Week #9/10 In Taiwan!

Ni hao family,
Well I made it here safely to Taiwan!!! The Typhoon made the plane ride a little bit bumpy but everything was good. When we got to the airport in Taiwan we had to wait for some elders coming from the Phillipines MTC, so we did some tracting in the airport. It was crazy cause none of us can speak Chinese, but the people here are super super nice, so it was really fun.
Since we got their so late we were only able to get about 3 hours of sleep. The next day we had a lot of orientation, and at night they brought a bunch of missionaries that were around the area and had them go contacting with us.
Then we went to dinner at a restaurant, and everybody at my table was basically asleep the whole time. On Friday we met our Trainers. My trainers name is Elder Heath. He went to a year of college so he is Wesley's age. He went to Lone Peak. He is super awesome and has been a really great companion for me.
We are serving in Gao Xiong. Most of it is a pretty wealthy area. It is a really great area, and the people here are super nice. The food is also really good. There are a couple of things that aren't my favorite, but for the most part I love the food here. We are living with 2 other elders, Elder Hansen, and Elder Graves.
 We haven't really had a lesson yet, because a lot of them are falling through. So we do a lot of contacting, and we really haven't found any new investigators, but this next week should be a lot better. We had lunch with the bishop and his wife. They made us a ton of food, and it was all super good. A lot of the time the bishop's wife was just laughing because me and Elder Hansen couldn't understand anything that was being said.
We went to a 7-11 to find someone to talk to (there are literally 7-11's EVERYWHERE). While we were there, some guy came up and talked to us about how he was baptized 20 years ago, but then he started smoking, but now he wants to stop smoking and try to make things better with his wife. We meet with him on Tuesday, so hopefully that goes well.
 There are two brothers in the ward name brother Ye (they are not related, and there aren't that many different last names here) one of them we just call Kirby. But they are both super awesome, and they are willing to do whatever to help the missionaries. Sunday was stake conference, so I still haven't met everybody in our ward.
Stake conference was really good (even though I couldn't really understand anything that was going on. We had the Taipei temple president, and a member of the 70 speak to us. At night we went to and FHE at Kirby's house. It was us, Kirby, a member of the stake Presidency and his family, two recent converts, and an investigator. Kirby is a really good baker so he made a bunch of good treats. Then we shared a little bit about the Book of Mormon. The investigators name is Zhang. His baptismal date is in a month, but he also has to go to the army (requirement in Taiwan) a week after that. So hopefully he will still want to be baptized, but I am confident that everything will turn out ok.
 I have been living out of my carry on this past week, and so today we were going to do laundry because I didn't have any garments or socks left. But then the water stopped working in our whole apartment. I think they were fixing something upstairs or something. So we aren't sure when it will work again, but everything is good and hopefully it will get fixed very very soon. There are 7-11 and Family Marts on every corner. mopeds everywhere, which means the traffic is super crazy, but I am getting used to riding a bike around. Well I am starting to love it here more and more everyday. The mission is super hard and challenging, but I know that the Lord prepares a way for us to accomplish the things that he has commanded us to do. I know that the more we rely on the Lord, the more we will be able to see his hand in our lives every day!
 Elder Bosco

Photo cred to Mark Melo (a member who knew Dallin on his mission because he was living in the Netherlands. He saw that he had a brother called to Taiwan - where he is now living- so he tracked him down at Stake Conference)
Collins first Sunday in Taiwan

Arriving at the Mission home in Taichung

Pres. and Sister Teh

at the airport