ELDER HYRUM RICHARDSON WEEKLY LETTER -- #37

ELDER HYRUM RICHARDSON WEEKLY LETTER -- #37

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

This week was Chinese New Year! It's probably most comparable to Christmas in the United States. Everybody is off from school and most people are off on work. Everybody goes home and most of the city is shut down. As such, it's a little hard to do missionary work. Most of our investigators left Taibei, and there's almost nobody out on the street.

So this week we spent a lot of time with our ward members. It's a tradition for the ward to feed the missionaries during New Year, so we've eaten at members' houses for almost every meal! We are also expected to eat a huge amount for every meal, so I'm haven't really been hungry at all for the past three days.

The members here also cook some very interesting and perhaps more traditional food during New Year. So recently, I've eaten squid, octopus, pig ear, and my favorite was apple covered in lobster sauce.

There have been a lot of fireworks the past week. It's been hard to sleep with fireworks going off right outside your window!

Today, one of our investigators has a baptismal interview! This is actually an investigator I haven't talked about before, mostly because he's kind of hard to describe. We'll call him SALES, because that's what he told us to call him the first time we met him, which was the first day Elder Wang and I got here to Zhonghe. That first visit he wouldn't tell us his last name, because he said it was "not important." He's a pretty eccentric guy, a little bit strange and also really funny. But he loves the gospel, and wants to get baptized, so we are excited for his interview today! If I tried to completely describe SALES, it would probably take two more pages, so I just leave it there.

Well, it was a short week, so here's a short email. 

Add oil!

Elder Richardson

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