Breaking

With this last Thrusday I have officially put my time as a Trainee behind me and moved on to the period of the mission they call "greenie breaking" and with that comes a new companion named Elder Merrill (吳). He is from Southern California (Woodland Hills). He has been out for around 8 months and so he isnt super old by mission standards.

Its been a fun last couple of days. We have seen a ton of miracles. We tried visiting this one less active family the other day who didn't have time to say high despite asking us to come back that morning earlier. In anycase that didn't work out but because we were in the area we got to talk to a lady carrying her young son to a breakfast shop who we tried to set an appointment with for the next couple days. She randomly asked, "what about this afternoon?" and we ended up meeting with her the same day just a few hours later. She seems super prepared and it was a really cool miaracle. 

Other miracles happened at church, including another random awesome family walking into the church third hour. They live in the other elders are but its still all cool. 

We also got to take part in ward council for the first time since I arrived in Taiwan. It was super cool even though I didn't understand much when they were talking about non missionary stuff. I just think that ward councils are a great testimony of the divine organization of church leadership. Councils are just electrifying and it is so awesome to see all these people taking time out of thier own diverse lives to sit and talk about how to help those in the ward and in the area at large. Super cool.

Today for P-day we cleaned a lot and got rid of a lot of junk left by older missionaries and stuff. The Apartment is a lot nicer to be in now. Then we went to Taipei 101. Which was super cool! There is this huge really nice mall with a ton of really expensive brands so we just kind of walked around. Still a fun time. 

Hope everyone has a great week before Christmas!

Elder Neilson

my ramen for lunch on sunday. I threw in an extra Noodle patty from these weird purple noodles a member gave us. Turned into Ying Yang noodles

 Elder Merrill taking home a pumpkin pie one of the members in the English ward gave us. He tied it to his bike with a reflective vest and somehow it made it home

Elder Morgan and I rearranging the closets after Elder Bunn and Cheng left