"Hope of Douliu, we're alright!
Though we're wet, for the gospel we'll fight!"
(Copyright Elder Meanea 2018)
Monday, 11 June 2018
This was a rather slower week. Our investigators from before have been a little silent, so it's been a work of building back up our pool. Today was went to a Chidaobao (all-you-can-eat) with an RC named Brother Cheng. It was really good, and then we went and got Elder Francesconi a haircut. After that it was all contacting and stuff. At the last second we decided we wanted to go visit a less-active member and drop off a birthday card, so we biked about an hour out. It was pretty good! We only got a little lost coming back.
Tuesday, 12 June 2018
We spent this morning doing service at a picture book library. We sorted and shelved the books, which was pretty good. My time in Taiwan has made me appreciate service a lot more now. Then tonight we had an activity with the youth about setting goals, and they had a Monopoly type game after, and we better hope it wasn't a precursor to my life because I was bankrupt much too quickly.
Wednesday, 13 June 2018
We were preparing a lot of stuff for creative contacting today. We have a Book of Mormon fortune teller that you can play with people to read a verse from the Book of Mormon with them. And then we made some cards for member's birthdays that would could drop off while contacting in an area. After that was our English class. It's still a little small, but we got three new referalls from the English website! It's something Taipei mission cooked up and it works really well for getting people to English class and also knowing if they are interested in the Gospel.
Thursday, 14 June 2018
We had district meeting today with a new district leader, because our old one got called to train and emergency transferred out. It was a pretty Good DTM talking about goal setting, which is something I really appreciate since I want to be as effective as possible this month. And then a kid Elder Francesconi contacted in a park showed up for a church tour today! His name is Zeng, and when we invited him to read the Book of Mormon, he said "Five minutes a day? Like, I'll probably read more than that." And it made us really happy.
Friday, 15 June 2018
Weekly planning ended with a trip to a burger shop here in Douliu. It was pretty good, and we ate with our RC friend Cheng. After that we had to bike out of town to visit an investigator named Zhang. He was super cool and we invited him to be baptized after teaching about How the gospel has been restored through Joseph Smith. He said he would ponder about it! After visiting with him, we biked down to Douliu and headed home.
Saturday, 16 June 2018
This morning we visited a less-active family who have a kid that is about to turn 8, and the parents want him to be baptized. So they invited us to come over and start teaching him the lessons. He and his little brother are super funny, and it's an amazing chance to see all four of them get active again eventually. This night was an absolute downpour and we were out in it for about 2 hours dropping off cards because there was no one on the streets. It was a pretty fun time and it took 'till Monday for my shoes to be fully dry.
Sunday, 17 June 2018
A good Sabbath. We headed down to Jiayi for stake conference. We all went down with the ward in a tour bus, but we refrained from using the Karoeke machine, though I was highly tempted to re-create the scene from the movie "College Road-Trip." After coming home we did some more contacting and had correlation with Pinocchio, our ward mission leader. And that's a week folks!
I am very grateful for many things. It is incredible to look back even through the past two years of my service and realize despite how well or poor I think I've done, there have been so many blessings that I have seen. It helps me know that God really loves each of us. I hope you all feel that too.
-Elder Meanea
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