Sunday, November 13, 2011

American Thanksgiving in Taiwan

Hey awesome family wow it's here again. I'm so grateful for the chance that I have to know you.

Wow you all moved flagstone... 300+- Pounds that's heavy, how did you move it? I hope you where careful. Way to work though. I bet it looks awesome. I love you. Sounds like you are getting cold there. I heard that New England had over a foot of snow before Halloween, Crazy. It is getting cooler here but not nearly that cold. The other day I was riding my bike out to hukou on exchanges and it was raining thinking how much funner it would be if it was snowing instead. My companion for that exchange was an Elder Terry, from Enterprise. He's a cool Elder. While out there wow we went and visited one of my former investigators. They are formers because they are always going to China, really just outside of Taiwan, but wow they are amazing. They leave for China this week and can't meet until Dec 7th. so I'll keep you posted on that story. This family has a 24 yr old daughter that had started to read the Book of Mormon (B.O.M) last time, about a year ago then got flooded with anti Mormon stuff then stoped. I called them up yesterday to see if they could come to church, and she had already read through 1 Nephi 15 and was loving it so hopefuly they keep reading it this time. We'll have to wait until Dec 8,9,10 something like that. Anyway kinda big tangent, when we went out there it was raining and they told us that they could give us a ride in their car because it was raining, but we told them that is was not snowing yet like we kinda wished it was and so we would be ok.

Ok so this week, it is crazy. I am starting to realize a bit of how long I have been out here. As I look at the mission there are like three groups that are from America that are above me that have served longer but other than that, my group is it. Crazy. My sisters, the ones that came on with me go home next transfer, crazy. I'm grateful for the chance that I have to be serving the Lord. Anyway this week, we found a Pumpkin Pie!!!!! Costco, I love you. We found it for 229 quai. It's a bit up there in prices, but it was not a choice. Once we found that we knew that we needed to share this happyness and taste from America with everyone so today we are having a Thanksgiving party. Even though it is next week we are going to do it today and it's going to be a blast. Thank you for a Costco card. We were there and got a bag of chicken, 10 pounds of potatoes, 10 pounds of sweet potatoes, two pies, some corn and Costco dinner rolls, stuff for stuffing (that's going to be fun trying to make)! It's going to be sweet. I'm really excited.

So L, sounds like you are excited getting ready. I is going to be fun. You know all you really need for cooking is a rost-pot and a cast iron pan, the rest you can do with a knife and chopsticks. It's all you need... ok well maybe it would be nice to have a few other things but that's about it.

Lets see I need to type a email to my mission president for a sec, then I'll write another one to you all.

So guess what Julian got baptised, I got to baptize him last Friday. I included some photos of that.

Well I need to go. I love you all. Know that I love you. Thank you for your example.

Love you all,
Elder J Harr