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!