Happy Thanksgiving, wow it's here again. I love this time of year. This week has been great. Know that I am grateful for you all. You have been on my thoughts. So you changed times last week. Taiwan does not do that and so we are emailing at the sametime here but it will get there at a diffrent time. It is 6:00am right now. Sounds like you all had a blast yesterday. Wow 28 people that's a lot of people there 14 couples (to dinner for the Sr. Dinner/Date)? You all are awesome thank you for your example of doing good.
So last week I told you all that we where going to have a party for Thanksgiving. It was great. We had chicken, white mashed potatos, sweet potatos, pie, costco rolls, and stuffing. It was a fun party. Not quite the real thing, but close. Everyone that came loved it. It was good to get a taste of home.
This week was good, we worked hard, and we met a lot of people. There was a day Thursday I think, that it was raining hard. We where soaked and everyone was rejecting us. That day changed my view a bit. I just realized how small I am and how much our Father in Heaven loves us, how sometimes we without knowing anything about what he is trying to give us reject it. We just tell him "I don't need it," "Can it help me have money?" "Can it make me not go to work? If not I don't need it, and I don't want it." Sad. I love these people so much, I just want to share a life changing message with them, but sometimes they don't even give it a chance. I thank our Father in Heaven for giving us the ability and the right to choose. I hope that as we go through life we make the right choices.
Last week I went on two exchanges, as zone leaders we go on about two a week, and so time seems to be going by faster than normal because you are always going on exchanges all over, and helping out where you can. This last week there was a training that 38 people attended and so my companion Elder Bogle and myself had the duty for food. We found a place that sells curry, soup, rice and a thing called moutianmellon tea (dong1gua2cha2). It tastes somewhat like watered down homemade
rootbeer, it tastes good. So ya, we got to plan that, in the end the bill was 3600 quai. Which is about $120 U.S. that's not bad, it ended up feeding 40 people because we ate it as well. So that was good.
So today I get to go look at a bag. Here in Taiwan they use a train system and you can take your bike on the train as long as it is bagged. So in my zone we have a few places that take about an hour to get to by train and so we are going to try to find a cheap way to bag our bikes so we can just go down and split and do work. We'll see what we find. Then yesterday was Mexican Revolution day and so today we are also going to go and eat some Mexican food. There is one place in xinzhu that sells it. So we'll see how that goes.
Thank you Dad for helping me out by talking to coach about dates. Dad, Mom, thank you for all that you do. Thank you for your example. You are amazing. Thank you for teaching me to work hard and for teaching me how to listen, to think, and for giving me so much. Thank you for teaching me that if we do our part and trust the Lord we can do anything. I was talking about miricles and the power of faith with Elder Bogle and I can count how many times I have seen "Miricles" because we asked the Lord and did our part. I'm thinking about the youth fireside out by the Santa Clara river wow that would have been three four years ago now, the 4th of july. So many! Thank you for your example. I have been giving away rolls of paper so people can make a grateful list. Thank you. I love you.
Thank you for your emails.
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