Aug 21st

Alright! This week I will try to write more because someone (mom) was not too happy with the length of last week's email. So I'll try better :)

This week was pretty cool! We started it off by going to the Gaoxiong 85 skyscraper for Preparation Day. Super cool! While we were at the top looking out over the city, I just really felt my love for Taiwan just grow even more. The people here are truly just amazing. I am so glad I get to serve my mission here. Ah, Taiwan is just the best!!! Taiwan number 1! :)

On Tuesday we got to go on exchanges with the Zone Leaders and that was so much fun! Even though it rained the whole time (and the whole week) we still had a blast working hard! Elder Fleming and I were able to teach a new investigator for the first time and this kid was really cool. He seems to really have a strong desire to learn about Christ. He told us that he has just felt like a shadow his whole life. He felt that no one ever noticed him and that he just felt alone. After he told us that, we paused for a moment and thought. Elder Fleming and I then bore testimony that we are never alone. Even though we might feel no one wants to be around us or be friends with us, there is always someone that loves us and that person is God. I really felt the spirit strong as we told this kid our testimonies. I hope he can get baptized. So we had our lesson at the church in that area and right across the street from the church is a big lot of land that has a fence around it. Elder Fleming said we should get a picture with it. I asked why? And then quickly remembered that the church has already purchased a lot of land for a temple to be built in Gaoxiong! Aw yeah!! They haven't announced it yet, but it's coming! You wait!! 

On Friday we had a lesson set up with our investigator Sister Xie. She is the one that is like 65 years old and she is super funny! We decided we needed to bring the big guns to this lesson so we went to a member's house. Yep the same member that was in the seventy. We were going to meet up at the church so she could just follow us there. but it was raining... dun dundun (epic music). I called her and asked if she was on her way. This was our conversation:

"Hey!! Sister Xie! are you almost here?"

"It's raining..."

"Yeah!!"

"I don't want to go out in the rain." 

*side note* all my years of being the youngest child and being able to talk my mom into things finally paid off!

"But Sister Xie we REALLY want to meet with you!! We are waiting for you!"
"How are you getting there?"

"Our bikes!! And we are wearing our rain gear!! You can wear rain gear too!!"

"......ok i'll be there soon."

BOOM. Got her. She came and it was a super good lesson. She finally understood why she needs to get baptized again! Even though ever time we have met we have discussed this and the members have always used good examples and she always says she gets it, then the next time we meet with her she doesn't get it... But she gets it now!! We taught lots of the commandments and she will be having her baptismal interview this week!! Pray all will go well!!

We met with our investigator that has super long hair. Really good lesson. We followed up on reading and prayer and he said he has been doing it and he feels he has gotten an answer. He said he believes it's all true! So good!! hopefully he will get baptized on the 10th so pray for that! At the end of the lesson we were talking about English and asked what his English name is. He doesn't have one and he wants one. Elder Williams and I looked at each other and smiled and both said "Samson!!!" Like the dude in the Bible. We told him that this guy is in the Bible and he is super super 強 which is like beast haha. He loved it!

It was a pretty good week for us! Yesterday we did find out the Tiffany will be leaving on the 10th to Seattle. Oh well, hopefully the missionaries there can baptized her!!!

This week in sacrament meeting, one of the youth got up and bore his testimony. He told us of a story of this super old lady that got baptized really late in her life. She wanted to know why she didn't get baptized sooner because she just loves the gospel. In her Patriarchal Blessing it told her that when she was 20 she could have been baptized but the missionary that was supposed to baptize her didn't go on his mission. It really made me kinda scared thinking about the people that I didn't talk to or might not talk to... It really made me want to keep talking to everyone so no one has to miss out on the gospel and eternal life.

Well I love you all! Keep doing your thing!

Love

Elder Anderson