ELDER RICHARDSON
NOVEMBER 24, 2013
Greetings from Neihu! I'm still here in Neihu with Elder Lin, and I'll
be here until (at least) the first week of January. After that, I will
probably be leaving for a new area. Maybe.
We got a new missionary in our apartment. Elder Deal left for
Taoyuan, and we got Elder Zeng. He is also a native missionary, so we're
half and half now. It means that we mostly speak Chinese in the
apartment instead of English. Last night they switched to Taiwanese so
that Elder Morgan and I wouldn't understand, but then we just started
talking in really thick Southern accents so that they wouldn't
understand our English. It's going to be a fun transfer.
This week my companion and I have been focusing on
finding. We spent a lot of time this week talking to people on the
street. We talk to a lot of unprepared people, but we have to sift
through a lot of unprepared people to find the prepared ones. But that's
what we've got to do in order to do the work that the Lord needs in
Taiwan right now.
It's starting to surprise me how in some cases it's
much easier to speak Chinese than English. This past week we've run into
a couple of people who only speak English, and it was really hard to
not switch back into Chinese. It mostly happens when talking about
missionary stuff, like talking about the Book of Mormon on the street
and such. It just surprises me sometimes.
The Taiwanese people are terrible at shaking hands. I
rarely get a firm handshake here, especially on the street, but also at
church.
Don't have a lot of time this week, but I'll do better next week!
Elder Richardson
田長老
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