hey everyone! how is life going? life here is so dang good! this last week had a ton of things happen both up and down but… it ended super well! so i went on exchanges with the APs on monday i went with Elder Hansen and he’s in my generation and it was seriously so much fun!! we just had a good time out contacting people 🙂 and that night we met with 田心潔 tian xin jie this girl that Elder Humphries and i contacted when we were together and now we have seen her and start working toward baptism! she is sick! she has a date for the 20th of this month! and she came to church for the first time yesterday!!

then there is a 蔡芯羽 cai xin yu we called her up one day and she was willing to meet! she’s super quite and kind of awkward to talk to sometimes but she’s super sick! she has a date for the 27th! ill let you know what happens with her!

then we are meeting with some sisters! 高惠玉 gao hui yu and 高秋鶯 gao qiu ying they are super sick! they have been meeting with us for a while and have a date for the 20th as well and im super excited to work with them!! i pray that they can get the permission of their grandma because thats the only thing that they are really struggling with right now they are so down for baptism!!! 🙂

then while out knocking on some doors we knocked into this girl she’s 20ish and she is so dang prepared!! we talked with her for like 10 minutes and she then came to english class and met afterwards and her and her little sister set a date for the 27th as well!!! so dang sick! just one problem is that their mom seems to not want them to go to church… it sucks. but im sure we can talk to her mom about it and figure something out… hopefully!

then, most of you probably don’t remember her but i talked about a girl i contacted when i was back in tao yuan that was golden her name is 黃仙蓉 huang xian rong. so aparently she is getting baptized next week!!! she came down here to hua lien to visit me and talk to me about it. she is super nervous to tell her parents because she doesn’t know what reaction they might have… so she just wants to think of the right way to say it. she is so sick though i love her! im hoping that she will be able to talk it over with her parents! pray for her!

life is so good im sure that you all know that 🙂 don’t ever lose the perspective that god has given us through the knowledge of his plan of salvation！ its so true and satisfying. i love you all and i love this church. 加油！

Elder Miner

孟長老

this week was a pretty average week just full of doing the work and loving it! being with Elder Griffin has been great! i feel like we are now starting to click and that this next week is going to be sick! the entire week we had 3 bikes between the 4 of us and then one of them broke… so we have been working with what we have got. its been fun! our apartment has 4 elders and we all are in the same ward. so we are all trying to strengthen our ward but its kind of hard without a bike.. haha! nah its good we’ve had fun! we found a super awesome family down in feng lin 鳳林 its a great place with a lot of potential! so this family we met through english class down there and they are starting to show a ton of interest in our message! so we are stoked for them!

aside from that we have had a pretty average week 🙂 i love 花蓮 hua lien and the experiences i have had here! life is the best and god is kind! 🙂 love you all! oh and real quick invite for the week, go and study the part of our baptismal covenant where it talks about remembering Christ. There is seriously so much power from that! you can overcome any temptation, challange and random mood swing with that simple part of our covenant 🙂 its sick the gospel is the greatest thing.

lastly a little funny story. so we were down in feng lin a super small little town and while down there talking to everyone we walked into this little girl and her little brother with thier grandma. now i looked at them and knew that one of their parents wasn’t asian. so i walk up to this little girl and ask "hey! whats your name??" and this little girl responds with a voice as low as kronk from emperors new groove saying "my name is molly" it was very surprising and really funny! haha! i didn’t know how to respond but it was a pretty good contact haha 🙂 life is good!

Elder Miner

孟長老

so this last week was super nuts!! first i want to say i am sorry for not emailing to the group last week we were in a rush to go play… haha no good excuse i know.. :p but anyway this week was sick!

for last p day we went up tai lu ge gorge and the hike was so sick! seriously hua lien is the most beautiful place i have ever served even more beautiful than tai dong! we took a long hike up along a cliff by a gorgeous river to this tunnel that we were able to walk through in the pitch black and the whole time water is just pouring down on us which felt amazing because its a billion degrees outside and very humid so having ice water showers was the best 🙂

then we went on an exchange this week with some elders in our zone. elders Clark and Swank they are some very great missionaries! i went with elder Clark and we found this super golden girl! she has started to progress already and im stoked! 🙂 her last name is chen.

then we were able to go up to taipei for MLC which is just all the zone leaders meeting with the president and APs. we had a super cool training on spiritual gifts and i can tell you something, we all have plenty of gifts whether or not we see them! i would invite you all spend some time and just count all the gifts you have then, pick one that you want to work on and make it legit!

then in the course of this week my companion Elder Humphries pulled two people off the street and brought them to church to hear a little message and then they both came to church this week!! the first one was this guy that almost hit him (because my companion likes to ride fast through yellow/red lights… haha) but then this guy decided that he wanted to start meeting with us which was sick!!! then the last one was the most legit things i have ever done! while taking the train back from feng lin (that little branch we started down by the bishops house) we struck up a conversation with a monk lady and as we talked with her the entire train ride she eventually agreed to come to church with us right then!! it was soo legit! i attached one picture of Elder Humphries walking with her… haha!

in short this week was awesome and we saw many miracles! also, i am now an uncle!! i am so dang excited! Karren and Jason had their baby this last week! man… god is good 🙂 love you all!!

Elder Miner