This week was soooo legit!!!!! full of a lot of things that happened! so first off monday we went to go visit a member that had a stroke and he is doing so much better although he is not able to walk yet.. but it was great to see him for what might be the last time…. i might move this week! :'( but then we met with 洪鈺婷hong yu ting and it went amazing! by the end she told us that she wanted to get baptized this week!! so we were like… alright, no problem!! so that was an amazing lesson!

then on wednesday we had such a "….what just happened…" kind of day haha so to start we just went and had some fried rice because we have a place in our area that has about 50 different kind of rice haha! but anyway we were then biking toward our apartment to go pick up something from a member. I was in front and as i was biking i was just going along biking pretty fast just because time is precious right? haha but as i am going along i am coming past this taxi that is parked on the side of the road and as i get about 2 feet away from the front door the guy inside opens the door!!! now this is something that all taiwan missionaries imagine happening to them! so i had no time to react so my handlebar hits the door jerking the handlebars sideways and sending me flying through the air! Elder Welch said that i had done a front flip over my handlebars sending all my tracts over the road, it was seriously soo funny!! i don’t have any injuries from it luckly 🙂 i only remember getting up and not being to breath for a bit but after that i was totally fine! then later that day we were out finding and we had been meeting with this investigator from japan! so we had gotten him a japanese book of mormon but hadn’t been able to see him for a long time! then out finding we happened to find him! he saw us from across the road and we were so stoked to see him then as we started to bike over to him he just ran…. he ran so dang fast i have no idea why! haha it was pretty funny not going to lie… so now we just have a japanese book of mormon haha it was a great day 🙂

then we have been able to find some super sick investigators!!! im am so excited for them!! one is April she is so legit, then there is a friend of a girl in our ward and then last is this huang xian rong the way we met her was soo sweet but after our first meeting with her it turns out she doesn’t live in our area ao… we had to give her away but she came to church!! she is so legit! i love being a missionary its so dang fun!! 🙂

then to end off the week we had two baptisms!!! it was seriously the coolest!! we had that 洪鈺婷hong yu ting and 江孟臻jiang meng zhen recieve baptism! the best way to end this week and the training experience!! 🙂 seriosly have been so blessed with this area, companion, and friends that i have made here. i hate transfers for this reason, having to leave all the people you have gotten to meet and love! its ok though i can go out and help more people haha!

here are their pictures! short hair is jiang meng zhen long hair is hong yu ting!

Elder Miner

this is mango shaved ice thing and its sooo flipping good!! i love mango season!

then just some pictures of me and my comp.

and something that ive gotten used to but i thought you would like to see is the toilets here have two buttons… one for the small one and one if its big… haha its good ol’ taiwan 🙂

so this week as usual has been an amazing one! i swear i get more and more tired as the mission goes on but its a good kind of tired, the kind of tired where you know you have done a lot haha 🙂 the biggest things this week:

first we are going to be having a baptism this saturday!! its jiang meng zhen!! she is legit and im excited to see her make this step! i have loved working with her! she the most shy investigator that i have ever had to work with! she is legit i love her! 🙂

then we had hong yu ting decide that she can face that member she was kind of scared of and came to church!! super sweet! then that night i called her to see how she liked it and all that and then she started asking about her baptismal interview and stuff so she is back on track for baptism!! im so excited for her!!! 🙂 Elder Welch and i have been able to see some great success and progress with our investigators here in gui shan. we have been blessed with a great area!

funny story! so while we were on exchanges (so i wasn’t here for this) Elder Welch went with Elder Bell and while they were biking to an appointment elder Welch decided to yell out to a guy walking on the side of the street "Shuai Ge!!" which just means Handsome Man. and after that the guy yelled something back but they didn’t hear what he said. but anyway they came up to a red light and stopped. while they were talking to eachother elder Welch said "i was talking to Elder Bell and then i felt a hand come on my back so i turned to see who it was and when i looked over there was a big ugly russian looking at me with his face very close to mine!! and he said *Russian Accent* ‘you have got to be careful in this country’ it was so scary!" him telling this story was seriously soo funny!! that isn’t something that happens everyday in Taiwan haha 🙂 maybe it does for Greg Dorius he’s in russia right now 🙂 but anyway thats my story for this week!

so my dad sent me something that i think has a lot of truth in it that i would like to share. just about love and the effect it has on those we work with and associate with, i have seen this in my missionary work.

"The lesson is that when we show love to another, that love softens them and has the power to change them if they will let it. When someone feels loved, they are drawn to the one who loves them. This applies to all of us. It applies to our relationship with Christ. It applies to missionaries. As we show sincere, heart-felt love to those we teach, in fact everyone we meet, they feel that love, and it helps them choose happiness and good things, and they are drawn to us and what makes us good, just as we are drawn to the Savior."

go be awesome everybody, sharing the gospel is simply and act of love. as we live the gospel and help those around us live the gospel we are showing our love for them and our loving heavenly father. and look up the scripture in my heading its great, given me a lot of strength recently! love you all!

孟天鴻長老

Elder Miner

so this week as usual has been an amazing one! i swear i get more and more tired as the mission goes on but its a good kind of tired, the kind of tired where you know you have done a lot haha 🙂 the biggest things this week:

first we are going to be having a baptism this saturday!! its jiang meng zhen!! she is legit and im excited to see her make this step! i have loved working with her! she the most shy investigator that i have ever had to work with! she is legit i love her! 🙂

then we had hong yu ting decide that she can face that member she was kind of scared of and came to church!! super sweet! then that night i called her to see how she liked it and all that and then she started asking about her baptismal interview and stuff so she is back on track for baptism!! im so excited for her!!! 🙂 Elder Welch and i have been able to see some great success and progress with our investigators here in gui shan. we have been blessed with a great area!

funny story! so while we were on exchanges (so i wasn’t here for this) Elder Welch went with Elder Bell and while they were biking to an appointment elder Welch decided to yell out to a guy walking on the side of the street "Shuai Ge!!" which just means Handsome Man. and after that the guy yelled something back but they didn’t hear what he said. but anyway they came up to a red light and stopped. while they were talking to eachother elder Welch said "i was talking to Elder Bell and then i felt a hand come on my back so i turned to see who it was and when i looked over there was a big ugly russian looking at me with his face very close to mine!! and he said *Russian Accent* ‘you have got to be careful in this country’ it was so scary!" him telling this story was seriously soo funny!! that isn’t something that happens everyday in Taiwan haha 🙂 maybe it does for Greg Dorius he’s in russia right now 🙂 but anyway thats my story for this week!

so my dad sent me something that i think has a lot of truth in it that i would like to share. just about love and the effect it has on those we work with and associate with, i have seen this in my missionary work.

"The lesson is that when we show love to another, that love softens them and has the power to change them if they will let it. When someone feels loved, they are drawn to the one who loves them. This applies to all of us. It applies to our relationship with Christ. It applies to missionaries. As we show sincere, heart-felt love to those we teach, in fact everyone we meet, they feel that love, and it helps them choose happiness and good things, and they are drawn to us and what makes us good, just as we are drawn to the Savior."

go be awesome everybody, sharing the gospel is simply and act of love. as we live the gospel and help those around us live the gospel we are showing our love for them and our loving heavenly father. and look up the scripture in my heading its great, given me a lot of strength recently! love you all!

孟天鴻長老

Elder Miner

This week was another great one! full of ups and downs with our investigators! we had one investigator come out and was just all the sudden all for baptism!! she passed her interview yesterday!!! she will be baptized on the 28th! she is jiang meng zhen 🙂 she is such a cool girl! she’s 13. then there is hong yu ting who has the same baptismal date as jiang meng zhen but she called yesterday and actually said that she doesn’t know if she wants to get baptized because of one member in the ward… like… come on… she loves every little bit of the things we share with her and im so stoked for her we are going to kind of have a make it or break it lesson with her tomorrow and see if we can get her to focus on those things that the gospel is ment to do, not just the members of the church. she’s so cool though1 im excited for her 🙂

other than that this week has been good, training is a blast and my companion is legit! he is such a hard worker and im proud of the missionary he has become in these two transfers! i love the gospel, its seriously so amazing! being out here and helping all these people who face challanges every day see that the best way to overcome these is to rely on the savior of the world. it can’t get much better than that!! stick to the basics of CPR Church Prayer and Reading and you can overcome the challanges of mortal life. thats a promise from our Heavenly Father and Me haha love you all! until next week!

elder Miner

after a hard day of work… ahah

and my goob of a companion 🙂

this week was an amazing week. we had the chance to see you zhen jia baptized!!!!! he is doing so good, and it made me so happy to see the changes and the experiences he has had. he has had a lot of support from the ward and friends in this process as well which is super awesome to see 🙂 i am glad that we have been able to work with him and also that my companion was able to help him be baptized and we have been able to see two others that are looking like they are going to be baptized in this month as well but we will keep working with them 🙂 the mission is so awesome!!

i had an amazing time skyping my family today and kind of flips me out that i will be seeing them in person next time i see them… weird… but thats forever away… 🙂 i seriously love my famliy to death! the support they have given me and just them being them is super a strength for me. im so glad i have the famliy that i have. so here is a picture of me and them and also with you zhen jia and his baptism! super sick!!! 🙂

love you all! keep working no matter how tired you get, its called endure to the end for a reason!! 🙂

so this week was a sick one! we have a baptism this week on friday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i invite you all to come if you have time 😉 haha just kidding don’t fly out here haha! anyway he is super sick he is 游振嘉 you zhen jia and i love working with him and all of our investigators! super stoked for them all! we also have another investigator that is working for baptism on the 21st of this month and she is sooo on course right now! she is 洪鈺婷hong yu ting i love them both so much! super stoked for the progress they are making and just life as a missionary! 🙂 super excited for them! just keep praying for them that’d be great 🙂 also we get to skype this next week!!! super excited for that!! can’t wait to see the famliy all again!! 🙂

thats about it honestly just working hard and seeing miracles is about all 🙂 love you all! till next week! 🙂

Elder Miner