This week for pday we went up to a lake and rode some four people/tandem bikes and also did a hike. It was pretty chill. Fun time with all the missionaries and a few members.
This week was transfers and the most exciting part was when one of the new elders missed his first train on transfers day which caused him to get lost for two hours! All is well that ends well but his companion was stressing pretty bad traveling to a bunch of different train stations trying to find the new Elder!
On Saturday we went to a Thanksgiving concert talent show thing at the church where a bunch of members in Hualian performed. I was pretty impressed with the amount of musical talant from the members. it's also fun being in a different country because sometimes people bring out instruments you don't see a lot of in America such as Chinese bamboo flutes and giant bass recorders. Someone even had a hybrid electric/acoustic ukulele!
Sunday was the primary program which is always a kind of weird meeting, made a little weirder because our ward only has around 5 primary kids. We brought our friend Mr. Li and I am not sure what he thought about it. I did make sure to tell him we only do this once a year. Haha. On Sunday we also started choir practice for the Christmas musical activity, because if my parents have taught me anything about the church, it is to always join the ward choir. It was a fun time but it's also kind of hard because the hymnals are all in characters and the romanized pronunciation lyrics have no notes! So I have to juggle back and fourth and sometimes I just sing sounds that sort of sound like words when I loose where we are! Good thing is I have heard all the Christmas songs enough that the parts are not too hard to sing by ear.
This week I have made a more concentrated effort to read the Book of Mormon in personal Study, in the traditional front to back manner instead of just jumping around trying to find good scriptures. I have been able to find many more verses that I like through this manner of study which is a great blessing. Always makes personal Study more exciting when you find verses to write notes about!
Have a great week everyone!
Elder Neilson
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| - Super four man bike on pday |
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| Last district council before transfers |
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| Hualian train station |
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| Giant spider we found in the bathroom one night |
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| Missionaries at the end of the hike on pday |
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