Christmas Time

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwweee yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaah its a good christmas and not very white.... but it is actually super white!!!! We started the #whitechristmas around here. People getting baptized everywhere!!! Its the best Christmas ever!!!

anyway, i have had a great week, we had exchanges and fun and games. But what i want to say to everyone is to just think about what it means to have christmas. Because, i can tell you they don't really celebrate christmas here. But it reminds me all the more of what ts for. Even our church members need to reminded its not about what we do but rather why we do it! I sure love every one that i can talk to, and everyone on this list. I just want to say Christmas is the best time of year because it is truly a sacred time of year all over the world, no matter what religion you are. Its a time of remembrance and preparation. Improvement and service. 

love as he did. i love all of you!

we had a christmas concert and it was legendary!

Choirs and Carols

This week has been pretty awesome! so we have been doing a big choir thing lately, we do it every year. But it is so fun! we travel around with a ton is missionaries and perform for different things and then we can just talk yo everyone that attends! it's creates a great face for our church and helps people see us and give them an opportunity to interact with us. and we have a ton of fun singing Christmas songs!

We have also been doing Carrefour caroling. a large grocery business all over the island has partnered with us and they have groups of us go.around and Carol in their store with speakers and music. It is so fun. we have seen tons of success from it! What we did is we made our own little info card, and then we kind of just put a QR code on it, to have people scan and they can ask us (literally me and my comp) questions through line, and we can invite them to activities and to meet the missionaries. After 5 stores have done this we have over 100 people on this line and several people are met and set up through this activity!!! SO fun!

Also i had some super fun exchanges this week like with good old Elder Heaton, and ELder kleine and Elder Bird! man it was so fun! also the weather has  gone from summer to winter and back 2 times and we are back to winter witht he rain. IT IS COLD..... i dont like it!!!! psych it is so fun!!!! we wear sweasters all day long now a days! and we get to do a ton of fun stuff!

It’s all over now folks

Man this week has been crazy! We saw so much happen this week, we had 2 times where we had extra missionaries sleep with us, and we saw them off around 5AM, we had the new missionaries come in finally! A week late, they slept with us, and we were up witht hem around 5AM again, and within 48 hours we had a follow up meeting with half-way trainers, we had district leader training, welcomed the new missionaries, did welcome things with them and then we also held MLC, and then hwe had exchanges with some of my good friends!!! This week has been crazy!

So i had the chance to be with Elder Kaufusi and Jorgensen on exchanges, I spent it with Elder Kaufusi, he is such a good guy! we had a ton of fun! and I was so impressed with his work ethic and focus on finding and helping families into the gospel! WE had the chance to really go and do the missionary work and it felt so good with him! HE is quiet but dedicated, and isn't afraid to open his mouth! I love that guy!

I think we are past the "busy season" though so i think we are ready to rumble for this transfer. Elder Walters is so fun to be with! I am also so thankful for him! HE does such a good job at finding important tasks to do and then completing them! Its so nice, i can trust that he will finish anything he starts, and I know if he ever needs help, he will ask It's so fun with him!

Hey guess what! I love all of you!

Elder Conover

New Companion!

Alright, so I got a new comp I will greatly miss Elder Johnson he was awesome! but now I got Elder Walters, who is only 6 weeks below me, he is awesome! He comes from the town of Las Vegas, and is one of the best pianists ever! he is super legit! He has been down on the east coast for a while, but now he had come back around to help me out! We have had some fun stories already because we both love to tell stories so we have been sharing the stories of our lives! he is hilarious!

So this week, we had a sweet PdAY out at elephant nose mountain, on the coast of keelung. Which was super sweet! we had a member take us out there and it was crazy fun we hung out with elder Jensen and Giordano, and the office elders there were a few sisters that came but mostly we had a couple elders. We found a little bunker outlook and climbed Inside that, and hiked up to the highest point nearby and it was beautiful. the members were so awesome!

so we had my new comp show up a day early and got him on Wednesday, but then we ended up having some serious problems on transfers, the number one thing was the babies didn't come! so we have trios all over right now! hahaha but the rest of everything went super smooth! Luckily everyone had a smooth sailing trip. we still don't know when the new missionaries are coming... oh no! 

We have had the chance these first couple days together to be fairly busy we have had things to do so far and have been truly enjoying it. though we had a frustrating sunday, we had soooo many people sleep in and cancel on us, I was sooo sad! But then we also heard from one of our awesome investigator  who just got back to Taiwan, that they have been having second thoughts the last few weeks(they've been gone) so we just need to see them. but they made the member friend nearly cry with disappointment so I felt super bad, but we told them both no problem we are gonna take care of it!

great week! Love all of you! -Elder Conover c

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