Sunday, April 3, 2011

Native Companion

Hey Awesome family you are so amazing!

Thank you for the photos, I love them, I am grateful that you all are having fun in Sunny St George. I love hearing from you thank you.

This week was a week of change. My Companion is an Elder Fan4. He is 28 years old and he had some great faith, because he had not been a member for over a year yet. He is from the southern Part of Taiwan and he thinks that it is cold here, even though it is 70's+ I think that it is funny. anyway I am adjusting to working with a part time Taiwanese missionary, because they do work differently than other missionary's do. I think that I have adjusted alittle bit but there is more that needs to happen before we can be the best that we can be. My companion Elder Fan will be here for the whole transfer and so it is like I'm training a new missionary, almost, he will have served for two months by the time that he leaves and so he served for a month before he came to xin zhu. He is interesting, had quite a few differences but we are working to find the balance.

This week turned out pretty good. My companion did not send his stuff, his bike, until the day that he came here, so this posed for some problems as we had appointments to get to on opposite sides of our area. Thanks to a member that we were able contact we were able to go and get it done. His bike came on Tuesday afternoon, which was good that is got here quickly, usually it takes about two days to get to the destination, but it got here and we were able to go and do work that night.

Last week it warmed up, we had days where it was 29-32 degrees c and so it has been great I love it. Taiwan is a dirty enough place and there is so much junk in the Air that you can not seen the moutians though, and at night you are luck to see a star, but I love to see the sun, I talk with my companion All the time, the people in Taiwan are not as happy as they could be, they need to see the sun, if they could see the sun they would be so much better. I love seeing the Sun.

Ok. you asked about shoes, I am in Nike shoes now. I have used them for along time, and they have been good. I think that just whatever they got at the rack. I know that all shoes are not created equal but I'm not going to need them to compete in events or anything. thank you so much.

I went to costco last week and I learned that my card has expired. so don't worry that. I wrote last week and asked about it. They said that I could get a new card here, but there are not a ton of Costcos here in Taiwan. So don't worry about it. There are members that have card and if we need something that bad we can ask them to help us go there and use theirs.

I need to go I Love you all. I know that Jesus Christ lives and that He has given us hope for a better life both for this earth and the next. I know that we are known and that our Father in heaven Loves us. I know that the Bok of Mormon is true and that we can grow closer as a family, friends and people if we will listen to what it tells us to do. I'm sorry there is not so much time today. It is somthing that I'm going to change to adjust for my companion for today anyway. I will email about the same time next week.

Love you all, have fun and be safe. Know that I am thinking about you. 1.2.3 I LOVE YOU

Elder Harr