A fairly hectic, but fun and interesting day. I helped Elder Densley get to the train station in Taichung, and then split off with my zone leaders to have P-Day and most of this week down in Caotun. We emailed, got some bikes fixed, and moved stuff from their old apartment to their new apartment before heading out to contact for the night! It was super fun, both my zone leaders are super hard workers. And it makes me feel like God is giving me just a little extra pump up, some last leadership training before he makes me step up to being in front myself.
Tuesday, 4 July 2017
Another day with the zone leaders. They have a pretty fun area, in which we spent the whole day just having lessons and traveling around to other lessons, because they are just really good at finding. Not much else happened today except a few lessons with a lot of cool investigators. Sorry, there really isn't much else for me to write. I'll see you all tomorrow.
Wednesday, 5 July 2017
A fun last day with the zone leaders! We contacted a lot and it was cool to see how much faith and diligence brings in at the end of the day. It was one of the most productive missionary days I've been a part of. We met some cool people, ate some great ice cream, and also taught English class together! I haven't taught English since training, so that was an experience. I'm really excited to take all the things I learned here and put it back in Puli. I know it's all in the Lord's Hands, and I'm more excited now than ever to see the miracles abound as I take my trainee on a journey with me as we both learn how to be better disciples of Christ. Of course I'll be losing my mind in about 5 minutes again stressing about training, but at least I know it's God's plan. It always is, I just have to follow it.
Thursday, 6 July 2017
I got my new best friend Elder Hansen today! He is so freaking cool, his faith and enthusiasm are unbeatable, and I'm just so excited that we get to work together in Puli for the first part of his mission! I met him at the new missionary meeting in Taichung, and then we took the bus back to Puli. We got home just in time to do some weekly planning (haha, got you. It wasn't on Friday this time. ;-) and then go to a members house for dinner and to eat cake for another member in our ward who was having a birthday! Then contacting that night we met two really cool people. One is named Ye, and the other was Han. They both set up to meet with us in the next two days, which I'm really excited for. Then that night we were going down a road and I saw a house a little ways off a side road, so I turned. As soon as my wheel touched the pavement a chorus of barks filled the air, and I saw some dogs running a little ways off. Half jokingly I turned around and told Elder Hansen to bike for his life, and then I looked back two seconds later to find that we actually needed to bike for our lives! They were suddenly right on our heels and chased us way down the street! To make matters worse, Elder Hansen was still waiting for his new bike, so he just had to peddle like crazy on this dinky little spare bike we had. We laughed so hard that night. I'm the best trainer.
Another awesome day with not a few miracles! We had district meeting, the first one taught by myself, which was good. I mean, it at least wasn't a disaster, so that means it was a success, right? After which we went to meet Ye, and he wasn't home, But his brother was, and he said he would be back soon. Then he pulled up and we taught him about prayer and the Book of Mormon right on his doorstep. He seemed to love it, but he has to go do military service until September, so at least he can take it with him even though we won't be able to meet with him. Then the last miracles of the night are Mr. Liu and Mrs. Guo. We knocked on their door and they were the first ones to answer while we were tracting last night, and they let us right in. They were super interested in prophets, and after talking for a while, said we can come back next week and teach again! What a great day!
Saturday, 8 July 2017
Another absolutely fantastic day! We started out by tracting before it was time to go to our lesson with Elehan, who we met on Thursday. We shared the whole first lesson, and Elder Hansen was fantastic! The Spirit was really strong, and he set up to meet with us and a member next week and to read the Book of Mormon and pray every day! It was so great. Then we met with Wang again, which was super exasperating, because he still has all these weird thought processes and won't listen to us. But then that night we got let in tracting again! An older man named Chen with his grandkids let us in to share about the Restoration and he said we could come back tomorrow night! It's a wonderful day ladies and gentleman! We just had a great time talking to a lot of really cool people. We've been super blessed these past few days.
Sunday, 9 July 2017
What. A. Day. We had church meetings today, got everyone introduced to Elder Hansen which was really fun, because half of the people here speak at least enough English to say, "Welcome to Taiwan!" I love our ward. And we had a man show up who we thought was our investigator. I only met him once 6 weeks ago, and I asked if his last name was "Li" and he mis-heard and thought I said "Lin" and said yes. So I went through all the meetings thinking he was our investigator, but then he wasn't. Whoops. Oh well! And then a couple from our ward fed us pizza and we had a great lesson with Brother Chen, a man we met tracting last night. He was super into what we shared again, and agreed to read the Book of Mormon and start praying about it. It was a really great lesson.
Elder Hansen has had quite the first week of training. He's been teaching way better than I could have my first few weeks in the field, and he is just such a loving and diligent missionary. I don't know why I'm training him, he's training me. I am so blessed to be serving right now and inviting these people to come unto Christ. I love it all so much. And that's it for this week folks! I love you all as well!
-Elder Meanea
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