ELDER HYRUM RICHARDSON WEEKLY LETTER #32 -- DECEMBER 29, 2013

ELDER HYRUM RICHARDSON WEEKLY LETTER #32

DECEMBER 29, 2013

Merry Christmas! And Happy New Year!

This week we finished up our performances for the choir. We had about 12 performances all over the Taibei area. It was a lot of fun to sing everywhere, and especially to get to know some of the other missionaries in the choir. We had a really cool program, and a lot of missionaries saw miracles in their area as a result of the performance. In our area, we had a couple of LA members come that we hadn't seen in a while. 

Elder Monson and I tried to get a tie exchange going for the choir for each performance. It didn't ever really catch on, but we had fun trading ties between ourselves.

On Christmas, we had an all day zone conference. In the morning we had training as usual, and had a giant Christmas lunch with homemade food that all of the senior missionaries made. We also had a talent show, and a presentation of our Christmas presents. From the mission, we all got a three-column Doctrine and Covenants, as well as a Christmas card from Salt Lake.

After the zone conference, we came back to Neihu and a member took us to an all-you-can-eat hotpot place.

There is now a giant rubber ducky sitting in Jilong. I think I mentioned this a few weeks ago, and it finally arrived. It's a really big rubber duck, but I was expecting it to be bigger, so it was a little underwhelming. All of the missionaries and members in Jilong hate it, because it makes everything in Jilong more crowded, especially because it is almost right across from the church.

I think it would be funny to hook a goPro camera to my bike and record us riding on the streets here. It's pretty ridiculous. I'm pretty sure everybody would have a heart attack. I know I did when I first got here.

It is always a happy moment when a missionary goes to his investigator's house, and sees a Book of Mormon sitting in the place of honor, right next to the investigator's bed.

Yesterday, after our last choir performance, the ward provided some snacks/desert afterwards. They had cheese cubes, which was amazing. I don't think I've had cheese in 6 months! It was delicious.

Add oil!

Elder Richardson

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P.S. Transfers are this Friday. Because I've been in this area for 4 transfers, it's very likely that I will leave and be in a new area next week! So we'll see!