We got our Travel Plans this past week! Next Tuesday, we leave from Provo at around 8 in the morning for the Salt Lake Airport. From their we will fly to the LAX airport and have and wait for a little while before we catch our next flight over seas. We go from LAX to Tokyo, Japan (i hope i will be able to find my way to the connecting flight there....) Then a quick flight from Japan to Taiwan, Taipei. Everyone is super excited. Today is our preparation day to get everything ready for the week, so i spent my time doing laundry, shining my shoes and a little bit of pre-packing to be ready to leave next week. I feel like this week is going to fly by, and then next thing i know, i will be walking of the plane stepping into a foreign land where i'm sure i wont understand what anyone is saying. So cool! I know that once i get to Taiwan, the language is going to take off because i will be completely immersed in it. I kind of hope that i get a native companion in the first couple transfers to really help me learn the language too. We shall see... Much is going to happen these next few weeks.
This past week has been great. Lots of studying and teaching. Everyone is trying to squeeze out the last little bit of information they can get before we go. I think the highlight of last week had to be our teaching opportunity on Saturday at the TRC. Two Saturdays ago we had the opportunity to teach a non-member from Beijing. She came with her friend to the TRC because she has gone to a few church activities with her friend at BYU and thought it would be cool to come to listen to us at the TRC. We were able to teach her about the Book of Mormon and invited her to read it and pray about it to know if it was true. It was cool because we also taught her how to pray. She had never really done it before then. But she committed to do the things we invited her to do. The really cool part of the story happened this last Saturday at TRC. We found out about 5 minutes before we were about to start teaching that the same group from the week before had requested to meet with us again (usually it is just random who we teach). We were pretty shocked because we had thought we would probably never see the two girls again, but we were able to! When we met with them, we asked Wu Jie Mei if she had done what we had invited her to do, and she said that she had! She had prayed and she really liked it. She said that she felt very peaceful. So, we continued to teach her about the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ. At the end, we asked her if she would like to meet with missionaries regularly outside of the MTC and she said that she was interested and would think about it. The two told us that they would be back next week (this coming Saturday) and would like to meet with us again. So as of now we are planning on teaching her again. She has a lot of question's but is pretty interested and wants to know more about how this can help her in her life. It has been a really cool experience doing this here, since this is what i will be doing everyday once i get to Taiwan. I am learning a lot each day.
Anyways time is up, and this is the last email you will get from me here in the States! Next one will be from good ol' Taiwan! Hope everyone is doing well!
Love, Elder Bastian
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