From: Nathan Miner [mailto:nathan.miner@myldsmail.net]
Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2015 11:08 PM
To: NathanMissionary@thepickandshovel.com
Subject: [Elder Miner’s Missionary Mailing List] The week 🙂

So this week we have had some really good things happen! we met with our bishop and the auxilary leaders and set up a night we are pretty much going to train them how to be missionaries!! this ward is so proactive and im excited to see the growth. they have only been a ward for about a month and a half now! so excited to see the change and growth! 🙂

Then this week while finding/ knocking some doors there was this lady that quite honestly is the closest thing to a hippie i have seen in Taiwan! she wanted us to visit her "witch" friend who could help us clean our energy… we politely declined her generous offer.. 🙂 as we were leaving she said that i had "a rainbow light about me" …that is the spirit… all the spirit. then! we found this guy who set a baptismal date on the street!! super sick! he was about to get his glorious mane cut… it was kind of sad he had amazing hair!… but anyway… i can’t wait to see what happens with him!

This week was Elder Matua’s birthday! he is now 19 and he’s super sick! ill attach some pictures of our rice cooker birthday cake… haha 🙂 and our apartment is slowly breaking… the fans (which are necisary in such a hot place… we don’t stop sweating here! haha!), along with the lights and the washer… its super fun times 🙂 OH and the Typhoons that have come into Taiwan aren’t hitting us down here in Tai Dong. so theres no worries there!

Just want to say that i know christ is our savior and redeemer. He literally went through all the things we have gone through even the small ones… i can’t even comprehend that…. but i know he is there and will comfort and guide us in our lives. Rely on him and you cannot go wrong. Thank you for all the support and i hope you are all doing good! 🙂 love you all! until next week 🙂

Elder Miner