Monday, December 9, 2013

ELDER RICHARDSON: DEC 8, 2013

ELDER RICHARDSON
DECEMBER 8, 2013

It was a pretty good week this week.
If you zoom in you can see Taibai 101 between the pole and the tree on the right.

On Monday we went to Costco again! I probably bought too much. The best investment though was a giant jar of Nutella. I've been eating Nutella-covered everything for the past few days. Definitely super healthy.


While we were in English class, a gust of wind blew and toppled all the bikes over Dominoe style!
On Wednesday as we were leaving a grocery store at dinner time, a middle-aged man stopped us and said he wanted to talk to us. He gave us his business card and told us he was a spiritual prophet. He showed us some pictures of ghosts and other things, and wanted to meet with us. On Friday, Elder Morgan and I were on exchanges and so we met with him at the chapel. Before we started talking to him, he showed us some videos of supernatural phenomena. We figured out that this guy goes around to church leaders all over Taiwan and tells them about ghosts and why ghosts are important. It was really interesting to tell him that we believed in the same things, but in a slightly different way. We shared a lot about the plan of salvation and invited him to be baptized, to which he agreed. We'll try to meet with him a few more times, but we'll see how it goes.

On Wednesday we also went to visit a potential investigator who owns a gelato cart. I really liked that visit. It's hard to find good ice cream places here, so we might be going back to visit him more.

If anyone wants to read a cool story about Elijah, go read 2 Kings 1:9-12.

Elder Morgan and I have been playing Chinese chess a lot recently. We play a game or two at 9:30 before we go to sleep. It's been really fun; it's a neat game. Definitely different than "western chess."

Something I've been thinking about this week is that there is really only one principle of the gospel. If we could all completely understand that God loves us, and could understand how he loves us, than all of the rest of the laws and ordinances would be unnecessary. Everything else in the gospel is just to help us learn about God's love, and we obey commandments and learn about the doctrine in order to understand that love better. 1 Nephi 11:17

Add oil!
Elder Richardson
田長老

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