ELDER HYRUM RICHARDSON #92 -- FEB 23, 2015

ELDER HYRUM RICHARDSON #92

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Well, this week was Chinese New Year, ("GuoNian") which just made everything crazy for a week, but now things should be back to normal.

Starting on Tuesday, everyone in Taibei started leaving. For Chinese New Year, everyone goes back home to their parents house, and for a lot of people in Taibei, that means the south part of Taiwan, so there were probably only a quarter of the population here for the whole week! 

Most places to eat are closed during the week, so the members of the church here started the tradition of feeding the missionaries during the week of the New Year. So we got fed a LOT. From Wednesday all the way until tonight, we have members feeding us for every lunch and dinner. And they feed us a LOT! I didn't eat breakfast for a week because I ate so much for the other meals! 

The food we ate was all delicious, but we had some weird stuff too, like fried fish egg, cow stomach, jellyfish, fried squid, and pig's foot. But also one of our members went for "American" style and cooked us steak! 

We started taking around a Ukelele to share at member visits when they fed us. Elder Casper learned "I am a Child of God" and I learned "When I am baptized." They all loved it! One of the members joked that they should teach Ukelele in the MTC and have all missionaries play at lessons!

Unfortunately, all of our investigators and a lot of our RCLA members left AnKang for the week, so as for missionary work we mostly went street contacting everyday. Thankfully, everybody will be coming back for this next week!

But this week was cool because we got to meet a lot of the family members of the people that we ate with, and got to share a message about families or temples with them. Our favorite thing this week was to give one a Family Proclamation to all of the people who were at the dinner.

One other tidbit: I found out that to say "Crocs" in Chinese you say "布什鞋” (bu4shi2 xie2) which means "Bush shoes" (as in George Bush).

It was a crazy week. But everything will be back to normal this week!

I hit a year and nine months last week!

祝大家大吉大利，吉星高照，新年快樂！

Elder Richardson
任淳楷長老