YMerry Christmas and Mery Deathmas

Yeah i skyped, it was dope. my little siblings (male) their voice shave dropped an octive or two. My older bro now has a super 帥 beard, my parents look pretty much the same, and my sisters are crazy bomb. it was such a good time to see them again!!! Christmas was awesome we ended up havng no one at church. but right after, our awesome family showed up hoping to make the last hour their kids had been sick and had to go to the doctor. But then i got to open my christmas present, i got some freaking awesome socks! and gummi worms! 好吃!!! 

I don't really know what happened this week. We went up to taipei, to have the mission christmas party! so all of the missionaries were together! i got to see my old comps, and got to eat delicious food! It was so fun! we were in this crazy nice place called the "American Club" They served us a bunch of mini cheese cakes and crembulett in a cup. buffet style. they had all the american food, mashed potatoes, ribs, chicken, tots, everything!

We also had a great time, Elder Miner was packing up for the week, getting ready to go home! because he is dying!!! He waws even taking the suitcases up for the christmas party! But he did a great job not getting distracted. He went hard all the way to the end. He goes up to taipei in a few hours, and then tomorrow is home. so therefore it is death-mas. It has been such an awesome chance to serve with him, learn from him, and work with him! He is a good man, And has served honorably. He went until the end, never looking back, always focused on improvement. And he is one of the most relaxed and hard working elders i know.

I will be with the zone leaders in a tri-pan, for the next couple days until they send the new guy.

Also we had an awesome chance, our ward came down to our area and helped us carol to LA's and investigators, and some members, just to keeping lifting the spirits! It was so fun to work with the ward a little bit. And we got special permission to stay out a little late with them, and they were super excited about us staying out late just to carol with them. I think it really changed some hearts to see so many people coming down and showing their love for them. I think they will have a little more fire to be active or to join the ward, it really helped build a lot of relations!

Anyway i Love you guys a whole lot, I'm outa here!

How the mighty fall

we had our cookie! our chistmas dinner with the ward, and we are angels

On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 9:36 AM, Jason Ray Conover <jason.conover@myldsmail.net>wrote:

Many of you should know, that my companion will soon die. This week was a lot of preparation for such things. We had to go up to 台北 this week so that he could have his exit interview. Well he failed and will be going home in about one week! HAHA😂😂😂 I spent the day on exchanges with the 木柵 area. We had a tripan for the day. And then we stayed the night with the central zone leaders. We went from 鳳林 to central 台北... there is a big difference there. But in the morning we played frisbee, i ended up seeing Elder Jensen there! super fun! i played frisbee in a sweat suit basically, it was a little gross after we came home. oops.

But aside from that this week was pretty awesome down in our area. We visited some of our investigators that have a lot of potential but are just not progressing, and they have just been hitting the perfect trials i guess. because they have all been having their desire for the gospel grow. And we can just feel the difference as we teach them. 

Me and Elder Miner have been really trying to commit ourselves to improve and to do everything we can to help this area. And i have seen so much change, and improvement not only in myself, but also in our area. investigators seem to just be getting it. And it feels amazing! We still are having troubles getting any of them to church, because they are all crazy poor and have to work or they just don't want to drive 40 minutes and stay for 3 hours and drive another 40 minutes home when they have little kids. However the best and my favorite part of our area is that there are families!!!!! When we first got down here we only had families to teach since then we've grown to potential families and stuff like that, but people have like 3 and 4 and even 6 kids and i love to see families again! a lot of taiwan doesn't like to have a lot of kids. they just think its too expensive. I love playing with kids man! it is literally so fun!

Also we decided that we wanted cookie, but our toaster broke so we made the dough and put it in a rice cooker. guess how steamed cookie turned out.... actually freaking delicious! a little douoghy in some parts but super good!

We had a super bomb ward christmas party! Our ward was making this huge deal about it, and they didn't tell us much about it or anything but when we got there we were blown away, they had a bunch of non-members there for us to meet, and crazy decorations, and they had us do a skit we previously prepared, and then they did a nativity! and that was super impressive!!! literally blew me away!

Love you guys! 保持你的罹癌

Elder Conover is out!

Member Madness

I would like to let you all know that this week was very special time in my life. i hit a very big milestone. I ATE MY FIRST BIGMAC! So just so you guys know, i ate it so hard. 

In other news of the week, we went down with the beutlers, to visit our good friend 朝弟兄 and taught him the last temple prep lesson, the only thing left is for him to start being more active. Witch is incredibly far when you literally live on the top of the mountain that he takes people flying off of. (he owns and runs a paragliding business) He is also 60 somethings years old, and his wife has 4 or 5 major body problems, some of which effect her back. But he is awesome! then we had the chance to meet with 林美綺 and she started progressing again!! She is so cool! she bears her testimony everytime we visit her, she knows that reading and praying help and effect her life, and makes a point of telling us about every miracle she sees from it! 

We had a chance this week, as challenged by the mission president, to try on friday to visit 5 members, and talk to them about doing their own work. Well there is a slight problem, Our main and closest active member who lives 20 minutes across the valley area away from everyone else, was not home. So we decided we would start from the bottom of our area, and visit every single person on our list. luckily our house is almost exactly in the middle of our area, so we satrted biking down, and it started out really great the 5th person we visited actually was there, hadn't moved, and still was willing to talk. He has absolute no desire to be active at church though. So we kept biking down and got about 40 minutes from home soouth, before we realize we had set up a member that had just barely moved down to our area in the last few days but they live opposite side. And we had to bike up to the member that does the flying thing. So we head back, 20 minutes back and we were at the foot of the mountain with about another hour and a half before our set-up. We biked the mountain in probably 20 minutes, or less. And luckily the weather had gone from sunny to sprinkling rain for 2 reasons it was cooler, and the member wasn't able to fly so he was home. Then after that we biked down the mountain, raining a little harder now. And set off about another hour up and we arrived at the members house, utterly soaked, even with our raincoats. And the wind was chilly and consistant, but they were cool, and ended up buying us dinner so it was all worth it:) then we biked back vistiing members alon the way, and made it home in about hour and 10 minutes, only one other member was home or hadnn't moved. so not a bad day 4 members!!! and the next morning we got to the 5th one who lives here but works in 台東. so good to meet them, has a chance for 2 melch. priesthood holders there, which would be enough to start our branch. her husband and 20 yr old son aren't members.

Also this week was full of miracles of people starting to progress, and seeing investigators really change, as well as just everyay life miracles. The last thing you need to know is that aboriginals are dope cuz they make sick knives, for our pday we went up a canyon with some members stopped buy a knife shop(obviously i got some) and then had a dope hike!

Love you guys a whole freaking lot, don't let anything stop you from going!

孔長老 out!

Here is a goat at the foot of the mountain and us on the way up.

On the rebound

Well there is a few types of rebounds in life. You have the obvious one basketball, the shooter misses and the others all try to get control of it, you have an object hitting a barrier and rebounding in another direction, you have the "just been dumped" rebound, you've got the "coming out of it" rebound. This week was truly amazing for a few reasons. We have this super cool man named Gao Wei Bo, he is 27, very humble, he has experienced a lot of life already, loves is daughter a whole lot! and is looking for a restart, a clean slate he feels like he has found it. And he has it is called baptism. The gospel allows him peace of mind, sense of belonging, and relief. The problem was for about 3-4 weeks he disappeared of to work, and was hard to get in contact with. when we finally visited him he was busy but he was very sorry about everything and as we left he looks us in the face and says "i promise you i will get baptized." We visited him again recently and had a very powerful lesson with him. He is a truly great man, during that lesson he says something along the lines of "you can't travel the gospel path alone, i will let you guys meet my friends so we can learn together." 

This week also had another rebound we had 2 days where we decided we just wanted to bik like crazy, so we rolled up north abouot 45 minutes biking to 壽豐 where we spent our day trying to visit people and get to know the roads up there. the second time we went back we had an investigator up there, he had met with missionaries before about 6 years ago. Then he stopped meeting with them because he had some problems, none of which involve the doctrine. Then a week or two ago he self-contacted us and came to church. He is now a progressing investigator. He lives out past 壽豐 a little way. in the middle of a field. we were biking along and were looking for his house on a little road that had about 15 houses before the road took a slight left turn and continued through fields for a long while. we got to the end of the houses but we were one number short of his address we were confused until we called him. So we biked out into the fields a little way. 

Then that night we forgot that we had meant to visit our 王 family. which live in the other direction than 壽豐 which is about an hours bike to their house. realizing we would be late if we ate dinner we hauled our booties back down south, until we rolled into 鳳林 our home town and were starving and we also knew that it was fast sunday the next day. so we ran into a bakery and bought the cheapest and most filling bread we could and pounded that. We met with the 王 family and read the Book of Mormon with them. That book changes people, it changes lives. the difference between our progressing and unlearning investigators is if they read. literally. If you aren't reading it now. read it. And if you've never read it all the way through read it.

We also had the cahnce for Pday to come up to 花蓮 and shop a little bit, Elder Miner was getting stuff for his mom, and I've been looking for a cloe place to buy some aboriginal knives. They are ridiculously dope. we ended up not getting the knoves way to expensive in that shop. But if you want some dope knives next week i will have pics and you can ask about them through email. And we got some other aboriginal stuff that is super sick! this lady sold backpacks, shoes, surf boards, painting, sow art, all this dope stuff.

Love you guys!!! 愛你們 孔杰叡長老 is outa here!

The ocean is gorgeous, there is a phoenix for you, and that is a cool totem pole thing,

Traveling abroad

We had a crazy week man!!!! for starters there was a huge church held run for anyone who wanted to come, and there was planned to be upwards of 200 people there. it was held in taidong, which is farther south than hualian but in the same stake so we were asked by the stake president to have all of us go down there. We ended up having an awesome member heading down to take pics for it! she offered to drive us down (the excitingpart is she has given us rides before, she is super legit! her husband is a super legit stunt man and a very good rally racer, and she is also very good at the rallies. So she took us and the zoneleaders down to taidong, about a 3hr drive). IT WAS CRAZY FUN!!!! chen yi han just BTW is her name.

When we got down there we stayed, by special request of the zoneleaders, with the zoneleaders of taidong. which just so happens to be elder facer. (my trainer) it was super fun to see him again! and as we were preparing for bed us Hualian missinaries attacked the taidong missionaries. we won. though elder facer did put up a really good fight!😂 Then we went to the activity and did the mission thang, talked to people, saw members, met new people to give to taidong as new investigators.

This week we had the bishop help us teach a lesson to the 王 wang family, they are really close to being ready for baptism, just really hard to get people to church!!! The bishop is a super awesome man!!! We also visited one of our investigators 偉柏 wei bo, he has been gone for the last 3 weeks, and has been answering. we went over and he was there! He explained he had been doing very dangerous work lately, and has been over in gaoxiong. and has been reading and praying to keep peace because he has been doing such dangerous work. super cool!!!

Then for our PDAY! yesterday bishop invited us sunday night to come help him catch a chicken. so we decided why not! we rolled over to his, and help him catch 2 large chickens, one rooster and one chicken. that was super fun!!! then we went back to his house and helped him kill the chicken, we wanted it to drain out well so we cut it and put it in a traffic cone to drain., then we soaked it in hot water and plucked it, and then we help gut and clean it. i found out somethings look super cool! the gizzard actually looks like the arkenstone from the hobbit a little bit. But then we made a delicious soup of it, and all ate it together. super duper fun! i have some pictures im not going to send of it buill send a feww:)

last thing is as i was reading in 2corinthians, chapter 4 verse 13 made me really happy. and explained what it means to believe. We are all suppose to represent christ and our belief, to be examples to the people, and to change the world. Well if you really believe this church, SPEAK. Just as Paul says they believed and spake so he believes and speaks. If we believe we need to speak.

Love you all tons. 

The Reset

This week was crazy with transfers!! some super crazy stuff went down!!!!! prety much our whole zone got reset. we had a companionship mid-training get whitewashed into a starting a new area. An area closed down here, new zoneleader, one of the sisters is training, the other switched. It was insane! Luckily we were untouched in good old 鳳林!! it was super fun to see everyone get changed around we didn't see anyone until sundayof course. 

This week was super fun! because Elder Miner in his near 2 years in taiwan has never been to a 烤肉吃到飽 a all you can eat barbeque(self BBQ'd) which is pretty much unbelievable seeing that it is super delicious so we fixed that problem. For our P-day we came up here to 花蓮 hualian and invited everyone to come. All of the elders in the zone came but none of the sisters; the sisters said "no money, sorry" and the elders said "no money but worth it!" it was crazy fun!! Did i mention i rode a super old bike, with the front tire flat, while i pulled Elder Miner into town on his ripstick... I love this area. After that we went with Elders Clegg and Balemforth(i think thats how you spell it) to the beach, which also had a skate park, we played tag for about 10-15 minutes before we were all tired and winded from sprinting and said alright thats enough running after pounding a few pounds of meet each. 

In terms of missionary stuff I love our bishop!!!!! We had him help us teach a lesson to our best family the wang 王 family. They are progressing well, but not quite ready they are very busy helping their daughter get ready for tests. Anyway he helped us teach the lesson, and brought his whole family, 4 kids and wife, and that helped a lot the kids all played together which allowed both sets of parents to all be there. Almost forgot the bishop and his wife are both RM's and have a great missionary fire. That whole lesson was amazing! It really helped that family.

The next day bishop asked us to come back and keep helping him create his toll shed thing. we have been doing service for him the past couple weeks once a week about 3 hours, we have been digging and evening out an area about 8ftx5ft so he can put down cement there. And then we go down to the river nearby, and jump own and fill buckets with gravel and sand, and throw them up to the other and then we mix the cement and throw on there. we are pretty whipped every time but it feels so good! We are about 3/4 of the way done so exciting!!!! 

Then we decided this week to bike up to the 豐田，壽豐Fengtian, Shoufeng area, about 45 minutes north, and when we got there we ran into a pretty cool guy with 2 kids that are christian he had a lot of questions. we had to get going to go visit an LA in the area but reset with him. The LA ended up being super cool he had actually been baptized while he was in college studying up in 淡水 Danshui, (the north coast right next to my old area) and when he moved back down here he just never had gone to church. When we went back that saturday to meet with the inv. we found ou"t that he was actually the LA's 同學 class mate!!! We asked the LA about it and he said hey i do know him if he goes up to church i'll go and keep him company! we didn't even need to ask him!!!! so cool!! 

I love this gospel, I love the changes it brings in lives, as a missionary its easy to see when people really start to feel the message what it does. Me and Elder Miner were talking about that a little bit, and we came to the problem that a lot of us have if raised in the church. We all learn the dance moves(the church) but not all of us hear the music(feel it) I am glad i was able to hear the music, and glad that i hear it evermore clearly as i continue to learn. But there for sure was a time when i didn't hear the music, and it was pretty good while. I invite you all to just try to hear the music! please give it a sincere effort, i promise even i you can hear it now, you can always hear it clearer. I know many of you won't care or read this part, but i encourage anyone who is willing no matter how good or bad your life is, the Church is able to improve it, and is able to make you happier than you ever thought you could.

Love you all, Elder Conover. feel free to send me personal emails.

Beach zone meeting

Night rides

DIY BBQ

So Birthdays and Free Stuff

So this week has been so much fun!!!! to start happy birthday to my dope companion! He is officially old, and close to death. hahaha! so we made cookies to celebrate and also to give our awesome investigators. however taiwan people don't like overly sweet things, so hopefully the "american" sweet wasn't too much, i think they loved them!! We have also expanded our diet a little now we make our selves curry rice too, not just rice with meat floss. we are pretty much five star chefs.

When it came around to birthday day, we rolled up to a place called 西林 xilin, and we met with some  more new investigator families! 2 new families!! and then a member drove down from 花蓮 just to give Elder Miner a gift. He got a dope new tie, and later his mom sent him some of the dopest socks ever, they are pretty legit. 

we also had fun with some fake mustaches she sent us. but this week we have been getting a lot of free stuff. I love this area 鳳林 is literally so fun!! we pull up to little stores to buy food and then they just decide to give us free stuff. it is so fun, our record is in the same store 3 different people qing'd us stuff. qing means to get free stuff pretty much, and a lot of times we visit people they just give us food! HOWEVER the best thing by far this week, we book it home from about 25-30 minutes away from home, and we pull up to our house area and our Bishop and his whole family are waiting there. In their new car, and they pull out a cake box and give it to Elder Miner. They are the best! When we got upstairs and opened it; it was even better it was a dang good looking cake, and even better tasting. Elder Miner and I literally felt super fat after eating it. so good!!

And we have been biking just as much as ever except our last 2 P-days have been to the same place about 45 minutes bike ride down past 光復, where we go up and follow a river up as far as we can, this time we brought the whole zone, including the senior couple, which whipped half of the elders, all the sisters, and our 26 year old member. They are so funny!!! But they all drove we met them down there on bikes, we also had time where i could start teaching Elder Miner how to do some flips, its been a fun time lately!!

We have seen so many miracles, as we continue to pour everything we have into this area the Lord continually blesses us with much success and people to teach, most of whom are families!! if there is one big blessing to us in 鳳林 it is the fact that there are families to teach here!!! I love this area so much!!!!!

I want you all to know how much i have grown to love a few things on my mission, the Book of Mormon is of the best things ever!! it truly does change lives, and matter how much you have studied it i promise you, you will still learn from it. I love Joseph Smith, he is an incredible man, not perfect but he is amazing!! he changed so much of this world, faced so much trials and pain, and yet was probably the most humble man in this generation! I know they are true, and are of God, I know it and will declare it.

love Elder Conover cuz i love you guys!!!

Mini bananas

Making chocolate chip cookies 

One giant cookie

I mustache you a question. 

Puppy love

Giant water balloon

Waterfall

Party Down South

This week has been straight riot in 鳳林 we have been doing a lot lately! So this week we just stayed up at the Zone Leader's and emailed on monday like i said, but then we had a dope RC, yangkai, take us up this sweet hike called 水原地 where the water is sooooooo freaking gorgeous literally it is this large river bed covered in rocks and just water that is cleaer than a window after windex. and it was a little cold and we had no clothes to stay over so we stole some B-ball shorts, and went shoeless. it was a little slippery and sometimes had to walk through so shallow water but did some super fun stuff!!!! by the time we were coming home everyone had slipped and fell in some of the water. very refreshing. such a freaking party!! 

Then this week was full of miracles we had zone meeting so we came back up for that! and it was fun ate super delicious caramel covered sweet potato from a vietnamese place. and then headed home and stopped by our Bishop's house to say happy birthday to his son! Gave him some pocky he was happy! After that us and the Bishop discussed how the mission is full of crazy stories and we all told stories we had, He is also an RM, then we went to his neighbor, 林榮庶 and we had a great lesson about prayer!! it was so cool to see him showing his interest. i am impressed by the people of 鳳林, many of them already know how serious prayer is and are actually a little scared to pray. It is amazing to see people when they find the true meaning of things. 

But the dopest miracle of the week, we went up to 西林 and planned to spend the day up there, and we had a pretty good goal for what we wanted, the first person we talk to is a large family, 5 kids, 3 siblings (atleast) and we had a lesson and set-up with them, 2nd person we talk to family, 2 older sons, and a husband, lesson set-up, roll down the street 3rd person we talk to a dope and very humble man. lesson set-up. Elder Miner and i were just loving it up there. I LOVE STARTING鳳林.

Another Miracle, a little while ago we had set-up to visit this super humble guy named 高偉柏, but when we went to his house he wasn't there. We were going around one night in the area, and decided to visit, we had a great lesson on the restoration and he asked us how could restart his life, last night we taught the POS until the the atonement and just hammered the atonement and baptism being ble to give that blessing. We read from 2nephi 9 and alma 7 with him. He is now on date.

Lastly we had pres. interviews this week, so we had the AP's and President down here. That night the Ap's came on exchanges with us. They were like, "we were in the area, but mostly we just want to say we served here before we die." haha it was so fun me and Elder Aiono went around that night and saw many miracles. We set up a family, and a super nice college student. I am so grateful for the chance to be here.

I was reading 2nephi 26:13 and 27:23, and something i really liked is the simplicity is that the belief and faith in God, brings about miracles. For god is a God of miracles, and it doesn't matter how long you've known him or what you have done, he will always show himself unto you through miracles. Believe that you will recieve and it will come. Then just work and watch.

Love you guys! 

Nailed it!!!!

Elder Miner and I have spent a good deal in thought this week as to why the heck we are so tired literally everyday. I told a few of you this before i left, but my goal for my mission was to come home every night exhausted, tired, and barely make it through night prayers. i would like to report we do that. In addition to that goal the good Presdient Jergensen challenged me to make sure i was tired for the right reasons, we are doing that. 

We opened this area, and have put a lot of sweat, thought, work, love, and time into improving it. As we have done this we have seen many miracles, and much of the Lord's help in covering our weakneses. Elder Miner and I have a great time, shooting eachother with finger guns, making fun jokes, seeing drunk people in the back of trucks and dancing with them as we bike, seeing taiwanese marachi bands drive down the highway in the back of a truck while playing. Let me just leave it at 鳳林is the best area to ever exist!! SO NAILEDIT!

The next part for the title is what we saw two days ago, as we were down in 光復finding, we were biking down one of the main roads, we see a moped start to drive away, not a very clean take off, and not a very clean drive. One guy driving, and a lady on the back. All of the sudden we see the lady try to step off as it is moving, probably about 8-12 miles per hour... While still holding the back of the moped.... Her head made a nice thump as it hit the asphault. We pulled off to see what the heck, she was straight KO'ed for about a minute. two other ladies came running up, her friend got off the moped walks over and sits her up still KO'ed and starts hitting her back, and was like "你還OK，沒有關係" you are ok, no problem.(translation) Then the cops showed up and the guy obviously drunk walks to the moped and drives away leaving his still KO'ed friend on the ground. After a few minutes she utterly failed the line test, she coouldn,t even stand whithout falling around, partially drunk partially is she smashed her head. #wordofwisdom #Godknowswhatheisdoing Elder Miner and I asked them if it happens often, they said it was he profession...好，隨便你。 ok all you. We developed a new love for WOW.

However this week has been amazing!! 王家庭 is the best!! Thier children are utterly adorable. we were finishing up a visit with them; and their 4 year old daughter walks up and looks at Elder Miner with a very mischievious smile, Elder Miner bends down and asked what, she jumped on him and gave him a hug, as I was saying goodbye to the 5 year old son; she ran up behind me and jump on my back to give me a hug. They are so freaking cute!!!!! Everytime they see us they shout 哥哥來了 (big bro came) and they all run to the door! Their whole fmily makes us so happy!

I would like to talk to everyone right now about friendships, this is something i didn't even know i believed until junior or senior year, but it is something i have a strong testimony of. Friendship. They are a sacred thing, Jesus in Jonh 15:15(約翰） makes this very clear. Your choice in who you spend time with really will change your lives. I have seen it strengthen people, and destroy them, i have seen it build love, or even destroy testimony. I have felt it both hurt and repair. Friends are a sacred thing. This is why my friends are like my family anf family like freinds. I invite you all to look at who you spend time with and really think is it helping you be you.

Love you all!!!! 孔長老 Elder Conover.

October 25

The strangest of problems

This has been a super fun week!!! we have ran into problems that i didn't think would ever be a problem, actually i shouldn't even call them problems, they are more of possible delays to our great investigators that we have met down here in feng lin.

The most possible one is the fact that it will be hard to teach our best family, because they are too busy setting up their friends and family to meet us, and to share with them. This family is literally the bomb! they have set up 2 or 3 times this week alone(coming week) for them to take us to friends and family to share this message with them because they love it so much. (they came to church once so far, and have shared POS and Restoration with them. The other super cool thing about them is they said "we have been baptized before, but you're telling us they had no authority so that doesn't count can we be baptized again?" after we invited them that was their reply. they are perfect.

We have had a blast this week for P-day we decided we have no money but we don't know what to do down here lets just bike up to ji an. (1 1/2 hr wind against us) and then we will go on the hike with (turned out to be biking straight up the mountain) and then we can just come home (1 1/2 raining this time) then we can just go out to wan rong tonight for finding (15 minutes out 15 back still raining) we woke up this morning and didn't want to at all:) but we get to email today (tuesday) because our area is awesome and we have to come up 5 hours early to District Meeting cuz its a 40 minute train ride.

The other problem we have ran into is the fact that being at the church takes away a lot of time, we have to take the 8:15 train to get to activities that occur around 1 pm, its awesome! but we get plenty of time to sit! so now we are having to schedule all set-ups on other days. Ironically feng lin is pure perfection wrapped up in joy and long bike rides to anywhere:) we were out last night and decided to re-visit a family we met a week or so back, and got to meet the husband, they are really nice, and i think they can become really good members, i cant wait to get them moving. but them we rann off back into wan rong a little ways, and decided we would knock that night, we turned off to the rigth side after seeing someone outside their house and began a conversation. she has 3 kids and is extremely willing to meet, and showed a lot of interest. and then kept going and went over near a catholic chapel and stopped at the first house, and they have 3 kids, over 18, all have a lot of faith and me and Elder Miner as we sat in their house talking could feel their potential. if we can baptize that family we will have half of the amount of melch. priesthood holders we need to start the branch down here in fenglin. We have a lot of hope for this area the stake wants the branch started by the end of the year. and we have a strong hope a desire to do that.

The Lord does his own work, when he wants it done it happens, i have seen his hand, and felt his power! he truly is preapring our paths, we can't always see the end but he knows where he wants us to go. "I am the gardener here" and sometimes you must be pruned clipped, wind blown, weeded around, pushed, tied, and sometimes broken; but it is all for your benefit.

LOVE YOU ALL, PEACE!

Beautiful views

Banana s

Lots of bananas

Road cut off by landslide. 

Time with investigators

New ties

Comps that sing together....

Side in the back of a truck from some random guy