ELDER RICHARDSON WEEKLY LETTER #19
SEPT 30, 2013
I haven't quite figured out how to format these letters well yet. But we had a great week this week!
One
of our newer investigators is progressing really well. His name is XD, and we usually meet with him on Tuesdays. But, since we
usually do exchanges on Tuesdays, Elder Pratt and I haven't had the
opportunity to meet with him together yet. To me, this investigator
shows me the power of a member referral. His friend is a member in a
different ward, but came with him to church yesterday. This friend
started to introduce him to the single adults in our ward and sat with
him through church. This investigator is awesome. He has been to a lot
of different churches, including some Buddhist ones, and he really wants
to find out if our church is true and is willing to do all the
commitments he needs to in order to give it a fair shot. He's really
great!
We're also excited for P. We haven't seen him
for two weeks because he has had things come up when we regularly meet
with him, so we were really excited that he came to our ward party on
Saturday. He also came to church on Sunday! He is a really nice guy, and
is always ready to serve other people. He also gave me a pen for my
birthday! Recently, he's just been really nervous about baptism because
he's worried about the commitment to come to church each week. It's
difficult for him to get there because he's lives a long ways away. I
think he's feeling better about it, and he'll hopefully have an
interview in the next week or so!
It's hard to eat on Sundays here, because we can't
go buy stuff during that day, and we don't have time on Saturday to buy
food. P-Day is also almost a whole week away. But we almost always have
food. Saturday night, as we were coming home from the ward party at the
chapel, my bike got a flat tire, so we starting walking for the bus
stop. We had just gotten to the bus stop when we saw a less active
member that we know driving home from work. This member sells pizzas
from the back of her truck in one of the parks in our area. She saw us
and stopped to give us two extra pizzas that she had. She said that God
told her she needed to make two extra pizzas and she at the time she
didn't know why, but she did now! And that's how we got food for Sunday!
Some other things:
-A random person
stopped us while we were riding bikes by a park to give us some of the
watermelon she had just bought. She said she was Christian and knew that
we were doing God's work, so she wanted to help us out!
-Taiwanese are all really good drivers. I don't know
why, but somehow they are all just amazing. I don't usually feel that
nervous about riding on the streets because the drivers seem to always
see us and always stop for us.
-We had some Pizza Hut at the ward party, but it had shrimp and octopus on it. So a little different from America.
-One
of our recent converts has been trying to find my facebook account, but
he couldn't find it, so when we visited his house, I helped him find
it. It was really bizarre to see facebook and really weird to see my
account, even for just a few seconds. Just really weird.
-I miss carpet.
-I had a
dream in Chinese this past week, and it was cool because in the dream I
understood most of what was going on and spoke Chinese as well!
-There's apparently a ginormous rubber ducky that is touring around
Taiwan right now. We keep catching glimpses of it on TV screens. It's
in the south of Taiwan right now, but maybe we'll see it if it comes up
north.
I think that's all I've got for this week!
Add oil!
Elder Richardson
田長老
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