This story starts last Saturday. We were going to meet with a man named Daniel Huang3, he is one of our best investigators right now and he is working on overcoming a problem with the word of wisdom. when we taught him the word of wisdom about two weeks ago he said he wanted to quit smoking and now is down to half of what he was smoking before. Well he had work Saturday morning and afternoon and our time to meet was in the evening. That day for lunch a co-worker invited him to go to lunch on his lunch hour with the rest of the office. Sounds good so they all went. When they sat down to eat they had a good some what big meal put before them that was really good. Now here's the problem. After he had eaten the food he started to feel dizzy and got a headache. He asked his friend what was in the food and his friend told him that he wanted to flavor the food really well so he had put a bunch of alcohol in the food. Well Daniel does not really drink, and the alcohol was not cooked out all the way and so poor Daniel was drunk. He went home early from work and called me and said I'm sooo sorry but it is not safe for me to drive to the church to meet with you and I live a ways away, can we set up another day? Kind of sad because he couldn't meet with us but kind of funny in that he is doing so well. He is doing amazing and then his friend gets him drunk without asking him if he wanted to.
This is story number one. These photos are from last Preparation day we went to see the Dragon Boat Races. Fun stuff. We went and flew a kite after.
OK so lets see this week was interesting we had some weird meetings that we are still trying to find out how to proceed. This last week we met with a man that had met with missionary's before and we where asked to meet with him by a member. YES Member referral the best in the world. But this men is interesting. When we met with him last week he pulled out a DVD and wanted to show us a part of a movie we told him that it was OK but he put it in anyway saying that his was his view on church and that this was what he thought so me and my companion are lost can't he just tell us his view we said again let's just talk about it and he said basically said no I've watched your movies and now you can watch this part. OK what could it hurt. Well he put in a movie about the Dark ages and the wars and battles that when on in that time and it had several actual people from history in this story. After we watched a part he said "I am like this man I don't belong to any church and yet I am the only one that it still going to do good. All the other people use the church and the churches name, they all use Jesus Christ to get power." Well, we bore testimony and we told him that this is why we needed a restoration because that time there was a lot a of unjust things that happened, and then we left. Wow. Interesting there are so many people that do, do good and do, do bad. I am glad that I know that this church is true because it is the same with everything, if you look hard enough you will always find the bad.
Another story for this week: this week at English class we had alot of new people like 8 new people! They all had heard about English class that week or through a friend. Five of the eight lived in my area and 4 of those five set up to meet with us one of these people is Allen. Allen is really cool. We met him on Wed, met with him on Saturday and taught him a bunch. Then invited him to come to church. He showed up on time in a shirt and tie. This was a miracle. We wanted to invite him for baptism but when we invited him to come to church he was like maybe I just want to understand what his church is about right now. Anyway, he came ready to learn and had a good time. There are always prepared people where ever you are you just need to find them.
Ok quickly about the bike. I am in contact with a Mr. White from specalized and he asked me so resend him some photos. Would you mine sending them to him please? I also gave Mr. White the email for Lukas. Could you see if they have been in contact about bike info? I'll call him later today to make sure that he got it but just to make sure please? Thank you. Also, I learned how to buy bike tires for my bike I just need to go through Taipei. I'm sorry that I had you buy that other tire. Hold onto it we'll use it there, and I'll buy one here and it will be cheaper then sending that one. I'm sorry I'm still learning.
Lookes like you all are having so much fun! Thank you for your thoughts and prayers, your awesome. So I'm including some more photos so that you can see a bit of Taiwan. The last one is a photo of my apartment building. There is also a few more photos of kites and going to play. Today we are going to go and play some basketball. It is going to be fun. I'll take more photos and give them to you.
You all are awesome. Have a great day. Know that I love you. Know that I know that this church is true. Know that I know that Book of Mormon is true. Know that I know that our Father in Heaven lives and that our Savior Jesus Christ is the Son of God. It is through the Holy Ghost that we too can know. I'm getting a bit short on time know that I love you.
Thank you for your support and love.
Love you, Praying for you
Elder Jed Harr
