ELDER HYRUM RICHARDSON -- LETTER #83
DECEMBER 22, 2015
This week was super 忙！(busy) We had choir performances all weekend and exchanges during the week.
On Friday, we went to the Xinpu chapel. Instead of singing for the members there, we went out on the street and sang with the whole choir for passersby while the members handed out English Class and Restoration pamphlets. It was fun, but hard because the cars going by were really loud and we had a hard time singing over them!
On Saturday, we started singing in XinDian (my chapel right now), and then the whole choir got on the MRT for over an hour to Danshui, which is on the other end of Taibei! They just opened up a brand new chapel last month, and it's really big and really nice! We performed for their Christmas program along with the high school wind ensemble and an ocarina choir. The performance went smoothly, but it got over later than expected, so we all had to hurry in order to get home on time!
After our performance in Shilin on Sunday, a member who I knew in Neihu had a GIANT dessert spread for all of the missionaries. A lot of us hadn't eaten dinner, so we tore that stuff apart, and it was DELICIOUS.
We had an investigator (Sister Chen) who went to church for the first time this week! Because of her work schedule, she can only go to church in the mornings, so we went with her to a different ward. It was sad because she didn't know any of the members that she has met before, but when our meeting time changes to 9am next year, she'll be able to come to AnKang! We are really excited for her!
Yesterday, I read President Monson's Priesthood Session talk (the one about the Bismarck) in Chinese, and I learned a lot of new vocabulary like warship, destroyer, torpedo, rudder and rotating double-turret guns. But I probably won't be using those again anytime soon!
While Elder Eisele (ZL) and I were tracting in AnKang, we started talking to this one lady. Elder Eisele stopped in mid-sentence because he saw a GIANT cockroach on the door. It was probably at least 4 inches long and really fat. The lady we were talking to got really scared and we let her close the door before it got in, and then we smashed it after she closed the door. We figured out they had just fumigated somewhere, because we saw like 3 more that size on the road as we were walking away!
So it was a good week filled with singing, chocolate and cockroaches!
Merry Christmas!
Elder Richardson
任淳楷長老
The Christmas tree in our apartment
The brand new Danshui chapel!
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