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大家好!

(Hello Everyone!)

 

Today we decided to wake up a little earlier to do emails, so that we would have more time to do things during the day. The result: a beautiful sunrise! I hope the picture I attach shows up for you guys. When the weather is good here in Taiwan, it is so pretty!

The past week has gone pretty well for us here in Long Tan. Nothing too new, still finding and teaching everyday, and will for another year and a few months! The area where I am now, is a lot different from my first area in Zhong He. In my first area you could go anywhere you want and there would be people to talk, that we could share the gospel with, but Long Tan is a lot smaller and there is only one fairly small main road that has people out on it during the day, so my companion and I recently have been going to a little of different places to knock doors and invite people to come and learn more about Christ. It's been fun! You run into a lot of different situations and types of people. This past week we went to an area we have never been to before to go tracting. We got there and started to knock doors down one alley we had planned to go on and about the 3rd door down we ran into this super nice high school student. She has been to a church before a few times with her other friends and loves it. Her English was also pretty good, as she wants to do the foreign exchange program and go to America. When we found out these things, we quickly invited her to our English Class and invited her to learn more about church and Christ. She seemed excited! It was cool to see someone so willing to learn more!

One thing that is pretty interesting here in Taiwan, is that when you go house to house to share the gospel with others, you often run into one problem.... Their doorbells are broken! This is pretty common here, and I don't know why. So we usually have to knock pretty hard on the little gates that are out front and then call into there house, "Hello! Is anyone home?" Then, if they are home, about 10 seconds later someone will start to shuffle to and out the door to meet us. It's pretty fun, a lot different that I imagine it would be in America. We have also run into a lot of dogs lately that just bark their heads off if we go near their house. These things all add up to some pretty interesting and memorable experiences!

This past week I was able to go on exchanges again with Elder Mattson who lives in the neighboring town. We had a good time working together at his place and even had a member take us out to dinner at Mcdonalds! The Mcdonalds here are like our resturaunts in America, some even have 4 floors to them. It's just great.

Well I hope that everyone is doing well back at home! This about wraps it up for me here! Have a great week!

Love,

Elder Bastian