Hey
Dad!
So for now the post
office is closed through Wednesday. So I don't know when I will get them
exactly. But that is alright. I have so much to do and so much to see and so
much to serve.
Yeah definitely that
time in New York was an interesting experience. There was a lot of fun, but
also a lot of down times. But things have progressed so much and are not at
that same spot anymore. That is way cool about sharing your testimony and
meeting Mitt Romney and his wife. And then also the guy who served here in
Taiwan. Yeah Jiayi is way beautiful.
Of course I am
striving to work hard. I try each day. I work hard with the language. I strive
as best I can in contacting to make people smile and laugh. Sometimes (a lesson
I learned from Elder Mudrow) I just laugh when a person I am contacting is
doing stupid things and not talking or giving the 不用 hand. It's just funny
to see how people act and react to that which around them. Something about
Elder Mudrow that I love so much is just his way of always having fun, just
laughing, smiling in any situation but also working hard.
So yeah I completely
forgot there was even the Super Bowl. Seriously being over here you just lost
track of everything. There is just this great world of being a missionary and
that is all you need to worry about. I also completely forgot that Olympics are
almost right now going to start. I don't even remember where they are at. Maybe
Russia? But sounds like New York was crazy. Definitely similar thing of when
people ask where I am from they don't even know Utah at all. I have even met
people who thought there were 52 or 53 states.
So this past week
Chinese New Year started. Probably the hardest and most annoying thing about
Chinese New Year is people saying when we ask to meet 過年後就好了. So lessons are
really hard to set up with people or like a lot of our solid progressing
investigators or recent converts leaving town and going home to their 老家. But it’s alright we
still see and meet lots of people. Like the other night on Saturday we
were tracting and ended up talking to a really nice guy and his son that were
out walking. He said right off the bat he had met our 其他的傳教士, the 哈比人 or hobbits. Elder
Mudrow and I were just laughing a lot because that was Elder Ng and Elder Chan
who are definitely shorter than Elder Mudrow and I. He also called Elder Mudrow
and I the football team. But yeah his English was not too bad and we feel like
they will definitely come to English on Wednesday.
Later that night about
5 minutes after we tracted a guy’s house that outside was really beautiful with
wood, green, and very Japanese feel to it. We started off introducing a bit and
then I told him how his house was really beautiful (we are at the door), and he
was like really?! He then started talking about how it creates a good
environment and feeling. I was like yeah a very peaceful feeling. He then
shouts out yeah, (pointing at me) I like this guy. Needless to say he went off
for like the next 10 minutes talking about the whole set up, the feelings and
moods it makes in a person, and even the interconnection between us and the
plants and the elements. Even eventually talking about the interconnection that
spans between me and you and mom and even talking about there is the 3rd
dimension, but also 4th, 5th dimension and how Jesus is in the 5th dimension
and that is how we can't see him. But yeah it was an interesting conversation.
So as for Chinese New
Year there are some cools but also some disappointments. I had some
expectations but so far some of them are let down. There really hasn't been any
cool things that have happened. Everything just closes down. We get to eat
meals at member’s homes (having up to 2 hours to eat with them). And they
literally stuff you so full of food. It makes you feel 不太徐福, almost sick to your
stomach. But last night’s dinner was really good with the District President's
family. They made pasta with broccoli, sauce, chicken, then fruit as well as
Costco muffins. They were so good. But there has definitely been lots of yummy
meals with lots of traditional food. Sorry I don't have pictures, but we are
only allowed to take pictures on P-days during our time of P-day. Definitely as
I hear more and more, our mission is one of the most strict and obedient in the
world. Not being prideful, but we hear and see about what missionaries are
doing in different missions (even our sister mission) that just makes us wonder
why they are doing that.
Love you so much!
Elder Roo
