Hey
Mom!
We still kind of
celebrate the 4th here, ba! Actually not really. But Elder Oldham and I sang
the Star Spangled Banner for companionship study on Friday morning. As for
heat.....you don't really know nothing of heat until you have been on an
island. Yeah we may not get as high of a temperature as you there in Utah. But
we got something to compensate for it....humidity. I know joke sweat like a mad
man here. It's nuts! Even just packing my stuff in our apartment and I get
sweat dripping off my nose. Just about anything you do and you are not in
air-conditioned rooms and you start sweating a lot. Which me with having more
body hair, I sweat a lot. Like some days it feels like with my shirt as if I
went swimming in it. It especially doesn't help when I have to haul bags
around. For example:
I went on exchanges
twice last, one with Elder Kou my district leader, and one with Elder Hu my
zone leader. When I went with Elder Hu I left my area to go to Caotun and
Nantou with him. So I have my regular side bag for proselyting, and then I have
my backpack for the stuff I need on exchanges (just picture me getting a bag
together to go sleep over at a friends house). But so we didn't have time or
anything to stop by the apartment, and I wasn't using my bike (using Elder
Fronk's bike, which is not the safest thing seeing as his back brakes are
completely gone, the front ones almost gone and have to be pulled all the way
before they start kicking in, then as well as the gears and chain sometimes
slipping, basically what you would expect of a missionary's bike who is going
home this week because he has reached the end) and so had to ride with both my
bags on all over Caotun as well as to Nantou (which is like a 30 minute bike
ride). So it was pretty fun, but I got pretty sweaty.
I already knew Saturday
night that I was going to move. That is when the zone leaders get the fax and
call out to let everyone know who is moving. But so yeah I gave a testimony
yesterday, got lots of pictures, and had my last day in Zhanghua. So I moved up
to Taichung now outside the city to a place called Taiping. Don't really know
much about the area yet. Didn't ever thing I would go to Taichung. Kind of was
wanting to go back south. But I am fine with this as well. My new companion is
Elder Randall, who just got finished being trained by Elder Bennet (he was my
zone leader for 3 move calls in Gaoxiong, and is going home this week). So yeah
I get a new companion fresh out of training. It will be really great, really great
to push me, to help me improve, and do better.
As a forward note,
thanks for the talks and such that you have sent which I haven't gotten yet
because of snail mail.
Sounds like you have had
a lot of fun though over the past week with festivities and such. I hope Miko
is all better now. I do miss the puppies.
But so yeah, life keeps
rolling along. As about English leader, I was actually English leader last move
call as well. We have an English class we teach every week here in Taiwan that
is also a great way to introduce the gospel. But so as English leader I handle
our English unit here that includes 8 missionaries total. I set up where we go
and proselyte for English class each week. I handle and am in charge of our
English meeting we have one hour before English class (talking about what's
happening, numbers, goals, what to improve, training, and our English party). I
also decided who teaches which English classes.
I love you lots and am
grateful for all that you do! Glad you still love the Snoopy watch!
Elder Roo
