Companions in and out

So this has been quite the week! We had the chance to go and do two exchanges this week! so this week i had 3 companions;) haha just kidding but i did have a ton of fun! I am to the point where the vast majority of people i go on exchanges are younger than me, especially right now we have 3 companionships in training right now! so it has been really fun! Because they are all very driven missionaries!

We had the chance to meet some really cool people this week! so we have been meeting with an LA and oart member family, with 2 children unbaptized 18/19 and they are really only LA atleast they say because theu don't know anyone when they moved here years ago! But we have been trying and trying to get them on a baptismal date. We have asked 2 or 3 times! but they keep giving us silly excuses that might seem real to them. But we sat down with them, and at the end of reviewing plan of salvation and gospel of jesus christ we invited, and it came out again. Then My temporary companion was like "it isn't about do you have time in (2months) on that exact day, it is about are you willing to work for it." and they kind of looked down and thought and then agreed to work for it. They still didn't set a date but they said they will work for the baptism. That was a really cool experience.

We also had the cool chance as we were contacting on the way over to an investigators house, we stopped a lady on her moped, and she pulled over and talked with us after the light trned green, and we ended up setting her up for the next day, she couldn't met that day, but set up for sunday. Well she showed up with her two kids!!!!!!!! and had a really good lesson with her! and her kids are super legit thier 5/8 and both have great english! But we have her set up again and hopefully she can bring her husband next time. But they are gonna be an awesome family to start teaching! We have been really blessed in this area to have a couple of families to teach and make the teaching process so much sweeter, they are much harder to find time and help understand the gospel, but they are so worth it!

this week has been great we nearly killed oursleves on a hike from heat last week, hosttest day of the year......

Summer is here

Well we have either had heavy rain or heavy sun for the last week! It has been fun to know that summer is here and is ready to give everyone a big sunny blast to the face every morning! We have had quite the week this week! So to kick it off we decided due to heavy rain to postpone our hike, and we would go up and play ball in the taipei jinhua chapel! It was awesome had a bunch of the old district in xindian over there to say hello! And we played for a good solid couple of hours, and wore our selves out pretty efffectively! haha

But this week we had the opportunity to have a district meeting with our new district and get to know everyone! So it was just so exciting to meet everyone! we have some really good missionaries around here! We are going to explode all over the west taipei!

we also had the chance for a great training from president! It was literally awesome! it lit a fire, we are setting a awesome mission wide goal to get more baptisms! we have some awesome fire and the leaders throughout the mission are setting everyone up! We are getting this place lit up! so the first thing they trained on for this was simply the power of the book of mormon, which is truly powerful! literally i can share several miracles just from the last few days about the book of mormon. But i will simply say if you have any question that your wondering about open the book and read it, you dont necessarily need to find any place to read just open and read from it. You will find answers on every page. It will strengthen you, and support you through everything. And it will lift you beyond your wildest dreams becoming someting so much more.

We also had the chacne for exchanging this week! i got to go with our district leader! Elder Diener man he is a champion! We had the chacne to book it over to shulin to meet up with a member and eat. He has been struggling a little on activty and then he is going to one of the worst places in taiwan to do the mandatory military service, for 3 months. But he is a great man, just a little confused right now about what he needs to be doing. But he is a sincere man! We will continue to work. Then he got sick from eating an unrefrigerated hard boiled egg. So we took care of that the next day. He is a powerful missionary! 

Life is good everyone, be excited to live, be excited to go and do no matter what it is! I read in 3rd nephi yesterday during my language study i was reading in chinese because GREAT practice reading ancient records. But i came into the verse that jesus asks the multitude "which of you taking thought can add a single cubit to his stature" so DONT WORRY ABOUT IT dont complain dont delay go and just do guys! life is good!

Love you! Elder Conover

Scroll letters 

Bamboo blown over from Typoon

Blisters from wet feet working in dress shoes

Old things pass away, All things are made new

IE transfers!!!!!!!! Elder Puzey is outa here! i got a new companion! Elder Fitzpatrick of Sunnyvale, California. A champion i met back in the MTC he is older by 1 transfer. But man he is a great man! We have had a great time!

Step 1- when you recieve a new companion make sure you give hima good tour of the area, and then right before a large typhoon hits bike over into the north side of your zone to give a baptismal interview and make sure he is on a bad exchange bike that skips as he tries to ride up the hills! 

good  Step1: check! 

Step 2- when the typhoon makes it to you, make sure you have to bike across a large bridge near on coming traffic with crazy winds whipping down the river, and ensure you have to bike agaisnt the large part of the typhoon winds after you get off the bridge and can enjoy screaming hymns at the top of your lungs. 

good step2: check!

Then just have fun running around helping people pick up mopeds and clean up fallen bamboo, and then grab a flimsee hand saw and help people clean up the wreckage of their bamboo crushed house, needless to say we had a dope service opportunity while we were riding along the road, found an old grandma with a huge grove about 8ft across and 10Ft thick of bamboo got ripped up in the wind and crushed thier house luckily at that time they had not been injured but the house severely damaged they had 6 people working sincne 7am until about 8pm to clean up and didn't come close to finishing. But we had the chance to jump in shirt and tie and saw up some bamboo, and some crazy drunk guy told us we couldn't leave nd Jesus says we have to saty and do. for the record he had just barely walked over there and he had no intention of helping. He was pretty funny.

I forgot the camera i had some good picks of trees ripped up and my new comp butnext week

love you guys.serve all love god obey:)

Elder Conover

HOLY COW#baptism

Xholy cow! this has been crazy! this is the last P-day of the transfer! i hope everyone is ready for some change! It is fun to see how fast time goes, and it only ever gets faster! We have had a great adventure lately! tons of miracles because God lives and loves us!

We had zhong heng（忠恆） get baptized!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So this week we are coming off of temple day so that expalins a little of the strange set up of emails! and i only have like 4 days to cover, but i can share this story with you.

There once was a ward, known as TuCheng, they had some really good people, and so one day the missionaries decided "let us feed these people with the true goodness" IE-waffles. So they called the mission president and borrowed a nice waffle maker, they made the preparations for nearly a month, this in joint with a follow up activity right after of course. They invited many people, and the day arrived, yesterday in fact, with church ending at 5pm the activity starting at 6pm and well over 40 hungry people there, the mess began bacon in the pan, pre-cooked pancakes and sausage(they were actually just hot dogs soaked in bacon greese) in the oven, eggs being whipped for scrambling, and the largest of bowls for waffle batter, constantly being added to from a smaller bowl! With the taiwanese at their backs, fruit being washed, the missionaries worked, and within an hour the feast began, everyone attacked the delicious food like wolves on a sheep. The missionaries just kept cooking! after a while the feasting slowed. Then they were gathered to the chapel area for the following activities, with tummies full, and hearts enflamed. The sisters began to help some right testimonies in the Book of Mormon, a volunteer member helped make posters, while the Elders trained on how to do a proper Dan Jones. For on the coming of Friday we shall use all that we prepared! The crowd was crazed, members intranced, and the investigators in love!

And that my friends is the story of why i slept so well last night, it also set quite the fire below our members! They are ready to go and looking forward to this friday night, when THE MEMBERS TAKE ON THE STREET PEOPLE!!!!!!! you can just imagine that in your best fight night voice.

Any way great week! we loved it i want to simply say, Prayer works, because we literally talk with God not just to him, He talks back! He listens and answers. He prepares all that we need. We need only work for it and ask him. He will give all that we need. If you ever feel you are talking to a wall, get out of a routine, try something new, actually think on what you are saying. ponder as you pray give time for him to talk back, and prepare yourself to act and recieve ANY answer.

Love you all

Elder Conover

This week has been quite the week! It begins a little like this, I'm tired and ends a little like this I'm tired in the middle goes like this How can we not be tired? 

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Few suggestions later lets try that!

Needless to say for some reason Me and Elder Puzey just had a week where it was incredibly hard to wake up! however we did and it was super good! We had a ton of fun this week!

We had some really cool miracles quick story i wpould like to share, once upon a time we set up our investigator for a baptismal interview, and after passing the interview he was filling out a form, and uponing filling the form we found his whole address. Which the District Leader saw and felt oddly familiar about a wuick search of the maps we found that this now completely ready and completed lessons guy doesn't live in our area, there is a little past of a place called 樹林 SHULIN which falls under their wards boundaries, a silly curve of the map but a curve none the less. We felt like idiots but decided the best way to handle is we teaach and just use their members to take care of him, and then now he knows the other Elders he can just do RC lessons luckily their ward is great and took care of aall the other details like the baptismal service and stuff. #i love it

we had some beautiful views here lately cuz we have been running back and forth across the river to and from 樹林SHULIN We have had a crazy week at first we were a little worried about last week, but some how we found a way by the grace of god to fill our days with stuff to do, and we have been seeing so many miracles around us in helping us continue to keepo our area. I have found a big piece of why i am here is to teach me humility in all things. Because i have realized lately that i just need more of that, i pray daily for it, and repent daily of pride. It feels great! 

I'll just so you our week through pics!

there is a member that make high grade fake lightsaber that you can really battle with it is sick!

we also ate a giant thing of shaved ice. grand total of 30$ and filled 8 missionaries stomachs big

Miracles Roll

Well in and out, the work is continuing to pickup and build around 土城 it has been a riot this whole week. Running from place to place trying to get everything done! We have some really cool investigators working right now! I would like to tell you specifically about 忠恆(zhong heng) he is a champion! he is a college student, recently crashed his scooter and has been progressing very quickly through the missionaries favorite lesson #4 We sat down to share a little about the most commonly trouble commandment (word of wisdom) cuz EVERYONE drinks tea. But after we taught him he was like.......... "thats gonna be hard"............"i'll do it" #i love that guy!

I will be honest i am typing on a really stupid keyboard and im loosing patience really quickly. So imma be shoprt this week.

We saw a ton of miracles Because Heavenly Father lives, and loves us all, and has been blessing us like crazy lately! And i have been growing much more in knowlkedge of our Savior's power by way of expeirence and repentence. I have been focusing on becoming all that i need to be before i invite my investigators to do things. i have been trying to experience everything they do so that wheni invite they can feel the power of my testimony by way of expeirnce. 

I know God lives, in heaven, and loves us; not only that he has given us all a plan in life to have joy and success, known as gospel. This is able to help all people especially when applied as a family. These things are given to us by his Holy Prophets, and all they say and do in the name of the Lord will or has come true. They all have born powerful testimony of Christ because he literally lived and died for us, and now has resurrected and continues to take our trials and weaknesses from us. He has restored his lost gospel by Joseph Smith, because he knows we need his gospel, and hates darkness and confusion. And now it is in our hands to act and to find out about it through study and prayer. I promise that if you do you will feel a new level of joy and peace come into your life, no matter who or where you are. whether or not you grew up in the church, whether or not you are happy now, it will change everything, and bring you to a new level no matter how many times you hear and do it.

孔長老 love you guys! 加油 kill it.

定嘉！！！！！！！！！

定嘉(dingjia) is baptized!!!!! I had the amazing privilege this saturday of returning to my old chapel(新店碧潭） and assisting in my good friend ding jia being baptized. He is the best guy ever. When i returned everyone was happy as can be! So let me introduce定嘉(dingjia) he is a 9year old kid, who is curious and incredibly caring. He has a very small little brother, and his mom 維平(weiping) was struggling for a long time to come to church. Well our awesome ward start to help her, and then she asked us to help her son. He quickly became one of my good friends. He is also one of the best people i've taught, because he listened and learned everytime! Not only that he had a desire to learn more about our church!

Part two about baptism this week, it is my first RC in taiwan's year mark on the 7/2. And i had the great chance to see her last night at the fireside for taipei! She is so awesome! and is doing great happy anniversery 程月份Joyce!週年快樂！！！！！！ We talked a little bit, she is still woing well!!!


This week has been a ton of fun, we have gone on two exchanges one with the 新埔 elders, Elder Jorgensen was my companion for a short time, he is a champion youngish missionary and a great heart and desire to work. He and I had a lot of fun together simply because we got up and did. We also had exchanges with 三峽 elders; Which i had Elder Cooper in the mix for a day! he is such an awesome guy! And that was a really fun time too! because we came back from the amazing zone conference, and felt reaqdy to ruuuuuumble, and we did. We parked the bikes and walked to a lesson a little ways away, and along the way just talked with everyone, it was a very successful night, we even ran into a guy waiting for his friend who offered to take us back to his house and teach him a lesson right there. unfortunately we were headed to a lesson and were unable to and then he simply said well i guess fate will give us another chance so he didn't give a phone number... But 2 minutes later we ran into the guy's friend! It was pretty funny! We directed him to his friend, and he was grateful, but also didn't give us a shot.

Last week we had a great P-day hiking a super crazy fun hike, and nearly dying, so we biked an hour through the cloudless sky in the summer, get to this hike, which My companion has jiked 2 times and never could finish, so we set the goal to finish it. Well at the top of the hike, we hadn't eaten much, drank all the water, and we shot. So we ran the roughly 45-1hr down a quicker less fun path, and laid at an 阿媽shop for about 20 minutes sipping on a supao before a nice hour ride home. We decided that was the most we ever had sweat. Our basketball shorts, were dripping sweat, they were past saturation dude, it was dope, and we felt good all week