ELDER HYRUM RICHARDSON #53 -- MAY 25, 2014

ELDER HYRUM RICHARDSON #53

MAY 25, 2014

We had a pretty good week here. It's starting to get a lot hotter here, but this week had a lot of rain. Rain is great because it cools things down a lot, but it's also not great because everything gets wet! Overall, it was a solid week.

Last P-Day, it was raining, so we couldn't go out and do anything. But we went to Wu Mama's house and played Settlers of Catan! It was a nice taste of home, but not near as fun as playing with the family. Then Wu Mama took us to another all-you-can-eat hotpot place. It was really good! Today, she is renting a car and wants to take us to somewhere fun, but she hasn't told us where yet.

On Tuesday, I went to XiZhi on exchanges with Elder Pearce who was with me in the MTC. We met a cool guy with a pretty rare last name. It's always fun to run into people with cool last names. Most everybody here is named Chen or Lin or Li, so finding a rare surname is pretty exciting. He was a really cool guy and I hope that the Elders there will get to visit him again!

On Wednesday we had an earthquake! It was the biggest earthquake I've ever felt before, and because we were on the fourth floor, we felt the whole building move back and forth for about 30 seconds. It was really cool! I think somebody said it was 4 or 5 on the Richter scale in Hualian so about 2 or 3 for us.

On Thursday, I tried the Kumquat Lemonade drink at Cocos because of Bethany's recommendation. It was really good! This is how you say it, so that next time you can order it in Chinese! 金橘柠檬 "jin1 ju2 ning2 meng2"

Friday we had a guy who came up to us and wanted to practice a speech in Taiwanese for us. He said he was preparing for a speech contest, and needed people to practice for. So even though we didnt' understand any of it, we got to listen to him do it. Pretty neat! Hopefully, I can keep learning more Taiwanese and come back more fluent!

We also visited a less active who owns and operates a Botox clinic.

Often when we meet people on the street, Elder Farrell will ask them to guess where we are from. Most people guess that we are from England or somewhere else in Europe, not America. It's really strange.

Called a potential this week whose English name is Bobby Griffith.

Wu Mama brings us breakfast on Sunday mornings, and she likes to bring us bread with cheese and jelly. It's not as bad as it sounds.

That's all for this week.

Add oil!

Elder Richardson

任長老

 

 A view from Xizhi looking towards Taibei. You can see the 101 in the back.

 Elder Pearce is a Tongan.

 Eating our invention, the grape tomato nacho sandwich.

 This bird at one of our Less Actives house. We are scared of him because we are told that he bites. Elder Farrell said he looks like the kind of bird that would be on a pirate's shoulder.

 Elder Farrell found four-leaf clovers!

 And then I found a 5-leaf one!

 The teacups that one of our investigators gave us.

 Elder Farrell in front of our chapel.

 Our settlers of Catan game!

 One of the flashcards for the new language study program. 

The example sentence is very true!

 

 Found this on a doorbell that we rang. Unfortunately they weren't home. 

The speech bubble says, "Please push!"

 These GIANT Koi Pond fish that we were looking at while waiting for an investigator. One of the people who works there saw us looking at them and brought us some bread to feed them.

 We found this weird looking car/truck.