Sorry no letter on Monday, I forgot to tell everyone that P-Day was moved to Wednesday for Christmas!
It's been an exciting last week and a half since my last email. I got transfered to Ankang and started working with my new companion Elder Meredith. He is 10 months into his misison and from Salt Lake City UT. It's been good to get in the city again. Everything moves a lot faster here and everything seems more urgent. I will miss the people I met and the experiences I had in Hualian though. Hualin is the location of some of my favorite mission memories for sure.
Transfers themselves was a little exciting. After some taxi problems to the Train station, an Elder Yang and I missed our train and had to take a later one without seats. So we stood on a train for two hours or so on the ride up to Taipei. Not the most fun, but a good misisonary experience and a good learning experience not to take taxis to the train when in Hualian! Just walk instead. Hahaha
So now I'm in Ankang, back in the south Taipei zone that I started out in and finding myself thrown right into the mix with new leadership responsibilities as a district leader. My new district is made up entirely of missionaries natively from Taiwan, except for Elder Meredith and I, and both the other companionships are training. And get this, the two trainers both just got out of training (they have two transfers under their belt each) and they are actual brother and sister! So long story short, I have a very unique district where I have more missionary experience then all the rest of my district members combined! It's a fun time. Lots of pressure to be a good example though. I have learned in the last week or so (and also through training) that the pressure of responsibility is really good because it throws us right into the refiners fire and forces us to improve ourselves. In other words, welcome to church callings, where the Lord asks you to do something you are not ready to do, so He can teach you at an accelerated pace. Luckily, thanks to His grace and blessing, we can succeed at things we are not ready to do.
This week we also had three big events, a misison wide Christmas singing devotional where all the missionaries came to sing a Christmas concert for the people of Taipei, Christmas Zone Conference, and Temple Pday (today). President Peterson has us running back and forth to the mission office so often I don't know what to do! I'm used to being in Hualian and going to the office once or twice a transfer, if that! It's been fun though and having three spiritually uplifting experiences in the course of a few days is really a nice way to spend Christmas.
Hope you all have a great Christmas day, and a Happy New Year!
(cont'd) ...Its only been a few days but we had a fun exchange with the Zone Leaders where the whole zone went really hard at street finding and kept track of how many people they talked to in the Zone group chat. We all got really hyped about it and it was a fun time. Found some cool people for all our areas.
Had an interesting Sunday where one of the senior sister missionaries took the second hour to talk about parenting tips and how to help discipline children. Not the most useful information for missionaries but it was really interesting to think about the kinds of problems parents deal with. Being a mom and dad sounds pretty hard! My parents made it look so effortless that I never would have known! Good luck to all you parents out there!
Not too much else happened. Its been a fun few days and I'm excited to have a great week!
Have a Happy New Year!
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