Mountain Lookout

Hello Everybody!

 

Its been another pretty good week here in Long Tan! Sister Guan is continuing to prepare for her baptism this next Saturday. We are all very excited! It has been so cool to be able to see the changes that the gospel has made to her life. You can really see a new light in here eyes. I think one of the coolest things since we have met her, was that after we gave her a Book of Mormon and she started reading it, she began to call us and give us updates saying that she read today and how it was going. She called us... pretty cool huh?! 

This past week Elder Bennion and I have had a lot of fun. I think as we have worked hard and come home to the warm apartment, wiped at the end of the day, that's when we have really had the most fun because we know that we have done our best helping others come unto Christ.

On Preperation Day last Monday, we decided that we wanted to get outside and bike somewhere cool for the day. We found a cool mountain lookout spot on the map that we had in our apartment and decided to go there. Since I have been here for a little while I thought I knew the area pretty well and knew where the mountain was. We biked out to the edge of town and started to head up the mountains that line the little city. It was such a windy and steep road! We kept climbing and climbing looking for the signs that had the lookout. We couldn't find it... so we finally decided to stop at the top and go down this little road where we could get a good view and take some pictures. We ended up finding this abandoned leather sofa chair in the middle of this field so we decided to get some cool pictures sitting in it. I'll attach them. It was a pretty cool place up at the top of that mountain. Taiwan is super pretty! Elder Bennion and I plan to go hiking so I'll get some pictures up of that next week.

This week we had a cool experience of meeting an 80 year old kung fu master at the park. He was just awesome! He said that he has been teaching kung fu for over 30 years and invited us to stop by his place some time. On Friday, we went to visit him. He was pretty funny. He taught us a couple punch blocking moves and we were able to teach him a little bit about prayer and Jesus Christ. Good trade, huh? We are going to try and keep visiting him. I hope all goes well, and that over time he will be able to accept the gospel into his life.

Well, my time this week is about up. The church has changed some of the mission rules that allows us to email individually to friends so I have spent a little more time doing separate emails today, which has eaten up some of my time for the main email, but I hope that everyone has a great week and that school, work, or whatever life is bringing you at this time all goes well!

Love ya!

Elder Bastian