March 31st Letter (Easter)

Wow!!!  Another month has gone by!  Chris has changed companions twice and has entered a new area.  We'll have a few posts to get caught up.  This one is from his letter on March 31.


Happy Easter to you! Nobody in Taiwan knew that it was Easter. ;) Kinda sad, but understandable.

Mom, yep, I have transfers! DouLiu is apparently a lot less populated than DaKeng and there's only a branch, not a ward. That also probably means that my area won't have other missionaries in it (sometimes areas are kind of shared. DaKeng also has Sister missionaries that go to BeiTun as well). There's also supposed to be good fruit and vegetables there too. I'm excited!

There was, indeed, a 6.1 earthquake in Taiwan. And oh man, did I feel it. :) The walls in the storage section of our apartment where cracked pretty good! . The earthquake was felt in China and Japan apparently too. 

We had 3 Elders in my companionship this weekend. Elder F's last companion is training, so he came to live with us. He's also replacing me in DaKeng. All 3 of us are from Utah. He has 12 siblings! crazy! :) I've heard my new companion, Elder S, is really good. We'll see how it goes ;)

This week's quote also comes from Elder F; He was doing pushups and stuff and to motivate himself he says "I'm Batman!" Jeremy would love him.

I ate more Bing this week. Mangoes are just getting in-season and they are GOOD! Seriously, best. fruit. ever. I'm gonna get addicted to mangoes.

In other news, G (our awesome black investigator from Africa) is progressing. He bought us lunch this week and we gave him a Book of Mormon and he committed to read and pray about it! He asks a lot of questions and likes to try to "confound" us, but if he truly reads and prays, he'll know it's true. 

We also have 2 new investigators we met on the road and they're both really good! One is SUPER solid for baptism (probably in May). He wanted to see the font and even went inside it. 

We have 2 new families to teach as well! YAY!

We met with S and her daughters again and they fed us for free and fixed a flat tire on my bike (which also might have a broken 'hub', whatever that it. I'll get it checked this week). Saying bye to them was hard...I promised I'd come back and visit them after my mission. S told me to bring "Xiao WuZhangLao", small Elder Wolf (my kid), when I come again. She wants grandchildren. lol. 

I also helped with the Dan Jones for new missionaries again, but because a few Elders didn't make it to Taiwan yet, I didn't get a greenie to take around, so I took pictures. It started pouring right when it started :) Rain is fun.