Pretty Legit

So this week has been super fun! We are getting near the end of the transfer, and this week marks the end of our transfers. and I will have to be getting a new companion oh no!!!!!! thats ok this coming transfer is gonna be so awesome!!!!

So this week we had a super fun thanksgiving activity we had a ton of members bring friends it was super awesome!!! We had a ton of fun, they had a fun little dance we all jumped in on. And then our RC also brought one of his friends he has wanted us to meet for a long time. and he was super nice, and had a little curiosity about what we are doing here. 

Also last week we had the great chance to start creating new tracts for the mission use, we have been using the same ones for a long time, and we all feel that they could for sure use some improvement. And President just had us make the content and create the tract and then we just sent all that stuff to a good friend of mine a member from an old area, and having him design and fit everything around as it should be! I am so excited to see what happens!!!

We have smartphones completely launched now, which is super awesome every companionship has theirs and it has been crazy to see the work speed along! Makes quite a few things easier and faster especially contacting members and investigators they are way more likely to answer over "line"which is super nice!!!! It has been awesome to see the missionaries stepping up, overcoming distractions, using everything to their advantage!!!!

Reunion

I had the chance to gather my whole generation this week!!!! And then we went on an exchange! Man it was so fun! Elder Jensen and I got to be companions for a day! And we let everyone know that Our whole generation was together and that we were companions! It was so fun, and it was really well times, I needed his help and it worked out well we had to move the exchange back to this week!

and we had a great week!!! We met some awesome people, a guy from cananda, who is a healer for another church, he told us in the most respectful way he thought our church was wrong. And told us our church will block the healing of people... hahaha But he is super nice!

We had a great chance to help an investigator who is returning to the phillipines do a blessing and stuff to help her be at peace she plans to be baptized when she returns in december. And her friend plans to do so with her!!

last pday we barbecued on the roof and played pool... it was amazing!

wind up

Well we have had quite the week! It was super fun, so we had the chance to go on an exchange here and there, and then we had a great chance to cancel one the day before cuz we are kind of mean! hahahaha just kidding.

I will be straight i dont remember a ton of what happened because we are swapped to the smart phone or planning and everything which means, i dont write it down, and i dont remember as well.

But what we did do was a training for 30 of our greats missionaries. To get their own phones and to get started, and they will pass ot down the line, it was pretty stressful while we were preparing cuz the idea was we need to be able to answer all questions that are pitched but it went really well!! So it was super fun! And we got to all hang out together!

I have exchanges with to of my old comps this week, Elder Fitzpatrick and i had a ton of fun, we just got to teach of few people, one oif them was over skype call!! cuz he is up in tamsui and then Elder Cheney and i are together right now, because he came up from taidong he has to stay a few extra days to do some stuff, so we get to hangout the next little while! But i am actually exchnaging with Elder Walters a great guy that was in the MTC with me, good guy!

pretty good week, we ate some shanghai food last week with an RC
we got to see some one we found and taught get baptized this week!
this is what happens when missioanries get smartphones

LIFE CHANGING

Alright folks my life just got thrown for a loop so starting from last tuesday (day after i emailed you) it was announced to us we are getting smartphones. Since then i have now got one, and will have service on it today.... WHAT!!!!!!! i know lets give a quick story.

So the missionary department was like, how can we be better. Well our missionaries carry a little nokia and some missions also have an Ipad, well, lets put the two pieces together and expand to like 9 other international missions! And ours is one of them! And i get to be in the front side, i will be training a bunch of other people on how to use them coming in the next couple days!!! super crazy!

We had a super fun week! so we had a bunch of work to do this week, we have been on a smaller side of people we were really progressing down the line for a while, but we have been really focused on simplicity and spirit filled lessons, and as we have been doing the preparation needed we had a great week! we set We re-set two of our good friends dates and set another 2 new ones!!!! And they have all decided it is time to prepare and to change! WE also had an awesome week of people at church, we had a really cool memebr that has been struggling the past little while to come to church and be believer. But the last few months he made the decision his life is better here. HE brought to super cool friends to church! And they both want to learn more!

We have seen some super cool miracles as to what the lord wants for us! We had an awesome zone conference this week, and president and sister Jergensen gave a rousing training on having a vision, and our Zone Leaders did a great demonstration and additional training to help us all apply it better! I had the chance to really ponder this week, what is MY VISION, and what is the Lord's do they allign? I made some notes and plans and thoughts and i am going after it now, it is going to be amazing and has been quite the eye opener of i could be so much better if i had done this earlier in my life. 

I highly recommend making a vision of what you want out of life, or schoool, or work, or any of those things and then make goals and plans to make it happen.

Elder Conover:)

Promptings

Alright so this week has been really cool!

We have been finished up with all the crazy fun of transfers now we are preparing for the coming zone conference! I am so excited i have found one big thing that has changed since i have been out here is my desire to learn, grow, and improve has become a driving force for me. I have found my need and my desire to be more than who i am always have been, i want to be an effective messenger of the truth and i want to help more people so i am working and trying to change and it is so fun!

This week has been awesome we have done a ton or stuff. So our english ward has been on fire lately with bringing people to things to meet us and inviting them to come and learn about things. We have had a ton of really awesome phillipino members bringing their friends. And we have a new couple in the ward form honduras. And they are awesome! They gave us a really cool talk last sunday about working in the church and doing the things god commands. Brother Mauricio gave a really cool thought about how if just half of the members of the church brought one friend a year to help get baptized then within 20 years we would have 1 billion members!!!! how cool is that! that is 1/7 of the current population! I never new how fast that would work! pretty sweet!

The chinese ward has been super cool too! We got a new ward mission leader this week! It is gonna be really fun to see the changes our ward want to work with us super bad! They are great people that just want to help the church to grow and improve!!!! I love serving here we get to see so many miracles. The hand of the Lord has been manifest to me often and many times a day through simple things that don't "normally" happen!

we had a beach P-day last week!!!

WET indoor and outdoor

We have had a crazy week this week! So for starters there was a typhoon that went nearby Taiwan, so for about four days we had a constant rain and wind all along the mission! From Taidong to Miaoli! Which really put a whip on my feet, to quote my fantastic companion, "my feet feel like frozen raisins." We decided to turn off the AC sometimes! hahaha.

But the coolest thing that happened this week, was our good friends周世樵 and 張育誠 got baptized! Not only that but 周世樵 made some huge changes and actually invited people to his baptism! And decided that he would be baptized with the other guy! Originally he kept telling us "I don't want to be a zoo animal for people to look at." But then he later realized they weren't there for that, but to support and welcome him! And even after 3 days of rain, and a constant down pour and another activity happening, our ward was super supportive of them and we had a great turnout! 張育誠 gave a fantastic testimony, got everyone laughing he is a super solid middle aged sales man, and he is naturally good with speaking, so it was fun to see him up front bearing testimony for the truth! And then we also had a good friend 董宇峻 the old missionary i just replaced here came back up to see the baptism! He is a good friend of mine, i love that guy!

We have had some really cool people start showing up, we just met with one of our youth, he is about 15 and he brought to friends to play ball, and we asked if they would want to learn about the church, and they both agreed, so we shared a little restoration with them, watched "because he lives" and then gave them Books of Mormon, they both are planning on every week whent hey come to ball, they will just meet with us and then come to church the next day! We are excited we could use a few extra youth!

We also got to go ice skating again this week but for free! Our investigator that just got baptized has a little cousint hat is a figure skater, and her mom took us and him over there for free! Elder Johnson started to learn how to do the pretty little spin jumps! i was still working on the spins!!

Love all of you! Elder Conover

General Confrence

Man i love the prophets and apostles. I firmly believe they are all prophets, seers, and revelators. They are set apart by God, for the imparting of his word to us. They do it wonderfully! So i know most of you saw it last week, but due to translation needs i just barely watched it yesterday. And it has once again reminded me of the need for improvement. I felt an amazing theme throughout these sessions was the need for humility, repentance, and being reliant on the Lord.

This has also been a big theme for my life lately. I have shared a little before as to some of the lessons i have learned with this new transfer. And also the things i have learned from my companions. I just want to again share my thoughts as to the fact that all things come by and through the merits of the Lord. My favorite saying lately has been "relying wholly upon the merits of him who is mighty to save." I love this saying just reminds me that no matter what you do, you cannot earn anything of yourself. In the end, success, happiness, peace, salvation, and exaltation are gifts of God given through the merits and mercy of "HE who is mighty to save" I love my Savior, he truly has sacrificed himself for all, including me and you. And he speaks to us today, by the mouth of holy prophets and also through personal revelation. I have ran across Ether 12:41 lately. And just want to say, those who seek find, i would follow the counsel of the scriptures and also those who are currently writing scripture;) It will bring much joy to our lives.

We have had a really fun week, we met some super cool people! I got to go back up to 北投(beitou) where i was first "born" to teach someone we thought was a phillipino but turned out we went up there and she was not, so long story short she is not someone we needed to go up there to teach we could have had the sisters up there do it! She came to church last week, but we didn't see her, they just gave us a name, number, and said call! So that was pretty fun, they took us to a crazy nice house way up on the mountain and they kept like 30 dogs! i have never been to a house that literally smells like a dog! they are awesome though! super nice, and most are injured in some way! It was a great little experience. We also had two of our awesome friends pass their baptismal interview!! It was so cool! We also had one of them randomly call us and ask if we wanted to BBQ with his family! So we did, his family is loaded, it was fun! they love us, we will slowly baptize them all!:)

Love you all! Elder Conover