Taiwan June 6, 2014

Well hello all!! 

     我先跟我媽媽談一下：）鐘姐妹真的對我們很好！他的女兒上個禮拜５開始傳教！他的老大。他有請我們吃兩三次，所以，我們真很幸福！他會請我們吃海鮮的事務，例如：魚，海蛋，河豚皮，之類的東西：D　都很好吃！

     Well this week has been super fun!!!!! To add to the heat, It has now rained for 3 days straight haha ;) sometimes harder than others, but always raining. So now it is hot, humid, and raining ;) but hey, let me just say, people give you a lot of free food when you have to ride 1 hour to a lesson in the pouring rain ;) hahaha. We wear rain jackets, but after riding for about 10 minutes, you're still soaked haha, it's just not from the rain....... (lets all ponder that for a second..... ;) 

So this week was super fun!! Had some moments of tension, and some moments of joy, moments of tears, and moments of laughter :D Just another week in the land of Taiwan on a mission haha! I'll get to the whole week update thing in just a second ;) 

So Sister Guo our investigator is doing amazing!!!!! She learns so quick, and when we teach her, she takes notes on everything that we're saying! She's planning Elder Lindsey's birthday party for him, and she already calls this church "Our Church"! It's so amazing to see how much her faith is growing! This week as we talked to her, she told us more about her past, and things that have happened. She told us the sorrow and regret for past things, and how she wished she would have made more time for this gospel, but now that she's starting to hear the gospel, she's super happy!!! It has been 13 days since we met her, and she says that these 13 days have been the happiest days of her life! She still wants to go on a mission, but we're not sure she can go on a full proselyting mission...  maybe a temple mission, but we will have to see ;) We watched the Emma Smith movie with her, and she said that she felt touched by the faith of Emma, and said that she wishes to have the faith and trust in God as Emma does. Wow. I'm completely blown away with how amazing her faith is already, and I look forward to meeting with her every week!!!!!! 

So that is the good side of this week :D Now to the other stuff, and to the.... well.... "Dueling" part haha ;) 

Monday: SUPER peaceful P-day!!!!! We had a member from Chao Zhou come and take us to the Forest park here in Kenting (the one we went to before, remember mom and dad?? haha) And it was really fun! I'll send photos :D After that we had a Family home evening with Sister Guo, and she asked us what things we're not allowed to eat or drink in the church, so we told her about the word of wisdom, and she personally invited herself to obey it. It was pretty cool haha :D

Tuesday: ZTM day!!!! A good training meeting haha! So for this meeting we have to go up to KaoHsiung, and so we left at 8 in the morning, to a 2 hour bus to PingTung, Then a 1 Train ride to KaoHsiung Feng Shan station, and then a 20 minute Taxi to the Niao Song Chapel. (I should probably just write the Chinese to those haha.....) We had a great meeting!!!!! Learned a lot, and then came home, and when we got home, it was already 8:00 at night! So... a whole day going to ZTM and back ;) Joy :D We still met with a less active, and had a good time :D 

Wednesday: We went to Man Zhou again, and it was quite a wet journey, because it was raining the whole time haha :D Then a bit of drama came in, Because our Investigator was invited by a 80 year old member to attend a party thing. I guess at the party some things happened, and they ended up yelling at each other, and being super mad at each other. So from Wednesday to Friday, we always kept getting calls from both of them about how they're mad and that the other person was wrong.... oh joy haha, but in the end it's all ok, they've said sorry more or less...... ya :) 

Thursday: It was raining still, so you know what that means??? nobody comes to lessons haha! yay...... However, we still contacted people, and did our best to meet with people ;D 

Friday: We met with a bunch of less actives, and also met with Sister Guo, and taught her the Plan of Salvation. She loved it, and said she's excited to be with those in her personal "Celestial Kingdom" as she tries her hardest :D Then she wanted to help us in our next lesson, so she came with us as we visited another less active, and she personally found out that the person we were visiting was less active, and then invited them to church by herself, and bore testimony!! We were completely blown away by how amazing it was haha!! 

Saturday: Today it really rained haha, but we still got to meet with a lot of people :D We had the ward activity and watched The Emma Smith movie, and it was all good :D 

Sunday: a very busy sunday!! After church, we went to find some friends :D Then went to a secondary area Che Cheng and found some people :D Yes, it was a really good week, and sister Guo came to church, and a less active she invited to come to church actually came!!!! 

So yes, that was our week, it was amazing and full of miracles! I'm constantly reminded of the face that if you want to get a lot out of life, you must put a lot of effort into it. I feel like I have been so blessed by the lord as I have tried putting my heart into this work. I'm so grateful to be in Heng Chun at this time serving the Lord, and pray I can keep pushing on and doing my best!!!! 

CTR, (義)

Elder Dawson (陶長老) 

The southern part of Taiwan at the Kenting forest national park 

A funny Lizard we found haha :D 

Taiwan May 27, 2014

Well hello all, 

     I'll get to my email subject in just a second ;) 

     So wait Sister Mangelson is off..... well I'll be praying for her!!!!! Good luck Whitney!!!!!!!! I hope you'll be able to come back someday :D And They're going to 上海!? For how long!? Wa! That's so crazy!!!!!! Maybe we will have to visit them when we get back haha ;) 

So....... Yes we eat lots of watermelon here, and there is a vendor down the street that sells coconut juice from the Coconut. Like she cracks it open in front of you to give it to you to drink haha, so that should be no worries ;) 

Well mom, good luck on the cooking!!!!!!! I know it will all go good, and I hope you wont be too 頭痛 Thinking about it haha ;) and I will definitely continue praying for Miriam. 

So, me and Elder Lindsey will be together another move call, and for that I am super grateful!!!! I'm excited to be with him again for 6 more weeks haha :D And..... this move call me and him are..... (wait for it).... Facebook Missionaries!!!!!!!!!!! Yay!!!! So that means from now on for the rest of my mission, I can use facebook! HOWEVER!!!! This does not mean I can chat with you on facebook, I am only to use it to do missionary things, like post photos of the people we're meeting with, message members and investigators, and stuff like that :D So If anyone from home messages me while I'm on, sorry, I can't answer, and It'll just be better to send me a email :D haha :D So ya, that was exciting :D 

So here in Heng Chun, I have learned Bo, Po, Mo, Fo and can type using it now. It may take me a little while, but I can do it haha :D I got my bike fixed, and it keeps breaking!!! so I've had to fix the tire, spokes, and replace the bike stand. Not super fun, but that's ok :D 

It's good to hear from you all :D and as such, you probably want to hear from me haha ;) that's fair..... I guess I can do that :D 

Monday: Elder Lindsey got wooden shoes from a member here for P-Day, and let me just say, they're really cool haha :D They're all wood, you can chose the bad thing you want, and then he uses this drill thing and engraves whatever you want on them :D It's so cool!!! Hey family, let me know if you want them, because I can get them here and send them home for you :D They're really cool haha :D 

tuesday: It was a rainy day, but that is ok! It did not damper our spirits! ..... even though all of our lessons stood us up. However, that's ok, because we had other lessons later :D 

Wednesday: We went to Man Zhou 滿州 and met with some people, came back, and had an amazing English class with our investigator family, the Liang Family!!!!! ah!!!! :D I Love them so much, and they're progressing pretty good :D 

Thursday: We did service at an old persons center and it was pretty fun :D They were all these like 80 of 90 year old grandma's who don't even speak mandarin Chinese, so we couldn't communicate with them haha ;) But we just smiled, sang, and taught some English and it was all fun :D 

Friday: We met with a new investigator Brother Zeng 曾佑聖 and he was awesome! He's actually already heard all the lessons and wanted to be baptized so bad, but couldn't because he was on parole for some things he did in TaiPei when he was younger. Everytime we call him he's like "I'm still repenting" but because of the change in him, his parole might be shortened to be done on June 25!! And the first thing he wants is to be baptized so he can go to the Celestial kingdom! It's super awesome haha :D 

Saturday: The Liang family took us out to a super expensive dinner!! It was way to nice and they're way too good to us haha! It's crazy! I was grateful for them, and now we're going to do something nice back for them :D 

Sunday: A crazy miracle sunday!!! We had 4 less actives come, and the Liang family!!!!!!! Those in total almost doubled the people we had at church haha! Super cool :D It was the Liang families first time at church, and it was amazing!!!!! They liked it, and liked singing and praying with others :D They have a hard time making new friends, so it's been kind of hard helping introduce them to ward members, so this was a huge leap forward!! It was super cool!! :D 

so yes, that was the week!!! pretty good, very fun, and lots of work! Me and Elder Lindsey are going into this next week full steam ahead, and hope to be able to do all that's required of us this next move call! Let us all press on!!! 

CTR, (義)

Elder Dawson (陶長老) 

English Party

  PDay On a Tank

Taiwan May 18 2014

Hello everyone!!!!

     It's been a great week hasn't it?? I love hearing about how all of you are doing, and hope you will enjoy hearing about my week haha :D 

So first of, Congratulations Karen!!!!!!!!!!!! You're Graduated!!!!!!!!! wa!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's so awesome!!!! I wish I could have been there to see haha, You're going to be the newest and best and most  厲害 Orthopedic Surgeon that the world has ever seen!!!!! I can't wait till I get back and can join you in the medical field :D Ghee :D 

So, I am doing good this week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's been an amazing move call with Elder Lindsey! He is by far my favorite companion so far haha :D There's a possibility he might move next Monday, so I'm kind of sad...... but that's ok, I'm sure my next companion will be good too...... just not as good as Elder Lindsey haha ;) 

This week, I decided to put my heart into learning Bo, Po, Mo, Fo witch is like the Chinese alphabet. It has 37 Characters, and it's actually pretty good!!! I can type using the keyboard now, and not a PinYin Translator, but it takes really really long.... yikes. haha, but I'm still going for it! yay!! It's been a good journey, and I think it'll help me a lot be able to text people and stuff here in Taiwan :D 

well this week was a crazy adventure!!!!!! Every day we wen't somewhere somewhat far, want to hear about it?? oh..... let me tell you ;) 

Monday: Got to see my parents!!!!! and family!!!!!! yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! haha, all that good fun, and then we went to an aquarium in our secondary area. It took us like 45 minutes to ride there, and it was really hot, but super worth it! The aquarium was beautiful and had air conditioning :D Ghee :D 

Tuesday: We went out to the coast line about 1 hour away to a vacation resort of YoHo to visit a former. It was really fun, and super cool!! Her name is 小玉, or small jade, and she's a super cool investigator! She likes to introduce us to her friends and talk about God, so it's going good :D 

Wednesday: We took our weekly trip up to Man Zhou (1 away.... over a mountain....) and met with our investigators Sister Yu and Brother Xiong (Xiong is bear.... so I guess he's Brother Bear hahahaha) and also ate some Man Tou. All of the investigators we're teaching are still in the beginning stages, and it's cool to be able to teach them all and see who has the willpower to go and try what we teach and see if it'll make a difference! I'm super excited to see where they go :D Oh, and my tire popped on the way home, so that was an adventure walking home haha :D 

Thursday: 聖牛!!!! Holly cow! It was a cool day :D So we broke the record today (the record that we set ourselves.... haha) and we went to our secondary area of Mu Dan in the middle of Aboriginal territory and talked to all of them :D It was super fun, and we found a bunch of people that we'll hopefully be able to meet with! Then we went to a place called 出火 Chu Huo with a less active and had a fireside talk with him ;) Chu Huo is a place where natural gas leaks out of the earth, and they can't harvest it.... so somebody lit it of fire, and it's been burning ever since haha :D 

Friday: Planning session, and then we actually stayed in Heng Chun the entire day haha :D We had a dinner with a less active, and me and him decided to do a competition on who could read the most of the book of Mormon by June 30th, and whoever loses takes the other out to dinner haha ;) I'm super excited! 

Saturday: Today we went to Da Guang and Bai Sha to visit some less actives and our investigator out there :D We ran into some Jehovah Witnesses on the way and they were super nice haha :D Ya, and then we set up a plan with a Brother Liu to Come back to church so that he can be sealed to his family in the Temple. 

Sunday: A good sunday!! our family home evening we held at night.... well..... nobody came, but me and Elder Lindsey had our own fun Family home evening haha ;) yay :D We were going to go to Fong Gang about 2 hours away, but we didn't have the time :/ But next week, we're going to head out there! Super excited :D We have a recent convert who's mom lives out there, so we're going to visit here :D 

So ya, that was my week!! I'll send some pictures!!! Remember, that if we want to get a lot out of life and make it mean more, we must put a lot of effort into it! As the Scripture say, we reap what we sow..... something fun to think about ;) 

CTR, (義)

Elder Dawson (陶長老) 

Our Trip this morning :D 

 The Aquarium

City Welcome

Taiwan May 11.2014

Well hello!!!!

     Well hello!!!!!! I'm super glad I got to see my family this morning for mothers day!!!!!!!! You all look so good and so happy!!!!! I was really happy to see you all :D Thanks!!!! It was good to hear everyone's voices, and how their lives are going, and to catch up for a second there :D 

     and then..... missionary work continues haha!!! Onward and upward! This last week was simply fantastic!!!...... plus the fact that it is SUPER hot here. no joke, I sometimes think that I'm going to burn up into nothing haha. that just started this week.... that whole... humidity thing.... haha. joys ;) 

     Other than that, life here on the Island of Taiwan is going fantastic, especially because we actually found two people that are willing to meet with us!!!!! One is named Jack, and the other is a brother Yang. They are both super awesome, and super willing to meet with us!!!!! They both said they are super excited to read the book of Mormon, and to be able to make that decision for them self. It's super exciting that we found them, and that we're able to teach them this week :D I'm excited to continue on and teach them!!!! 

      This week me and Elder Lindsey also went up to Gao Xiong for a Zone Training meeting. In this meeting we talked about faith, and how action and belief equal faith. At the beginning, they sent two missionaries outside to find someone prepared to hear the gospel, and told them if they had enough faith, they would find someone. They went out, and found 3 people willing to hear the gospel!!! amazing!!! It was super good, and I learned quite a bit from our zone leaders here :D Then one of the zone leaders came down here on exchanges with me :D Because it takes so long to exchange, he came down with me Tuesday afternoon, and we arrived Tuesday night. then we had all day Wednesday together, and then Thursday morning we switched back, and Thursday afternoon got back to heng Chun :D It was definitely fun, and a learning experience :D 

     Next week we plan to perform in sacrament meeting, and also have our English class :D it's going to be a good time, and we are going to keep working our hardest!!! we are going to start focusing a lot on Tracting to find people to teach, because we feel the thing this area needs most is a family to strengthen it :D We're super excited to keep going for it!!!! 

     I forgot my journal..... so no day by day update, but that's ok :D I simply hope on this day for mothers, we can remember the "missionary army" that is our there, and how we, as the Stripling warriors, have learned from our moms, and therefore trust in god, and are not afraid. I love you tons mom!!!!!!!!! 

CTR, (義)

Elder Dawson (陶長老) 

Taiwan May 5, 2014

Well hello world, how are you today? 

     One of these days I'll stop asking painfully stupid rhetorical questions to things that don't answer, but until then hello everyone!!! How are you!?!?!?! Life in Taiwan here is crazy!!!!!! Super fun haha :D however, there is something that must be brought up...... 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I would sing to you, but I can't in an email. So the attachment is me and my companion singing happy birthday to you in English, Chinese, and Taiwanese :D love you tons!!!!! We ate cake for you here, and I hope you had an amazing birthday :D Sounds like you did! haha :D 

Hastening the work Eh???? Hmmm..... Well I have no idea how to do that in Utah haha.... soo.......... good luck!!!! I'll be praying for you :D 

So the Manglesons are coming to Taiwan!! Fun!!!!!!!! umm...... well Kending is definitely in our area, but I'll have to see if I can see them or not haha, I have no idea ;) It's all up to fate!!!...... and up to President Blickenstaff haha, so I'll call him and see :D Probably best just to leave it at the mission home.... but I can see haha :D 

So About skyping!!! I will be skyping home on Monday morning here at 9:00 So... Sunday night for you all at.... whatever time it will be there for you haha :D yay!!!!!!!! I will only have about 45 minutes at most to skype you all, so we will make the most of it!!!!!!! I'm super excited :D oh and with that, dad I'm wondering if maybe you can buy a microphone for the computer or something, because last time was incredibly hard to hear you all haha :D 

Hm.... wearing a hat..... I don't think they'll let me do that haha ;) sorry!!!!!! But I'll see what I can do about other things haha :D Oh, and tell colton, Andrew and Andrew that i say good luck!!!!!!! Gosh, I love them all so much haha :D 

So how am I doing???? I'm doing great!!!!!! To get to almost all lessons, we ride our bikes over mountains, or by the ocean, or over an hour away haha! Wow..... ya..... it's really tiring, but super worth it! I love it here :D It's just really hot..... but that is ok, because there are definitely worse things that could happen in life ;) 

So this week: 

Monday: Well for PDay, we cleaned again, and had our interviews with president over skype because we're really far away, and then met with some less actives :D There's a lot of less active work here, and it's been pretty hardcore working with them to come back :D 

Tuesday: Had a great 2 man DTM (District Training Meeting) then Contacted a lot 

Wednesday: We went up a mountain and back to the land of Man Zhou 滿州 where we met with some investigators that make Man Tou, a type of bread :D Then had english class! 

Thursday: I realized the importance more of vamping up Personal Study. I feel as if personal study is really the basis of all we do, I mean, as PMG says, we can't convert people over our own level of conversion. I feel like I've said this before, but I keep feeling like I realize more and more what It means haha 

Friday: Made cards for the English party we'll be having consisting of Making pizza and dying T-Shirts, and then me and Elder Lindsey taught people the gospel of Jesus Christ! Especially this one less active sister haha 

Saturday: It was a beautiful day!!! We planned an activity for next week to watch 17 Miracles, and then we met with our investigator family Liang family 梁家庭, and they fed us dinner, and we taught them about the Plan of Salvation. 

Sunday: It was starwars day. May the fourth be with you all. Anyways, we met with some people in Bai Sha 白砂 and Da Guang 大光, one of which was a philipeno lady who's English and Chinese are not very good. We gave her the pamphlet in Tagalog, and she read it, and said she believed in Joseph smith's story, because god called him to do something that only he could do, and there needed to be a restoration to separate from the old. It was really cool, and now she's one of the strongest investigators we have! It is proof that language barriers don't matter as long as the spirit can manifest the truth of what we're sharing. 

So in all, it was a very good week. I am blown away by how much I keep learning here on my mission! It is weird to think of how long I have been gone, but I am super excited to keep pushing forward, becoming better, and helping people as much as I can! It has been an amazing journey thus far to see how much you can help and change people with simple acts of love. Ghee :D Love you all!!! Family, see you in a week ;) 

CTR, (義)

Elder Dawson (陶長老) 

Taiwan April 27,2014 a Week of Tanning

Hello everyone!!!!!

     Ok, I think that title might have been a little misleading, but let it be known, even if you wear sunscreen, if you are in Heng Chun, you will get very tan, very fast. haha ;)

      So family, it looks like you all had a super fun time up there in Taipei, just having a grand old time!!!! haha :D Thanks for sending all the pictures!!!!!!! As for me, I am doing amazing here in Heng Chun, it's such a cool place!!!!!!! of course..... take out the fact that we have 1 investigator, and it's pretty good hahahahahaha :D 

媽媽，我跟你說，我黑掉了！！！ohno！！哈哈，恆春真的超級熱！並且，大部分的人都說，還沒到夏天！！完蛋了！So ya, I've basically just become very tan in a short amount of time here, because it's really hot, and we're out in the sun all day haha, because we have nobody to teach, so we ride out bikes around all day :D It's super good thought, and we're having a lot of fun!!!!!!!!!! 

     I got the package, thanks for sending it :D I've been eating a lot of dumplings and fried rice in Heng Chun.... oh and a lot of Seafood!! There's a member who owns a super nice seafood restaurant, and she let us eat there, and it was yummy :D I had some normal stuff, like chicken and Spring wraps, but then we also had some other not so normal stuff that was also good! such as Squid stuffed with carrots and cucumber, and Puffer fish Skin :D It was yummy haha, so I'm happy eating here :D I make myself a Papaya smoothie like everyday, and mango season is coming soon!!!!!!!! Needless to say, I'm pretty excited :D 

So sounds like a pretty legit conference at home about hastening the work! I do have to say, I agree with that haha :D It's super nice to be able to teach the gospel with an investigator, when their best friend is beside them testifying of what we say to be true, and adding their own testimony alongside it. Those lessons are some of the only lessons we get here in Heng Chun, because everybody on the street that we talk to is just a tourist, and most of the time they're from China or Malaysia haha. So I completely love hearing about all that!!! :D 

Ok, so my companion right now is Elder Lindsey, and may I just say, He's amazing!!!!!!! we get along super well, and We have fun while doing missionary work!!! The good part about it, is we're both willing to do hard and get as much done as possible. We started off by making sure that both of us are completely dedicated to the work and wanting to move forward, and it's just taken off!!! We're working as hard as I think we can be, and even though we're not seeing a lot of success, I can feel the blessings of the lord that has been given to both of us. Ah, Elder Lindsey is so awesome haha!!!!!! Ghee :D 

Ok, so I just felt like writing a lot this week, yay!!!! (hey is this email still being put on my blog? just wondering haha) ok here we go!!!: 

Monday: So It was the first day In my life I've ever clipped my fingernails. I was pretty proud of myself haha :D yay!!! Anyways, it was P-Day, and we basically just spent 4 hours cleaning the apartment, because all the elders before us are super messy!!!! so it was dirty haha. yep! 

Tuesday: We had an awesome district meeting!!! Consisting of Me and my lovely companion, and then he did some Facebook Missionary work!! Probably next move call I'll be a face book missionary.... not sure, but we'll see haha :D Then we helped a sister peel garlic for a service activity (my fingers still smell like it haha) Then ate at the seafood restaurant, then went home :D 

Wednesday: So today we went to a place called Man Zhou (滿州) and it was tiring haha. We go there every Wednesday, and to get there, we have to climb a mountain. and it's painful. but that's ok, it's all worth it haha :D They have Yummy Man Tou there (like... this sweet bread stuff) and then we met a member from Singapore that's here for military, and then had English class!!!! ya, it was fun :D 

Thursday: We went out to a secondary area called Che Cheng  (車城) and at ice with a less active, and then came home :D Met with some less actives... at ice cream with a less active...... ya...... all less active work :D 

Friday: I went hardcore on learning characters, and working hard to get them down haha! Then we had a good Weekly planning session, Then met with (You'll never guess) some less actives haha :D 

Saturday: Most. Tired. Day. Ever. So in the morning we went all the way to the bottom of the island (about an hour away, maybe a bit more...... ) to KenDing to find some less actives! it was one of the hottest days, and so it was fairly tiring haha, but thats ok :D However, then we got back to Heng Chun, and Went to Che Cheng, a half an hour the other direction, and it was pouring rain during that trip, and it was exhausting. Amen. haha 

Sunday: Went to church, and then went to part of a secondary area called Bai Sha, and then met with some less actives there :D Then we had a super fun Family Home evening making cards!! I'll send a picture :D It was fun haha!!! 

So ya, that was the week!!!!!!! I just want to say really quick something cool that I've learned here in Heng Chun So far. Sometimes, when we do the things the lord expects of us, we expect to be blessed in a certain way. For example, I'm here doing missionary work for the lord, and I hope that he will bless me with people to teach and baptize. However, one of the biggest things I feel I have learned, is that if you do what the Lord asks of you, he will bless you, but not always how you want to be blessed. I am super grateful for this time I have to be here, because it has helped me see tender mercies that the lord gives me from day to day life, the things that are taken for granted, things we may no longer realize as blessings. I'm grateful I have this time to be here and notice the little things, and work my hardest, and have an open mind to see how the Lord has, and will continue blessing me. I love being a missionary, and I love working hard and doing all I can!!! Huzzah!!!! 

CTR,(義)

Elder Dawson   陶長老

A members restaurant here :D

Different City Gates in Henchung  Taiwan

Beautiful Country

Our Arms Tanned

Taiwan April 20 2014

Dear all those within reading distance of this letter, 

     Sometimes I think to myself, where am I? Is this paradise?? and then I realize, oh yes it is, I'm in Heng Chun :D So.... how to describe being a missionary here.... well.... basically just think of what being a missionary in Hawaii would be like, and that's what it's like here ;) (pictures to come  haha) 

      Mom!!!!! you can Type In Chinese now!!!!! 很開心!! 恆春很棒！不要擔心，我會常常用sunblock, 不然我就會黑死 ;) 哈哈，開玩笑 :D 我新同伴是一個小可愛的林長老, 他很像 David Barlow.;)  媽媽，我很喜歡你寫中文！我看的懂大概百分之95。。。吧。可是，不要擔心，林長老的中文很厲害！所以，如果我看不懂，他可以幫助我 :D Oh ya!!! 他也有去StarTalk！

Hahaha, leave it to my mom to write me three messages, in Chinese and English :D So More about the Heng Chun area!!! Here there are about 20 active memebers, our area is the largest in the mission, and if we were to bike to the farthest away area, it would take 3 to 4 hours haha, yay :D My new companion is Elder Lindsey, and He's super cool!!!! He's a lot like David Barlow.... hahahaha, loving the piano, and personality wise haha :D I love doing missionary work with him!!!! It's so fun!! 

hmmmmm，媽媽，爸爸，你們在臺灣eh？不能偷看喔！哈哈，我很愛你們，希望你們也過得好 :D 

yay!!!! So it was a great week here, a lot of work, but a lot of blessings too :D ya....... I don't really have things to write about each day this week, but I'll send pictures!!!! yay :D Just know, that we live about a half an hour from the beach, the city i'm in has one main road, and it's absolutely tiny. And then people here already have seen missionaries a million times haha ;) yay ;) 

CTR, (義)

Elder Dawson (陶長老) 

Me and Elder Lindsey :D So the City used to be surrounded by a big wall, and so there's four main gates entering the city, and this is the south one haha :D 

The beach hahaha, no we did not go swimming baha