Temple Trip

Yep! Elder Stevenson came and visited our mission this week! It was so cool! The whole mission got together and he spoke to us and it was just awesome! The spirit was so strong the whole entire meeting and he really spoke some comforting words to my heart. I could go on for a while about what he talked about, but that will take too long. So I'll just tell you my favorite part. At the end of his talk he gave us all an apostolic blessing. He blessed us with peace, comfort, confidence, power to endure, and to allow us to love fully the people we are serving. It was so amazing. That was only 4 days ago and I already am seeing the results of the blessing. I feel more confidenct when I go to contact someone on the streets and just yesterday in our ward activity I just felt an overwhelming sense of love for the people here in 潭子. It will be hard to leave this ward but luckily I still have a lot of time left. The people in Taiwan are just the best! I love them so much!!!

So also this week we had a really awesome lesson with a new investigator. We shared the first lesson and we had him read the page in the pamphlet about Joseph Smith. Then him and the member we brought with us started talking and he was saying how before, he didn't really understand much of what we were saying but after and while he was reading that page he said he felt something special. Oh man the spirit was so strong and I know for a fact that he felt it!!! We recited the first vision and then invited him to be baptized and he accepted!! But the bad part is, we didn't set up a date because he thinks it will take him a while mainly because the member said they met with the missionaries for 2 years so he thinks he needs to wait that long. So hopefully when we meet with him this week he will change his mind and set up for around Christmas!

OH AND THANKSGIVING WAS THIS WEEK! Woo! I just remembered!! So while all of you were pigging out on good food, we went out to eat with a member to a little Italian place. Of course I couldn't read the menu because it was all in characters but in the pizza section there was some Italian and it said traditionale or something like that so I figured that was safe to get. Nope, wrong choice. Instead of cheese and pepperoni, I got a little bit of lettuce and a bunch of little dried fish things on my pizza. Yeah it was disgusting. So be grateful that you all got turkey and pumpkin pie. :)

I don't have much time to write because since we are going to the temple this week we only get an hour to email today and then an hour on Wednesday (so if I don't email you back today I'll get you on Wednesday) but here is a really great story for the week. So we were meeting with and RC that has been rather less active and then this random guy wanted to come and talk with us so we were like alright cool! We started talking about baptism and this guy said he was baptized before but it was only a sprinkling baptism. Our RC was super confused! He was like "I was baptized by immersion like what?" and they kept talking for a while and then our RC said, "But I think your baptism counts too. Like you should be ok!" We were like noooooooooooo!!! Come on! Don't you remember the stuff about the priesthood and being baptized with the proper authority??? We didn't say that, but we were definitely laughing on the inside.

Well sorry this doesn't really have much detail in it. The best two parts of the week were definitely our lesson with our investigator and Elder Stevenson visiting us!

Hope you all are happy and holding to the rod! 加油！

Love，

Elder Anderson 孫長老