Week 16 Tucheng

 This week has been really good. And pretty miracle filled. And just overall really fun.

Monday we went hiking. It was really cool and beautiful. We went with a member and His daughter. This member is really cool, he is one of my favorite. His daughter is like 4 years old and we went down the mountain a different way then we came up. It's a spot where you have to hold onto a rope and lower yourself down the rocks. So the member was connected to his daughter with a rope and then they went down. It was crazy. The hike was super fun and the weather that day was kind of hot.

Tuesday we had district council and we contacted some people. We then went to a 7 and we had an English service. With this guy named Alexis and his wife. It was good to talk to them. I can't remember what else. Probably studies and some street contacting.

Wednesday we did personal study first. Personal study is always the best. You get a break from everything and just get to learn. 

That night we had English group. And we had 19 new people come and 29 people in total. We split the class into three groups. And the sisters came and they invited a whole family of 6 and they are going to come to church and want to pray. This is so awesome and could be amazing. It was all really good.

Thursday we exchanged in the morning. I went with Elder Chao. He is a native. So that was nice to practice my Chinese some more. He did speak English pretty well though. 

We did some finding and had a chat with a guy who wanted to talk from Facebook. So we basically taught him the plan of salvation. It could have some potential. During finding there was this kind of weird guy. Who when you didn't look at him he would whisper really quietly a bunch of weird things. It was scary and i got the chills.

We also had some lessons that night as well.

The apartment I went to was a four man. And the other two went home Saturday morning. It was good to be with them before they go home. They are both really cool. And I'm good friends with one of them.

Friday we switched back and had an English service with this guy name sonic. He was so cool. He invited us to his home. It was so cool. He has a bunch of plants in all his windows balcony things. He also had two fish tanks. And he had two turtles. A small one and a big one. Both in different tanks. They also had a frog. He has 3 kids.

Its always so sad to hear people talk about Taiwan. And that they just want to make it out. Taiwan is really hard work. School is super long. And they work long hours.

But he is planning to get a stingray in his home someday.

We also went to the temple for an endowment session. It was really awesome. President Yang and Sister Yang, the mission presidents, joined us. It was really refreshing. We then said goodbye to the missionaries leaving and grabbed our Christmas packages and went back to our area.

We then had some phone calls with people. 

Saturday we had an English service with tony. We've been teaching our English people how to pray. And lately through English we've gotten a lot of new friends technically. We then had our Christmas ward activity. It was so awesome. We had food and the ward performed the nativity. And the kids played some games. We had that family with 5 kids come so that was really good.

Sunday we had some lessons that didn't happen sadly. But Sunday was really nice. And we watched the first presidency Christmas devotional for the last hour. After that we ate left over food from the Christmas party for lunch together that's one thing I really liked. The members are all really close and super fun and nice. Sunday was awesome. 

That was basically all we did. This week has been really awesome. 

One of my favorite scriptures I read this week is

John 3:17 "16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

God truly loves us and sent Jesus so we can make it back to him. And live forever in endless happiness. I'm not sure what eternal happiness would feel like. But it gives me hope. 

We also can live forever with our families because of Jesus Christ. I'm so grateful to share that with people in Taiwan 

愛你們，

Elder Clegg