Week #66

      Well we were able to get our AC fixed this week, so we are back to

sleeping in the room. Elder Durrant is feeling better, and so we are

going to an all you can eat restaurant today (that is how a lot of

people, especially elders, spend Pdays in Taiwan). But its nothing but

good times here in Taiwan.

  

We were able to have Zone Conference this week. One of my favorite

parts was how President Teh talked about vision. And like it says in

the scriptures, where there is no vision the people perish. One of the

things that he talked about to go along with that was the fact that

this is the Lord's work. We are automatically on the winning team.

Nobody/Nothing can stop this work from progressing. So as long as we

are doing our part, even if it doesn't seem like things are happening,

the work is still continuing to move forward. We also talked a lot

about following up, working with the ward, and servce (I have only

done about 5 service activities on my mission, but we are trying hard

to look for more).

 

 After we talked in Zone Conference about setting expectations and

following up, we were able to have a lesson that night. We were able

to apply a lot of what we talked about in Zone Conference, and I

honestly thought it was one of the best first lessons that I have ever

had. It was with a brother Zhang, he is a college student, and he had

talked with a friend about how prayer can bring you peace, so he

wanted to learn more about it. We were able to have a powerful lesson

with him and he said he was going to come to church. And we tried to

have really good follow ups with him, but then when we called him on

Saturday to confirm for church, he didn't seem to excited to talk to

us, and he didn't come on Sunday. But he is set to meet with us on

Wednesday so hopefully everything goes well.

  

On Friday we had a special meeting, with 3 members of the Quorum of

the 70 there. President Teh, Elder Funk (Area President), and Elder

Snow (Church Historian). They were in Taiwan getting some church

history information and so the stopped by real quick to talk to us.

They mostly just talked about church history, and how we are playing a

part of the church history here in Asia. One of my favorite parts was

when Sister Snow, quoting Sister Hinckley said "it's a great thing you

are doing, but it's the least you could do". 

The Lord has blessed me so much in my life, and the least I could do is sacrifice these 2

years to help others receive these same blessings. And although

missionary work is never easy, the Lord is continuing to bless me. I

can't believe I only have 9 months left! I just feel like there is so

much I still need to do. I love it! Love you all!

-- 

博長老 Elder Bosco

Taiwan Taichung Mission 16-18

Elder Jones and Elder Bosco

The District

face mask round 2

 rain day

 KFC egg tarts soooooooo good