The Email That Everyone Has Been Waiting For

WEEK 68:

Hello Everyone, 

This week and the last, me and my companion (for those English scholars reading this email, my companion and I) had made a goal to find more people as that has been the main concern with our companionship and zone recently. With Chinese New Year coming closer, many people have been moving out of town and preparing for this week long holiday. The Ward has also been supportive of missionaries with finding people and feeding us, they are currently, making a timetable in order that the missionaries will be fed lunch and dinner everyday during the Chinese New Year. 

Back to the goals we had set, this week we were able to find 3 new people and 2 the last week, a real improvement over the last couple weeks with 0-1 new people per week average. Looking on the streets have been particularly uneventful because the cool and very windy weather make strangers much less willing to talk. We have been getting most of our new people from English class and members, hence the aforementioned. Through our continued diligence, we are continuing to see God's blessings being given to us, a matter that can be sometimes too often overlooked. 





With English class being a successful source of people to teach, we have been spending more time to make comprehensive lessons. many blessings have come from this, one in particular this week, a student gave me an apple (we recently taught about teachers and how students in America would give an apple to the teacher as a sign of respect) and a nice watch that I have been wanting to buy! We now have matching watches. 

We are also the movers of things. Two members needed help moving some large and heavy furniture up and down Taiwans very thin staircases. The first family had many large pieces of art that needed to be moved, while sounding not very difficult, the ceilling was very short and I needed to duck while walking on the stairs, adding a new degree of difficulty. The 2nd member only needed one thing moved, a very large and very nice wooden table, weighing over 100lbs, easy right? I should have taken a picture of the staircase, which is hardly wide enough for 2 Taiwanese walk by each other. And another point, we had to wear flip flops (strictly no shoes worn inside the home, only these slippers) and mine, like always, were way to small (I am convinced that you can buy the right size slippers for me nowhere in Taiwan), so walking down the stirs was quite dangerous. I'm extremely thankful for these oppertunites to serve because the oppertunites are rare. Many people just aren't willing to accept help. 


Thank you for everyone's support and emails, unilt next week
Elder Yang
楊長老