6 months!

Well friends, 

I have officially been on my mission for 6 months! To celebrate Elder Bunn and I went to the only 7-Eleven either of us have ever seen in Taiwan that sells Slurpees for language study! Maybe Slurpees will become a thing in many 7-Elevens by the time it gets around to the summer. That would be sweet!

Did I tell you about that guy last week who showed up to our sacrement meeting randomly and then to the fireside by the temple later Sunday night? Well we met with him twice this week. He is actually a member already but he has had some periods of falling away and spent some time going to another church. Basically he just has a ton of questions based around the Bible that we assume the other church (and possibly the Jehovahs Witnesses) drilled into him. It's kind of funny meeting with him because it's kind of like pretend Bible bashing with a member of the church just trying to play the devils advocate. He doesn't really seem to believe anything he brings up. I think he just wants us to prove them wrong so he can settle some doubts. Hopefully we can give him some tools to figure these kinds of questions out on his own, because they aren't just going to stop after our meetings!

After English Class this week we met with a long time former who was really cool. He has met with missionaries multiple times throught his life but it seems like he has really been prepared to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ again at this time. I'm hopeful that he will progress quickly!

Last notes, we had a Christmas Caroling event with our district at a Carrefour (Kind of like a Taiwanese Target?) this week. Luckily some of the 永和 (Yong He) members came because otherwise we would have been really low on numbers. Unfortunantly, they had us carol Thursday night so no one was really in the store to listen. It was still good though. 

Also the transfer ends this week and with that, my time as a Trainee will end as well. Theoretically, if everything follows typical patterns, I will stay in 中和 (Zhong He) and Elder Bunn will leave. We shall see.

Love you all,

Elder Neilson

Notes on pictures,

as part of P-day today we went to the 中正紀念堂 (Chang Kai Shek Memorial) so there are some pictures from that. Then we also were in a really nice area of Taipei and found a combo KrispyKreme and Jamba Juice. 

Picture of me getting some 冬瓜茶 at a restaurant one of our friends works at.