June 12, 2011 - SunMoon Bay/ My favorite Lin

Hello family,

Sorry about last week. we went to sun moon lake. which would be fun if we had all day. But.... We don't. We have to be outside talking with people about the gospel at 6 pm. and we got back to the town that I live in at like 530. SO yeah. sorry.
Then we thought our bikes were stolen because they weren't where we left them. They were next to the police station. In a huge pile of other bikes. Soo that took a while to get out.

This week was pretty good.

This week saw our recent convert Lin Di Xiong bless the sacrament. He is so good. He made around 25 scripture cases for everyone in the ward. Everyone calls him Lin Ba Ba. The members love him. I love him. He is going to the temple at the end of the month and on Sunday he will receive his first calling. I'm so excited! And his granddaughter is one of the sister's investigators.

Thats so crazy about Nana and Papa. They have been in that house since I was a little tiny baby!
In response to last weeks letter, yes Our water got fixed and we now have an electric heater that we have to turn on and off. No more gas! Thats good that you got cherry hill passes. Thats cool you got to have dinner with the Evesons. I don't think its "scheming".

Today is the last week of the transfer cycle. Next week I will be starting my 10th transfer cycle which makes me old. Its like turning 40 in real life. Not that that means you guys are old mom and dad........ cough.
Anyway. I will be coming home in like 40 ish weeks. So I need to make sure I start making some good mission goals so that I can get the things done that the Lord has sent me to do.

Sorry this was short again, We are all going to an all you can eat bar b q as a district.
Love Elder Beau Chandler Graham
Ps..... I may need some bottom garments......

June 5, 2011 - Forced Zone Activity

Sorry we had a boring day long, forced, zone activity that was a waste of time and money. I have to be teaching a lesson in twenty minutes and all my stuff is at the house and we still have to buy a bunch of stuff.

I got the package, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE GARMENTS. And the candy. But I am trying to loose weight...haha.

Yes Sisi you can confirm Pinky on facebook. She has the absolutely cutest Asian baby you have ever seen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! promise! And when we come back I want to see that baby. I also promised her that When that baby turns 8 I will come to Taiwan and baptize her. She is super cute.
Well I'm sorry. I have to go buy food and stuff for the week.
Elder Graham

May 29,2011 - Baptism and Elder Bednar

Dear Family,

OK so this week... lets see...was good.
Brother Lin was baptized! Yay! It was really cool.
This week was combined district training meeting and it was really cool and I learned a lot about how to help people have a good experience at church. I also got to hear my trainer give his "bye bye" speech. Its so weird that my first companion is going home. At that same meeting I had to present my districts numbers. Which of course made me look good except most of the baptisms are from the sisters.. Oh well.
you guys should go on my facebook and confirm chen hsiao ting. She is the most lihai missionary. Baptizing family after family after family... But she went home and is going to BYU soon I think. I don't know. She has better English than I do. Its really sad.
Yesterday at church I had to translate for the white guy that lives in our ward. He has been here for 6 years and does not speak Chinese. He is also our ward mission leader. He spoke on missionary work. So I knew all the vocab and stuff.

Thank you for the garments and stuff. This week our water heater broke and our landlord is lazy and hasn't fixed it yet. Which means cold, cold, cold, freezing cold showers. And our washing machine has this thing where it NEEDS hot water or else it wont work. So yeah we haven't been able to wash our clothes either.

That's really cool that Dale is the new bishop. He will be good.

Oh yeah. On Saturday David A. Bednar came to Taiwan and spoke to all the members in Taiwan. Using really cool tech stuff, it was broadcasted to all the stake centers. Including our building. It was really cool. It wasn't just him up there speaking on a topic that he wanted to talk about either. He had a question and answer session. And anyone in Taiwan could call and ask a question. All the youth asked about marriage and dating. All of the local church leaders wanted to know how to best help the lost sheep that are known as less active members. So yeah it was really cool. It took twice as long because he had a translator translate for him and and someone translating for the Taiwan.

Well this elder has to write his presidents letter now.
Love Elder Graham