Justin Beiber

Oh man what a week. So last Monday one of this area's eternigators (he's been investigating for 20 years.....) knows that I love baseball soooo much so he took us out to the baseball stadium in Tanzi and we got to look at it and such! I'll send some pictures of it because it is sooo sweet! But that is just another reason why I love the people here so much. It was so nice of him to do that and me and him talk about baseball all the time and I love it. 

That was one of the good things that happened this week haha. It was rough for me and Elder Fleming. So on Monday we were going to head out to Da ya to play basketball with the Zone Leaders. We were too tired to ride our bikes so we decided to take the bus (it's like a 30 minute bike ride). Do you all remember that one Spongebob episode where he is trying to catch the bus but they all leave him? That is kind of what it was like. We park our bikes and get to the stop and the 123 bus just drove right on past us even though we tried to flag it down. So we waited and waited and waited then we turn around to look at the schedule and saw that a bus should be coming soon! We turn around and it just drove past us.... it was the worst. Sooo we didn't go play basketball after all. 

Oh man and we had tons of lessons and peikes fell through so that was rough and like two investigators dropped us :( One of them met with us and we asked him what was the one thing he wants God to give him. He said he wants his girlfriend back. We told him because God loves us he wants to help us and such. So we invited him to say the closing prayer and he prayed they would get back together and no joke right after we said amen she called him. They got back together! Aaaaaannd then he dropped us. Haha whoops. 

Anyways, I bet you are all wondering what the subject of my email means. So on Wednesday we were eating dinner and waiting for english class to start and one of the sister's RCs always comes early so she was sitting by us and a few members. Pretty quiet girl, she doesn't say much because she's like 14 and a little shy and such but out of no where she said "You look like Justin Beiber." then of course I was like heck no I don't. Then she was like, "Yeah! You look like a fat Justin Beiber!" Oh man, for the next 20 minutes she kept pulling up pictures of him and comparing him to me and the whole time the members and my companions are just laughing their heads off... it was the meanest compliment I have ever received haha. But there's that. Enjoy

But yeah, HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! We celebrated Halloween with an exchange and a baptism!!! I got to go on an exchange with Elder Pennington out in Da Ya. He is super cool and we are pretty much the same person because we both love all of the same things. It was super fun. Plus he is really good at contacting so I was able to learn so much. We actually talked to this guy that lived in Denver for a few years and had like perfect english. We invited him to stake conference this weekend and he actually came! He only came for an hour because he got bored (but let's be honest, I'd probably say most of you would want to leave after an hour :)) then he said he would come back next week! so that was super cool! So on Halloween morning we helped out with a little party thing at the church. It was exhausting. Me and Elder Pennington were in charge of entertaining the little kids for like 4 hours or more! There was like 45 of them!! It was crazy!! They were super cute but crazy! We got to the church at 9:30 and didn't leave until 2:30. 5 hours of straight mayhem. We were so tired after that.

Then that night we had a baptism! He di xiong was able to come back from the military and be baptized! I actually had the opportunity to help him be baptized so that was really cool! And I didn't even mess up in the prayer once! Woo! Baptisms!!!! Loved it. 

Sorry I emailed so late today. One of our investigators took us into Taichung and we went around and looked at stuff. We were going to go to the batting cages but we didn't have time :( maybe some other week.

Anyways, I hope you are all doing well and I love you all so much! This church is true and never forget it!

Love Elder Anderson