so real quick, because we don’t really have a place to email down in feng lin. President gave us permission to email on tuesdays right before district meeting so our emails will be coming on tuesdays now 🙂

this week has been another good week. we have been able to see some really good miracles! The Wang family that i talked about last week has been making some really good progress. we have run into a problem that i haven’t run into with many investigators. as we have been sharing with them the wife (xiu mei) has been trying to set up all of her relatives and friends to meet with us too! and seeing as we still need to share with her before they can get baptized its going to be hard to meet with them because we are meeting with all of their friends! not a problem that we run into often and really its a super good problem to have 🙂 right now their baptismal goal is for the 12th of November! super excited for them! we will being working hard to meet with them as much as possible! their family is so dang cute!

Me and Elder Conover have seen so many miracles! i have loved serving with him and being able to see the progress of our investigators! this last week we met many sweet people. our most progressing are the wang family (mom, dad, and 3 kids 🙂 ) then the zhuang family (mom, dad, and 2 kids) then we have a liao zhi yi, and have met some others that we are excited about!

life is good, and the lord wants us all to succeed so don’t get down on yourself 🙂 now here are some pictures 🙂

This is the wang family, they are the greatest! they took us to this little lake with st mary in the middle. pretty cool!

love you all!! till next week!

Elder Miner

孟長老

so real quick, because we don’t really have a place to email down in feng lin. President gave us permission to email on tuesdays right before district meeting so our emails will be coming on tuesdays now 🙂

this week has been another good week. we have been able to see some really good miracles! The Wang family that i talked about last week has been making some really good progress. we have run into a problem that i haven’t run into with many investigators. as we have been sharing with them the wife (xiu mei) has been trying to set up all of her relatives and friends to meet with us too! and seeing as we still need to share with her before they can get baptized its going to be hard to meet with them because we are meeting with all of their friends! not a problem that we run into often and really its a super good problem to have 🙂 right now their baptismal goal is for the 12th of November! super excited for them! we will being working hard to meet with them as much as possible! their family is so dang cute!

Me and Elder Conover have seen so many miracles! i have loved serving with him and being able to see the progress of our investigators! this last week we met many sweet people. our most progressing are the wang family (mom, dad, and 3 kids 🙂 ) then the zhuang family (mom, dad, and 2 kids) then we have a liao zhi yi, and have met some others that we are excited about!

life is good, and the lord wants us all to succeed so don’t get down on yourself 🙂 now here are some pictures 🙂

This is the wang family, they are the greatest! they took us to this little lake with st mary in the middle. pretty cool!

love you all!! till next week!

Elder Miner

孟長老

this week has been a super good week! we have seen some amazing miracles in starting this area. so in this last week we have been able to find one new solid family to teach and its been awesome! The 王wang family. they have been super solid so far and even came to church with their 3 kids! im so stoked to get to work with them and see the change in their life! this transfer we have a goal of getting 4 baptisms and if things keep going as they are we will be able to help the two families, wang and zhuang families, we have been working with make that commitment! i have loved working with Elder Conover he is a great missionary and he has a great desire for the work. we get along great and i am super excited for the work that is going to get done with us here for the next transfer 🙂 there are things that we are still getting used to and working to adjust but overall be have made some great progress in adjusting to the area. there are tons of prepared people here! just getting this area started 🙂

its been fun because when we moved down here we didn’t have anything so we have had to buy things for the apartment with our own money. because we have to do that we have gone all week with little money at all and have had to do some saving for the week haha its been fun to find different ways to cook rice… haha 🙂 im only slightly kidding about that 🙂 but really this has been a good week of learning! i love life!

love you all and have a great week!! 🙂

Elder Miner

孟長老

me and my new comp in our new apartment!

this statue says feng lin is literally the slowest town in all of taiwan….. flip yes 🙂

on the way to emails today i wrecked myself! but thats ok it looks cool 🙂

hey all!

so this week has been a nuts one 🙂 full of new challenges and a lot of miracles! so here’s what happened! to start transfers were on thursday! My new companion is Elder Conover! super cool guy and actually took chinese class with him in highschool in which we learned pretty much nothing… haha but look at us now! he’s super solid guy from south Jordan. My new area is actually in the same area that i just served in!! haha we are opening a new area!! i don’t know if you remember but i talked about 鳳林feng lin this small area that we wanted to start opening! and guess what! i got a call from president last monday and the first thing he says to me is "Hey Elder Miner are you ready to be a country bumpkin?" and he’s not wrong my new area is sooooo rural! our city that we live in has about 3 main roads in it then its just a bunch of fields on the outside its pretty great 🙂 im in love with this new area. we have been in it a total of 4 days now and have been able to set up 3 families! whole flipping families i can’t even tell you how excited i am for them!! so we will be seeing a lot of miracles this transfer!

other than that not much… haha its been super good though! i love the mission and learned a lot from general conference! the aim with this new area is to get a small district, right now the reason they sent us down there to open is so that we cango from nothing to a small meeting house by the end of this year!! so pray for feng lin please!! as we watched conference me and elder conover just had an overwhelming feeling of confidence in this new area and the possibilities are endless with this area! love you all!!

Elder Miner

孟長老

Hello everyone!

this week was a super great week even though we had 2 days of not really being able to go outside we had some great success! On tuesday we had a typhoon come right over hualian which was super cool to be honest! it was a pretty big one but there was no serious damage done to us here. this is a picture though, taken by i don’t know who but that is a wave going nuts! haha super cool looking but everyone was safe 🙂

aside from that we had a solid day up in taipei in MLC which was super good! i know you have all already seen it but they showed a talk from conference (that we can’t see until this next weekend) the talk of uchtdorf during the womens session Fourth Floor Last Door and man it was sooo good!! go read or watch it again its got some amazing teachings in there that we all could do better on.

aside from that there isn’t much that has changed this last week. we do have transfers this next week though and from the looks of it i am moving. i have been here 3 transfers and they have already given us the tickets for those moving but have not told us who is moving haha! but i have a high chance of moving. but we will see! ill let you know next week! love you all!

Elder Miner

孟長老

So this week was super good! we have been working really hard to get the members on board with all we are doing which is honestly pretty hard sometimes just because you have to get everyone working for that common goal but its picking up now! we have been able to work with stake and ward leaders in helping fenglin district start to happen which is super exciting!! I actually called president about that and told him that i wanted to go down there. so there is a chance that i could move down there next transfer which would be sick! but then again i have just as big of a chance moving somewhere else too im good either way 🙂

but anyway thats mostly things im excited about haha! on another note we were able to get a family that we have been working with on date!! this family is super sick! we have been working hard to get them there, they are the zhu family and honestly i love them so much! the dad is super down for it but the wife is a little less willing. its ok though, in the closing prayer of our last lesson he prayed that him and his family would all be able to learn more and be baptized! it was such an amazing lesson!! life as a missionary is super tiring, but its also the most rewarding and happy time 🙂 life is great!

just remember the important things, if you lose focus of those you tend to lose hope and happiness. that is something i have seen a lot this week, its really kind of sad and too easily happens! thats why we read, pray, and go to church. you all know that so just keep it up 🙂

love you all!

Elder Miner

孟長老

hey everyone!

so this week we have been doing some good work! so we have been working hard to get the members and missionaries in our zone to work better together so that we really have more people sharing the gospel and i love our wards! they are really getting behind us to bring this together! we have been pushing for the fenglin area to start and they will be having some people moving down there next transfer and i know that i will probably end up moving this next transfer and if i moved down there i would be overjoyed!!! but we will see what ends up happening!

so points for this week:

so we taught li li ya and li yi wen the law of chastity this last week which we were worried about because they were living together but honestly they are so prepared!! i was honestly kind of worried for that lesson and almost kind of hesitant in talking about that part but as soon as we brought it up and talked it over they understood and were totally willing to live it! they are the most solid couple ever! pray for them!

then super funny story! the sisters found this new investigator that actually sought them out and the reason that she started investigating the church was pretty funny actually! so to start this story this lady said that she was walking down the street to get lunch and then she saw what she called "a blonde haired angel" bike past her and smile at her. and sense everyone knows that white people on bikes traveling in pairs of two are the missionaries she said she went home to search the church and find out how to get in contact with the church! she sent in her information online and that night had a lady from salt lake call her and tell her to call the sisters and now the sisters are teaching her and she is progressing way well! i met her once and she’s solid! ended up finding out that i was the one that smiled at her and that got her to come to church! it was super cool! so never doubt the power of a smile! even if you aren’t feeling it just keep that smile on your face! because sure the work can be hard but it is worth it and can be done! love you all!

life is good 🙂

also found out that the three nephites are pretty funny, starting their own bread and breakfast with scripture names.

sometimes you just have to sneeze, i love the clothing here 🙂

Elder Miner

孟長老
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so i don’t have much time because i always feel like i need to write everyone and procrastinate writing this one… haha sorry everyone BUT this week was so awesome!!

so i will just give a brief overview 🙂

first we went and played volleyball as a zone last pday and it was sick! then that night we were able to meet with one of our investigators that we have been working with and is so close to baptism!! her name is tian xin jie and we set a goal of the 24th for her to get baptized this month! she’s doing pretty good for that goal!

then we have been working with a part member famliy , the ma family, to get the dad and brother to come to church, the faith of the mom and youngest son is so crazy they want them to recieve these blessing so badly and i am totally down to help them out!! so pray for them!

then i went on an exchange with the APs and he was younger than me… thats when you know you have been out a while!

then we also set a date with li li ya and her boyfriend! they are working for the 29th of october! they are an amazing group of people! we ate at their restaurant and i went to pay and she was like "no im not letting you pay me!" and i was like "no, don’t be a butt and take my money!" then after a bit i just left it on her table so she had no choice but then as wer go to leave my companion comes up to me with his money still in his hand and my money as well he wasn’t able to pull it off…. it was super funny! haha i love them so much!

our ward had a karioke activity and we sang so hard and got 3rd place, yeah 🙂

I have an RC that came down to visit but the very first day that she got here she got in an accident! so she wasn’t able to do anything she originally had planned which sucks but we are still going out to go on a hike today!

other than that our stake is working to get 15 more melchizedek priesthood holders in 6 months! so…. we will make that work!! pray for that please!!

lastly for dinner last night we had a watermelon but no way to cut it… so i just grabbed my lightsaber and went ham

alright so this last week we have been making a big push on asking people if they have people that would be interested in hearing the gospel rather than just going out on the streets all the time (as fun as that is :p but really finding on the streets can be super fun!) but we ended up having a super sick week!

so this week honestly me and my companion had some communication issues which effected our work but we figured that out quick, love eachother and the work, and ended the week on a high!! we were able to see some sick miracles! we were able to get a famliy on baptismal date working for that covenant and also we saw 5 people come to church! a family of three 李麗雅 li li ya 李宜文 li yi wen and their son! (not the same as the ones on date), this kid thats 16 林建銘 lin jian ming and has been coming for a long while but can’t be baptized because of parents disagreeing, then we saw another 17 year old girl 田心潔 tian xin jie come to church for the second time and she’s doing super good!

that was a big miracle for sure! this week has just been so great! i love serving in a position where i can work with a bunch of missionaries and just be busy doing things that help not just investigators but missionaries as well! sharing about the gospel is such a strength to me personally i love it! love you all!!