So as you all know last week I moved to the big city of Kaohsiung. (weird spelling huh?) And that was my first time moving. Ohhh moving is horrible. Last monday (the day that I moved) started out like this; I woke up at 6:00 a.m. like normal, but unlike normal I woke up with a massively horrible bloody nose. Then, after treating my bloody nose I had to finish packing. The night before I stayed up until 1:30 ish packing and doing laundry but because our dryer is broken I had to just hang my clothes up overnight on the balcony. Unfortunately it rained a little during the night... But at 730 we had to go to the mission office.. So after a quick shower I put my still semi-wet clothes in plastic bags and put them in my suitcase. Then we put my bike and my suitcases on a tjoin truck to be delivered the next day at my new apartment. We then took the bus to the Mission office, said goodbye to the missionaries who were going home, said goodbye to my companion, and got on another bus to go to the train station. After the three hour train ride I got off the train, said hi to my mtc companion and found my new companion! And my new companion is the same asian that helped me on Dan Jones night my first night in Taiwan. cool huh?
I got lucky because he didn't have a bike there for me but our area and our apartment is only a ten minute walk from the train station. My companion and his old companion love bikes.
So on preparation days they would find random broken bikes that were in trash cans, and use the parts to build a bike. So for the first 2 days here, I rode this crazy bike.Also for that two days I only had my small bag consisting of my scriptures and two days worth of garments and basic toiletries. uhhh horrible.
But I do love having a local companion. He is so funny. He makes me laugh all the time and now I have to use chinese all the time and just in the last week my chinese has improved more than I thought possible in just one week. He's so asian. Silly asians. But I love them...
Anyway this week went by really fast, without a lot of special things. There is a member in our ward who is a white guy who married a taiwanese girl, and his chinese is way good. He speaks with a beijing accent but with the "ah"s on the end just like the taiwanese do. Its kinda funny. But anyway, yesterday he was made the bishop of the ward. Him and his kids are the only white people in the ward! Its a good thing his chinese is so good. He served his mission in Houston Texas speaking chinese and then he moved here for work and never went back. And he has been here for about 15 years. He even recognised my name correctly which even some taiwanese people don't do.
Did I tell you guys about one of the new Elders in this mission named Elder Mutton? Anyway if didn't I'm sorry because its so funny. The name they gave him at the MTC is yang2 rou4! I laughed for about ten minutes. yang2 rou4 zhang3 lao3..... Elder lamb meat.... anyway. I thought it was funny. I think they might have changed his name by now though. So funny.
Im sad to hear broke city stopped playing together.
So yesterday at church I don't know why but we were in the library and because there used to be an English branch there, I found stacks and stacks of old Ensigns starting in 1992. All the way to like 2002ish. Gold! Money in the bank. Who knew that my favorite part of being a missionary is the hour of personal study we get every morning. And I love reading the Ensigns. But I read through some of the old ones from 1992 and its interesting to me that back then we didn't have the cell phones we have today, mp3`s didn't exist let alone ipods and such. But the prophets were speaking on the problems we still have today. I don't know. It was interesting to me.ummm right now we dont have any investigators or anything and we dont have very many lessons. I havent gotten a package yet. nope.
Sisi - you run really fast.
See you in two years,
Beau
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