Dear Family and Friends,
So I don't know if the typhoon that hit Taiwan was broadcast at all, but it was pretty intense. Friday night, the wind woke us up almost every hour and at some point in the middle of the night, our power went out(which includes our AC unit), so we started waking up because it was so hot. Then, Saturday evening, we had to return to the apartment early so we didn't get literally blown away. Psych, it wasn't that bad, but it was bad enough that we had to go home. Below is Elder Chen doing the plan by candle light. Poor us.
But no one got hurt and that's the important thing. Here's our church parking lot where 2 trees got blown over and another one completely snapped in half. Pretty beastly winds.
But again, people wise, everything was ok.
As far as the work goes, Doug is getting baptized this week along with the 8 year old son of a member in the ward. It should be a good service:). Roger is still struggling with things. His house incurred some damage from the storm(he made a point to mention that his Book of Mormon is still fine haha), so he wasn't able to come to church yesterday. Jiazhang is rockin' and rollin'. He's still looking really good to be baptized on the 29th. The biggest challenge right now is that his dad wants to teach him how to drive Sunday mornings, so the past two weeks, he's only been able to come to the first hour of church. I think it's something he'll be able to work around, though.
We also found some new investigators including a FAMILY! They are the Liao family. The mom came to our English class with her daughter this last Wednesday and she was planning on bringing her husband with them to church on Sunday, but then she slept in -__-. We were able to meet them that afternoon, though, and they were SUPER golden! The mom has a really strong Christian background, but hasn't gone to any church in a long time. The dad has a very traditional Buddhist/Taoist background, but he loved all the things we shared with them. At the end of the lesson, he said the prayer. We invited them to pray daily as a family and set up a time this next week to meet and talk about the Book of Mormon. I really think the gospel is what they're looking for:). Pray for them!
Well, this is my last week. I'm going to be working hard until the very end, even though it feels like I'm staring straight into the pit of my everlasting demise sometimes. 哎呀. Well, here goes. Woooooooooo!
-Elder Smith
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