to start this off i just want to share something that i thought was pretty great that i read this week! so its in Jesus the Christ: pgs 340 and 344.

A little background first, This is when Christ gives the teaching to many of his deciples including his 12 and many others. He tells then that he is the bread of life and in this instance Talmage states that many of his followers didn’t understand or didn’t want to understand or were offended in some way by his statement. In this sense he was proving those that were his followers, either they would follow him or they would take what he said as too hard or not possible. In this instance not even the 12 Apostles fully understood what he ment. now i want to quote a part of what was said after many had left on page 344:

"Jesus said talking to the apostles ‘Will ye also go away?’ Peter, speaking for himself and his brethren, answered with pathos and conviction: ‘Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.’ The spirit of the holy Apostleship was manifest in this confession. Though they were unable to comprehend in fullness the doctrine, they knew Jesus to be the Christ, and were faithful to him while others turned away into the dark depths of apostasy."

Now I don’t know if you all noticed but in General Conference i counted a number of times that the Apostles and others referenced the members of the church as Disciples. So, i just have one invite. This is to all those that are members of the church no matter how active you are or where you are on your conversion process. I would pray that if you have any doubts or anything that you just plain don’t understand, Just hold on to that belief in Christ and the power in his teachings. There are still many things that i don’t fully understand but i can promise you all, as you press forward and just have the simple desire or hope that these things are true god will, through the spirit, make these things known to you. you will have a deeper understanding and eventually it is promised to know all the secrets of heaven. First we just need to do our part, President Uchtdorf once said "Doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith" I would hope that you all can just hold onto the truth that you already know. I love you all and know that these things are true! 🙂

Now for the week! we had another transfer this week and guess what… im going eternal with Elder Lindahl!! he is a stud and i couldn’t be happier! its going to be an awesome transfer! then last week we went to san xian tai (i think that is the pinyin for that…) but that was sick!!! i loved it and honestly i haven’t seen a more beautiful place in my oh so short life!! 🙂 ill attach pictures and probably send more in another email 🙂 then… we had a sick english party that was the craziest i have seen in Taiwan yet! haha 🙂 then… yeah that is about the week. nothing else super exciting happened aside from amazing personal study times! i love studying 🙂 chinese is legit and Taiwan is beautiful! im so glad that i have had this time and have so much more time here 🙂 and my birthday is awesome too thanks for the birthday wishes! love you all and i love the gospel! pictures to come soon!

Till next week!

Elder Miner