ELDER RICHARDSON WEEKLY LETTER #47
APRIL 14, 2014
This week was great. We got to meet with a lot of investigators, we ate delicious food, and of course the best was attending every session of General Conference!
Last Monday, a member took us to
an All-You-Can-Eat Pizza Hut. Apparently, there are only two in all of
Taibei, and they are both in our area :) It was delicious, but pizza in
Taiwan is different than pizza in America, even at Pizza Hut. They like
putting lots of seafood and weird sauces on their pizza here, but pizza
is still pizza.
One of the amazing members of our ward is Mama Wu.
She LOVES the missionaries and does a LOT for us. She is the one who
took us to pizza hut, and feeds us every Sunday night. She always gifts
us fruit to eat and whenever we are with her she never lets us pay for
anything. She also does all of the hair cutting and clothes mending for
the missionaries here. She also cooked food for the whole ward for both
days of conference. She's awesome.
One thing somebody said in church last week was that
Christ's name is mentioned 1 time every 1.7 verses in the Book of
Mormon, as opposed to 1 time every 2.1 times in the Bible. The Book of
Mormon really IS a testament of Christ!
On Wednesday night, we contacted somebody at about 4
o'clock that afternoon, and were surprised when she came to English
class that night at 7. That's a first for me. She also hung around
afterwards and was willing to meet with us this week!
We got a new dryer in our apartment because the old
one was a white shirt burner. As such, there is a large box that Elder
Farrell enjoys doing his studies in.
Our ward
mission leader here is also a foreigner. He is American, but he hates
speaking English. He usually pretends that he doesn't speak English,
only Chinese with a thick Beijing accent. He's a funny guy.
And of course, General Conference was amazing. I
took a lot of notes, and look forward to getting a conference edition
magazine so that I can study the messages more in-depth. I especially
liked Elder Oaks and Pres Utchdorf from Priesthood, Elder Bednar and
Pres Monson from Sun Morning, and Elder Corbridge and Christofferson
from Sun Afternoon. I felt like there was a common theme of standing up
for what is right even while the world is moving farther away from the
moral standard. I also really liked the Tabernacle choir arrangement of
Let Us All Press On from Sunday morning.
That's it for this week.
Add oil!
Elder Richardson
任長老
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