ELDER HYRUM RICHARDSON LETTER #85
JANUARY 5, 2015
Happy New Year 2015!
I spent the entire calender year of 2014 here in Taiwan, which is pretty mind-blowing to think about.
On Tuesday we met a lady who used to live in SuZhou! We could definitely tell she was a 大陸人(Mainlander), and we gave her a Book of Mormon, which she was really interested in! Hopefully, we will meet with her again this week!
I found another name for Jesus Christ that I really like. In Moses 7:53, He is "the Rock of Heaven." It's goes along great with the imagery in Helaman 5:12.
In Taibei on some of the sidewalks they have "blind man paths," which is just a row of bumps on the road for blind people to follow. So while we were walking home from English class, Elder Mayhew and I walked for a few minutes on the path with our eyes closed...everybody probably thought we were really weird.
On Thursday, I went on a really fun exchange with Elder Hawkins in MuZha. And on the exchange I achieved one of my mission goals. I have now been to every single chapel in the 4 Taibei stakes! Between my 5 areas and two years of the Christmas choir, I've been to all of them, and a number of them twice! It means I'm really a "Taibei" missionary!
While on exchanges, we visited a less-active member who shared with us a great analogy that I applied to missionary work. When we study the scriptures or pray or read, it's like we are engraving the words we read or hear on a vinyl record. Then when we share with other people, if we are doing it right and are led by the Spirit, God will take the needle and put it on the things on the record that we need to say.
There is a great couple in our ward, we call them Zhou Ba and Zhou Ma. Zhou Ba reminds me a lot of Grandpa Beach. They had us over to their house to eat twice this week, and their food is always delicious! Zhou Ba cooked some barbecue fish for us yesterday..SO GOOD.
Well, we had a good week, and are looking forward to another good one next week! Add oil!
Elder Richardson
任淳楷長老
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