Hey Dad!
I really like what you said about mindfulness.
It's very true and definitely helps in getting rid of a pessimistic outlook on
life. I will have to try it and work at it.
Some of the cartoons are pretty funny. Like in
one your latest letters that had like two pages of cartoons with it Elder
Williams thought they were pretty funny. I liked them too, like the one about I
don't want to be District Leader anymore. You can always also send more Far
Side comics or Dilbert. Those are pretty funny as well.
I think you spoil me too much with how much I
get and receive from you and Mom. Don't get me wrong though I love it all. And
am super grateful.
Crazy the Courtney Wells came home a little
early. She was in the MTC at the same time I was. I saw her around a couple
times. Also super crazy weird that she came home only 85 lbs. Especially living
in Japan (which compared to Taiwan is far more advanced and 1st world) and
especially in Tokyo. She must have gotten some virus or something, or really
came to a point of not liking the food. Hope she does well and recovers
quickly.
Yeah Ryan said he was going around Taiwan with
Nate Erikson and then for a little bit by himself. I would say the things about
when to come to Taiwan that are up in the air is if you wait too late into
summer or August mangos go out of season and seriously you do not want to miss
the chance to eat the fruit or mangos here. The only other big determining factor
is weather which actually you and mom keep emailing about it being rainy over
here. It actually has been an odd summer with not as much rain or Typhoons as
normal. It finally rained last Saturday and the time before that was probably a
couple weeks. So that is my 2 cents on Taiwan. Japan I have no idea on. That is
your area. But going to Florida end of June and beginning of July sounds really
fun. Sounds like a plan.
Thanks for praying for me and for our
investigators. Investigator A is one interesting character. I love him but yeah
he still is interesting. He is like 50, not married. But every single invite we
have given him he is immediately willing to do it. We sat down with him
yesterday to teach about Tithing, Fast Offering, Priesthood, and Temples. We
had the 2nd counselor in the bishopric sit with us and really helped in just
asking some direct questions as well as reviewing about restoration and
priesthood. When we asked if he believes Joseph Smith is a prophet, he said he
is, I mean the Book of Mormon is true, he translated it, so he must be a
prophet. So we strongly encouraged him to keep praying asking Heavenly Father
about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon as well as Priesthood. But yeah he
has read to 2 Nephi now and he is looking really good to reach his goal of September
13.
Brother L is also doing really good. The
members have been really good of welcoming him. He has already come to church 3
times. And it turned out really good last Thursday when we went on splits with
the EQ, Elder Williams went with Brother X (the 2nd counselor in the bishopric)
to visit Brother L, and found out that he wasn't exactly praying because he
didn't quite know how to pray (this came about mainly because he speaks
Taiwanese a lot better than Chinese, he can still understand Chinese, but he has
an interesting accent and we are foreigners so we have an accent as well, so
when we have met with him ourselves it is a lot harder to get points across, so
we for sure need a member with us). So they helped to clear that up and made
things right. So Brother L is doing really well as well. We still have a little
more of commandments to share with him. But he is already keeping the WoW which
for a lot of Taiwanese is hard. But he is keeping it really good.
That's about all that there is for now. I love
you lots and miss you tons. If you want to know more of my current stance you
can ask Allisa, since she knows a little more right now. Let me know if there
is anything I can do!
Elder Roo
Hey Mom!
Sounds like church was really good. We had it
really good with church yesterday. They definitely implement me a lot for
playing piano. In Gospel Principles class (which we have a really strong and
good class for our investigators) I play for an opening hymn and they have
started doing a hymn sung by missionaries that are specific for the topic that
day that I play the piano as well for. Then I play in priesthood as well. I
even this last week Elder Williams and I were talking and he asked me about
music and wanting to know more to play the piano. So I taught him some.
But as well as yesterday was 5th Sunday, and 3rd
hour lesson was on missionary work. So Brother X helped in heading it up but
gave time over for us missionaries to to do some training. Then right at the
end of church a young man in the ward opened up his mission call (so even our
investigators got to see it and understand more about missionary work). He is
called to serve in Los Angeles Chinese speaking.
Aw man, you know me. Yeah the V-neck sweaters
would be a lot better and i would like a lot better. As for treats and snacks I
will like just about anything you would send. Just think outside the box of
stuff that Taiwan does not have that is reminds me of home and is really good.
Pretty funny about Kev's bed being pink. You
might just have to send him a Hello Kitty pillow. It would be perfect. Also
good luck with the oral surgery. Doesn't sound too fun.
Love you lots, good luck with school this week,
miss you and think of you always!
Elder Roo
