Wednesday, August 31, 2011

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

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