Had a sweet p-day going up to a lake, doing some nice bike rides and then going up to the Aboriginal knife stores to get some sick knives. Taiwans native peoples make these way cool knives for hunting wild boar and all your other knife needs. It's kind of a traditional thing to get one during your time in hualian to prove you were here.
Wednesday night we listened to the BYU talk President Nelson gave the other day at night in our apartment. I love to hear the Prophet speak out for the truth of God in this ever more confused world. It's fascinating to see how the voice of the Lord through his Prophets and Apostles is always steady, strong and full of love, as the voices in the world becoming increasingly hostile, confused, and shifty. Stay strong to your testiomies friends! And if you need a testimony boost, do as the Prophet suggests and put in the Spiritual work necessary to receive your own answer as to if the teachings of our living Prophets are true.
Thursday night Elder Berges and I made some new finding goals. Our new plan is to give ourselves significantly more time between events so we can litterally talk to everyone we see on the street. It's based off the thought that it is easier to simply talk to every single person then to try and decide who to talk to every time you pass a person. We started Thursday night an saw some awesome miracles just in that one night. For instance, I talked to a man on a scooter at a stop light and since the light was about to change I asked if he would pull over on the other side of the light to talk to us (which is always a nice thing to ask but almost never happens) and he said yeah! We were then able to all a bit more, share a verse out of the Book of Mormon and he set up another time to meet! Way powerful to see the Lord's hand in the work. We just had about and hour but chose to make the most of it we could and blessings resulted!
Saturday marked my first full year of service on island in Taiwan. Pretty surreal. Spend the day teaching a pretty empty English class, getting stood up by a family, visiting a friend to talk about Baptism, and then watching the first episode of the new Book of Mormon videos as an apartment at night. We are all way excited. It's going to be hard to wait a week for each episode!
Sunday was a good time. We had church, watched the Chinese broadcast of the recent face to face for young adults with Elder Soares with all the other YSAs and then biked an hour away into the mountains to teach some families kind of up by where we bought our Aboriginal knifes on p-day. It was a way cool lesson and when we asked the first family if they had any friends who might be interested, she started calling up friends and family for us to visit right then. We didn't have time to visit the village so we ended up just visiting one of her couzin's households and telling her to bring other friends to our appointment next week.
Wish you all a good week,
Elder Neilson
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| good view from a little hill by the beach. We biked up here to call some people. It was really windy and kept pushing our bikes over. |
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| The lake we went to on p-day |
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| We have been playing our Dungeons and Dragons game with the one member and he drew crazy good portraits of all our characters in his free time! |
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| Elder Berges and I by a big empty river bed. |
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| Zone Conference with the Hualian Zone |
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