ELDER HYRUM RICHARDSON LETTER #93
MARCH 2, 2015
Well it was quite an eventful week! I guess the biggest news is that I'm training! They didn't tell me until after emails on Monday, so surprise!
Last week for P-Day, we had a really fun adventure. Us and the XinDian Elders rented tandem bikes at one of the parks and rode to a taco restaurant in the middle of Taipei. It was quite a sight to see four white guys on tandem bikes peddling super fast through the park and then the streets of downtown Taipei. We got a lot of weird looks, but it was pretty fun!
We were in meetings for trainers all day on Thursday, and then on Thursday night we do a thing call "babysitting," where we get randomly paired up to take a new missionary out finding on their first night here. I was with Elder Davidson and we went to a park in my old area Zhonghe. We met a really cool guy named Vincent, and he was super excited to talk to us. He actually contacted us because he heard me say hello in an Ama in Taiwanese, and he thought it was cool. So he started talking to us and said he believes that the Bible is true, but that he has never gone to a church before. He was really interested in the story of Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. Anyway, it was a really cool miracle and he will hopefully start meeting with the missionaries in Zhonghe soon!
On Friday, I got my new companion who turned out to be Elder Davidson! He's a pretty cool guy. He spent two months serving in Colorado while he was waiting for a visa, but now he's here in Taiwan! He's fun to work with and his Chinese is super good! We'll have a lot of fun for these last two transfers.
On Friday, we met with Buddha! I mentioned him a while ago. He is the boyfriend of a less active member, and they finally met with us again! This time he was a lot more interested in the lesson and we set a new baptismal date with him. His girlfriend also started coming back to church, which was really exciting for the ward here. We also had some other less active members come, which was great for the ward.
This week we've had a ton of people call us back after we've called them. My whole mission, I've almost never had people call me back, but for some reason it happened a lot this week! We have a lot of new people set up for the next couple of days, and hopefully they will all stick around!
Sorry this update is short, but that's about it for this week!
Add oil!
Elder Richardson
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