ELDER RICHARDSON WEEKLY LETTER
OCTOBER 27, 2013
It was kinda a rough and slow week. It's been difficult adjusting to a new companion, especially a native who is so different from my trainer! But we are slowly adjusting and getting along well.
Exciting news! This next week, from Tuesday until Saturday, I
will not be in Neihu like normal. Instead, Elder Morgan and I (another
Elder in my apartment) will be going down with a group to TaiDong! The
missionaries down there are trying to achieve their finding goal for
this month, and so President Day has decided to send some extra
missionaries to help out. So tomorrow morning (Tuesday) we will be
taking a 6 hour train ride to be in TaiDong for the week. We'll be
mostly street contacting and door knocking for the week, so it will be
very interesting. It'll be exciting to be somewhere new, especially
somewhere like TaiDong!
More exciting news! President Day called me and my
companion the other day, and invited us to be in a special missionary
Christmas choir that will travel and perform in the Taibei area during
Christmas time. So we have practice every P-Day at the mission home
chapel. We are really excited! It should be a lot of fun!
Our investigators are doing really well. We don't
have a lot, and half of the ones we have are "eternal" which means
they've been investigators for a while. Xiao DX is hopefully going to be
baptized next next week. And as much as we have been finding, we
haven't really been able to add to our teaching pool. We've just got to
keep finding the prepared people!
Some other 東西：
-Every convenience
store here carries a brand of candy bar called "Always." It's basically
like a kit kat chocolate bar filled with Nutella. It's as amazing as it
sounds. The only problem is that it is 16 kuai, which means that if you
don't have an extra penny, then you are carrying around 4 until you get
home!
-The cash system in Taiwan is super convenient.
Compared to the USD, it's super easy. Most things you buy are in
denominations of 10, and there's no sales tax, so you can figure out how
much you need to spend before you get up to the counter. If the US had a
better cash system, we wouldn't need credit cards!
-I went to the bank to try and exchange my birthday
money. The bank near our house is pretty nice, kinda high class. And
because we were dressed up like businessmen they treated us pretty
nicely. I told them that I wanted to exchange money and they asked "How
much?" They were blow away when I told them $28 USD. They just couldn't
understand why I would want to exchange so little, especially because
there was quite a hefty fee for the exchange. But there was nothing else
I could do. It was pretty funny. Also, the manager came over to talk to
us just because we were foreigners and we looked nicely dressed.
-Tug-o-war is a pretty big deal here. Every school has their own team and there are competitions between schools.
That's about it! I'll tell you all about my fun week in TaiDong next week!
Add Oil!
田長老
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