Tales in Taiwan : Week #11

Ni Hau,
After I sent this email out last week we went grocery shopping at Costco with a member. The Costco here in Taiwan is the exact same as the Costco in America. Same products, same cafeteria place, same everything. It was pretty crazy. I never thought that I would be eating a Costco muffin for breakfast here, but it happened.
We have got a couple of progressing investigators here. The first one is Zhang (In Taiwan there are about 5 last names, and about 2 million first names) He has a baptismal date in a month, and then he leaves for military service the week after that (but the navy is in our area, so I believe that we can still meet with him sometimes) But he is awesome. He has read 1,2,and 3 Nephi (cause he wants to read them all together.) But he came to church for the first time and he was bearing his testimony to us about how he wants to come to church every week.
The second is Megan. She is progressing a little slower, but she is always willing to act on our invitations. I invited her to be baptized in November, and she accepted. It probably wasn't the greatest baptism invitation, but I definitely felt the Spirit.
We were at a 7-11 calling some people and this lady walked up to us and talked about how she had been in a couple of accidents and how she was looking for a church because she was a living testimony of Jesus Christ. She had been to a lot of churches but she didn't like the things that they were teaching. She still hasn't had time to meet but hopefully she can meet with us because I know that Gospel is able to help everyone with anything that they might need.
I taught my first English class on Wednesday. We teach the little kids class. Although I am fluent in English, it is much harder to teach than I thought it was going to be, and the little kids are crazy so it was fun, but also pretty hard. There was a member in our ward that we brought a card to (Taiwanese people love cards). We brought to her little soy bean curd pudding stand, and of course I had to have some (you will get a picture of it) But my companion had to eat most of it, cause it was pretty gross.
We had a ward party which was fun cause the people in our ward are awesome, and there was really good food. At church on Sunday, people were just giving us food throughout church. So that tells you about how awesome our ward is. |There is a family from America that does not speak Chinese, but he works here, and she bore her testimony so I actually understood that. I am really loving it here. I still can't speak the language, but the work is progressing and I am happy to be a part of that.
Elder Bosco