ELDER RICHARDSON WEEKLY LETTER
NOVEMBER 3, 2013
Well it was quite a week!
I spent Tuesday morning to
Saturday night in Taidong. Taidong is way down south on the east coast
of Taiwan. It took about 6 hours on the train each way to get there. I
was companions with Elder Teshima, a missionary who used to be
companions with my trainer Elder Pratt here in Neihu.
Taidong is WAY different than Taibei. Taidong is a
lot more rural, and there were a lot of aboriginal people there. The
houses are much more spread out, and there were fewer people. Almost
everybody we talked to already knew who the missionaries were, and most
had talked with them before which is very different from Neihu. Taidong
also has a lot more Christians. Most of the people with aboriginal
heritage are Baptist or Presbyterian. It was interesting to hear some
the same arguments I heard in America but just in Chinese.
We witnessed a lot of miracles this past week. We
spent 8 hours a day knocking on doors. We were assigned a rather small
area of the city, so we ended up knocking most of the doors in our area.
We definitely found some amazing people for those missionaries to
teach. Many of the people we found had been looking for the gospel and
we were blessed to introduce it to them. It's a little sad that we won't
get to see them being taught and hopefully getting baptized, but I'm
glad that we could help the TaiDong missionaries find them!
Halloween kind of came without me noticing. I didn't
realize it was Halloween until we saw some sort of trick-or-treating
thing in the downtown of TaiDong. It was funny because a lady asked us
if we were going to join them, I guess because we were dressed so
"weird!"
Yesterday, we got to attend the baptismal service
for one of the other elders' investigators. It was really cool, because
this was a guy that Elder Pratt and I contacted on the street on my
third day in Taiwan! Elder Pratt and I started teaching him, and then we
handed him off to Elder Deal and Elder Morgan when they moved here
about two months ago. It was awesome to attend his baptism!
Some other random things:
-I
got my hair cut after email last Monday, and I didn't really explain
what I wanted well enough, so she cut it pretty "Taiwanese" which just
means it's pretty short on the sides and longer on the top. Not to
worry, it's still missionary standard, it's just a little different!
-It was cool to see the ocean on the train ride down
to Taidong! I've also sent some pictures of the mountains as we were
riding down.
-We knocked on one house that had both Buddha and Mary statues sitting on shelves right next to each other.
-I tried Yogofresh for the first time, and it was
DELICIOUS. It's basically a vanilla yogurt at the consistency of milk
and sweeter. It's amazing.
-Last week for P-Day, we went to a National Geographic exhibit that was in Taibei. It was way cool!
-On Saturday, we taught an old Christian couple who
was blind, and they showed us their scriptures that were in Chinese
Braille. I didn't understand how it worked, but it was pretty legit.
Well, that's about it for this week.
Add Oil!
Elder Richardson
田長老
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