This week was a fun one. We had interviews with President, started meeting with a new family (only over video call to midigate the rise of passing any sickness) and had two different district councils because we used to have it on Thursday but President announced Monday night to the mission that he wants us all to have district council on Tuesday. Our poor district leader had no time to prepare so he had us do a short goal setting district council on Tuesday but then all the training parts of district council on Thursday.
In interviews with President, President Peterson told Elder Meredith and I that he wasn't exactly sure if he was going to keep us both in Ankang this transfer because he is thinking about putting sisters in the area, or if not enough visas come for new missionaries he might take us out temporarily. In any case we knew that Elder Meredith was going to leave but it sure made transfers more exciting for me to know that the location of my last two transfers as a missionary were pretty up in the air.
Transfers came this morning and turns out nothing too dramatic is happening. President decided to leave me here and my new companion will be a younger missionary named Elder Dobbs. He was actually MTC companions with the misisonary I trained in Hualian (Elder Gibson). And wouldn't you know it but Elder Gibson is coming up to South zone to be in the other companionship in my same ward. So it will be like a weird little reunion after just two transfers. Pretty funny.
The Carona virus keeps making its way around the globe but Taiwan is still pretty much the same. This week some members made all the missionaries some nice cloth masks that you use to cover a normal mask barrier thing. Basically just makes face masks more comfortable and capable of using longer. Should help us stay pretty safe since Elder Meredith and I were running out of other masks to use!
I just finished second Nephi this week in my Chinese reading and was struck by his last line as well. I then went through and skimmed all of first and second Nephi to look for all the good scriptures on obedience that he wrote for us. It's a long list!
1 Nephi 3:7
1 Nephi 9:5
1 Nephi 15:10–11
1 Nephi 16:8, 28
1 Nephi 17:3, 8–9, 13, 15
1 Nephi 19:1, 3
1 Nephi 22:30–31
2 Nephi 1:9, 20
2 Nephi 2:21, 28
2 Nephi 3:2
2 Nephi 5:10, 27, 31
2 Nephi 9:23, 27
2 Nephi 25:24, 30
2 Nephi 26:24, 27–28
2 Nephi 28:30
2 Nephi 31:7, 10, 14, 20
2 Nephi 33:9, 11
Nephi is probably one of the scripture prophets we get the most information about. We don't get such a clear look into the lives of many of the other ones. So amazing to have his example of obedience and faith recorded in such detail! I think it's wonderful to think how the Lord specifically prepared this handwritten account of Nephi for us to read and learn from. We were so close to having a third person account by Mormon! Who knows how that version went. I'm sure it was most of the same stories but I love the personal glimpse we get into Nephis life from his own record.
That's about it.
Have a great week!
Elder Neilson
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| a tasty hamburger we got with a member on preparation day. They like to put peanut butter on hamburgers in Taiwan. Sounds strange at first but it's actually really good! |
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| me standing in front of a broken fountain that we thought looked kind of cool (sorry didn't take a lot of good pictures this week. Kind of have to scrape the bottom of the barrel) |
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| - cool scenery |
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- one of my new fancy masks. It's got some nice dinosaurs on it.
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| - district council part two with drinks and chips |
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