water intake and no deep-fried chicken legs every day. I'm gonna need new clothes before too long! ;) They can mostly pass for now. I look fat in them cuz they're too big. Maybe I'll take a picture of me stretching my pants out to show how much weight I've lost. 

My new area DouLiu is great! I misheard the name of the main area though. I said it was JIA yi but is CHIA yi. We're looking good to baptize this move call, although I've only met one of our investigators because a Taiwan holiday took all the young people out of town to their parent's houses. The one kid I did meet has only met with missionaries 3 times now and he's probably the most solid person I've seen so far. His parents don't agree, but said he can get baptized after testing is over at the beginning of June. No biggie. 

Last night we went to a family's house for dinner; the last person to get baptized just did it the Saturday before I got here. So they wanted to feed us steak but we got there and they hadn't cooked it yet. My loving companion told them I'm the "#1 steak chef" and guess who cooked everyone's steak in their kitchen? It was a good rib-cut and was tender...too bad Taiwan isn't too into "undercooked" meat. Well-done is Taiwan's choice 90% of the time. 

Elder S and I get along great.  He's super fun-loving and he's really funny. All the members seem to love him. He jokes around with them and does good things. He works hard and plays hard.

New food! Tofu milk (the family we ate dinner with accidentally made it when cooking tofu in water). I had beef tongue soup again as well. 

My bike broke. the axle snapped. Those are only about 4-6 USD I think. I'm borrowing a member's bike for the moment. 

On Friday we took a train to the main part of ChiaYi and participated in grave-sweeping day. I got interviewed by a reporter while setting a giant weed fire. YAY! I enjoyed it. it was basically an excuse for me to go burn stuff...Til it started pouring. ;) First 5 days this week were soaking wet. Sheets of rain for hours.

We went to a different member's house for dinner another night. The husband is white. They have a son and an adopted daughter and a white/orange kitty cat. they fed us pizza and lava cake. The grandmother was visiting from California too. They're a super fun family!

My apartment is on the 13th floor of an apartment building (top floor) right next to the train tracks. It's about 4x bigger than DaKeng's apartment, but still only has one bathroom. 

I think that covers it for me this week. Can't wait to see conference! Thanks for the conference highlights. I heard the stats about missionaries from a member in our ward. Crazy!