ELDER HYRUM RICHARDSON #55 -- JUNE 8, 2014

ELDER HYRUM RICHARDSON LETTER #55

JUNE 8, 2014

Luckily, this week we had quite a bit of rain, so it wasn't crazy hot. There will be plenty of that this summer, so every opportunity to avoid it is appreciated!

We are well into Mango season here. Mangoes are the greatest, no matter how you eat them. Mango ice, mango smoothie or just eating the mango, it's all good. Wu Mama gives us a large bag of fruit every week, and the last couple of weeks has had mango in it. That's always the first bag gone!

Last Monday, we went up the 101 for P-Day. Even though it was pretty expensive, it was pretty fun. The coolest part was that I've been in Taibei for so long that I could recognize most of the places that we could see. I could see all three of my areas!

When we started heading back to our area, we ran into a lady who was really depressed, and told us that she was planning on committing suicide. We talked to her for a long time, and tried to help her out, and then at our mission presidents suggestion, we called the police and they got a hold of her family who came to pick her up. We think she had some schizophrenia and depression. We don't really know what happened to her, but we hope and pray that she is okay!

That day we also ran into a couple of members. One guy was from Canada and was here attending a conference. He said he left his hotel to buy some water, and he found water, but then he got lost. Then he ran into us and we were able to help him find his hotel again.

Taiwanese people don't like us setting stuff on the ground. When we go to eat somewhere, I usually just set my bag on the ground under my chair, but they always tell me to pick it up and set it on a chair instead of on the ground. We also went to one restaurant where they brought over a basket and put my bad in the basket which was on the ground. I was really confused...but I guess it's a thing here.

Elder Farrell and I have very similar voices when we speak Chinese. So a lot of our investigators and members can't tell us apart on the phone.

In Taiwan, you can type thank you by typing "3Q" because that's what thank you sounds like with a Chinese accent.

Yesterday at church, one of the speakers was one of the older members in our ward. His talk was about eternal families, but his whole talk seemed to be in really old written Chinese style, so it was almost impossible to understand. It was like his entire talk was in poetry and the investigator who was sitting next to me said that he didn't really understand either!

I'll send some pictures of this P-Day and last!

Add oil!

Elder Richardson

任長老

 

 VIEWS FROM THE TAIPEI 101

 

The fastest passenger elevator

 The picture on the far right (411) is of Songshan. (this picture)
On the left is the Sun Yatsen memorial, and the new stadium that they are building. In the middle is the Death Star mall that I told you about. That whole picture is basically all of our area!
Our boundary is that river that is in the back and the chapel is at the left end of the yellow bridge that you can see on the far right.