Awesome family wow your running so fast remember to breath! It sounds like your all very busy doing so many things remember that I love you and pray that you all are doing good.
Wow 38 cubs to the shooting range wow that's so many. You always are doing so much good. It sounds like you are running lots of water around. When I left we had like 6 stops now it sounds like you have more and you are very busy keeping them filled. Keep doing good, keep running and catch a breath every now and then!
Wow, lets see this week there was a ton that happened, so here it goes...
Monday: for p-day we wanted to take my bike to get it fixed and so I pulled the money to go and do it because Monday is a day that we could have be slower and we would be able to pick it up on Tuesday morning, right? Nope because they are not opened on Mondays! And they don't open until Tuesday... I thought the website said was 11:00am. OK, so because Tuesday was a busy day and it needed to happen Monday night I striped my bike and got it ready to just switch out the frame. I decided that by the time I got it up there and dropped it off and rode the very little bike around for a day and a half and then rode back there to pick it up the time would be a bit quicker if I just did it, and and so I did! Monday night I took of all the stuff and got it ready for the transfer and then I rode to the bike shop Tuesday morning. We didn't have anything planed on Tuesday morning and so we said well lets contact up to the bike shop, pick up the frame, and then during lunch I can put it all back together. Well, they didn't open until 1:00 and so we decided to lock it to a pole and then go and do work we while we are waiting. We contacted some people and were trying to teach them but nobody wants to or has time to stop for very long and talk and so we didn't get much done. We took a later lunch and picked up the frame, and then went home to put it back together quickly. It was good because we needed to update some records and make some calls that my companion did while I was finishing up. It looked great. I didn't get a picture of the bike right after I put it together on this card so I'll send that next week. I got it all back together and working in about an hour and 15 min. Good timing! So that was through Tuesday afternoon.
Tuesday: so once we get it together we had a less active that we needed to go and visit. So we went to find the address OK. We get there, he opens the door and sees its us and says "hi" and tries to open the door but his door is a key lock on both sides. You need a key to get in and out. Funny. Well this was a older man, like late 70's early 80's and he reached for his keys to let us in and they where not there. He didn't have his keys to get in and out. Funny were standing there, excited to get to talk to him and get to know him, but he can't let us in because he lost his keys. So when he sees that they are not there he turns around and tries to find them, and tries to remember where he put them. H can't find them, so he comes back to the door and asks us if they are on the outside of the door. They weren't there. He looked at us and said "Sorry," then he used his hand to hit is head lightly saying I don't remember where I put them. "I'm sorry can you come back another day?" Funny. This poor older man, locked in his house. We asked him if he would be OK and if there was someone else who had a key and he said "no, that he lived by himself and that he could not remember where they where, but that he would be fine and to go and to come back another day." Oh funny.
Wednesday was a busy day. In the afternoon we had district meeting and that went smoothly. The mission is focusing on unity especially in Mosiah 24 and 25, and how that story can help us be more unified and one in purpose and in our goals. It is good we all need to know that the Lord calls leaders to help us and we all need to follow him and and trust that this is the Lord's will at this time. It does not mean that they are perfect but it does mean that they are called and we all need to be unified. So that is the mission focus for this month. After district meeting we had English meeting and English class. Went smoothly, my companion and I teach the kids and so last time we took a bunch of small things and put them in a bag and had them try to describe it to the class. Once they had all done one we played uno.
Thursday: In the morning at 8:30 my companion had a training meeting that he had to go to. I went on exchanges with Elder Child's. He is the one who kicked me out of shipai and he is still there. It is crazy. I am on my 4th area. He has been there for 6 transfers now. So we went on exchanges and tried to do work. We talked to a bunch of people and didn't find anything. We tried to find contacts until lunch and then we went to eat lunch and wait for our companions to get back because at 1:00 we have WPS ( Weekly planing session). It's a mission rule that it starts at one and so we have lunch and we call them up and and they are still there at the training. We talked for a bit and decided to go and do work. They called, and we got started late like 2:30. That night was booked, but sadly all the appointments cancelled on us or they stood us up. That's the story of a missionary trying to meet with people and they "fang Ni de gezi" "stand you up!"
Friday we where able to hit the road and go and do some good street contacting. We went on exchanges with the Zone leaders and were contacting. We worked hard and he tried to really testify. It was all rejection for us. We found a few people who said that they might have time that they could meet later and so that was good. We had a kid that set up on Sunday but he stood us up. He did call us 25 min latter and said "oh sorry my dad won't let me go." That's too bad I wonder sometimes why people don't show. This kinda opened another view for me... the Taiwan culture is that you don't get married until you are about 30. You have a good job, you have a house and you have some money in the bank, so when they are under 26 they are still treated like little kids in that they cannot do anything without asking permission. It is different. We have had a 50 year old men tell us that his parents will not let him meet with us. Different.
Saturday more of the same it had been raining for awhile and so we did some tracting and didn't see a ton of success. We did find some but no one would set up or really talk to us. I know that there are prepared people out there I know it. I Know that we will be lead to them if we listen to the Holy Ghost. I also know that they have their agency and they get to choose how they want to spend it.
Sunday was a busy day. In the morning we had mm meeting where we talk to the ward mission leader and report to him on what we are doing in the ward. Then church and then race to the park where we wait for ten min to be stood up and then to give the sacrament to an brother in a wheel chair that cannot come to church every week. I am so grateful for a healthy body. Then back to the church because a member brought a 15 year old friend that he he wants us to meet with then because they where in a fireside. We had to set up another time because at 3:30 my companion had to teach the Zone leaders to pass off Chinese stuff then back to the church to be stood up. Then home for a quick lunch at 5:30 because at 6:00 we have another lesson, but that gets canceled too. We had a meal then went out contacting and met some interesting people that say things like destroy church over and over again. We had an older man telling us that we are wrong but may the Lord bless us for trying. Just the old mission stuff that happens all the time.
Love you. Thank you for all that you do. Sorry time is going out
Love you. Thank you. Thank you.
Elder Harr
