Week 90

A NEW WAVE

Things are really changing fast in this mission! We have a new mission president and he is not afraid to do things differently. I think he is going to be a really good president. I was able to meet him last week during MLC and I was really impressed with his humility and also his wisdom. I could tell that he has served as a member of the Seventy before. 

One of the changes with this new president is the elimination of the “Taiwan Taichung Rules and Clarifications” handbook. This is a handbook which has some specific rules and clarifications that are particular to our mission in addition to the white handbook. For example, every time a woman calls us on the phone, according to that handbook, we are required to put the phone on speaker. Even though this seems like a big change, I doubt it will really make any big difference in our mission. The rules inside that handbook were little small rules.

Also, we changed the rule when it comes to facebook. Starting today, we are no longer able to use facebook. It is okay though, because I always thought facebook was annoying to use, because it was so time consuming. If people want to talk to me, we can just use email.

As you know, we had our temporary missionary with us last week.  His name was Chen Wen Tai. He was really fun to have around for a week. I have always wanted to have a Taiwanese companion, so it was a good experience! 

The other good part about him coming was that he brought a lot of miracles! As you might have heard, there was a typhoon in Taiwan last week. However, the typhoon turned out to not be that big, so it just rained a lot. Since it was raining, we had to spend some time making calls inside. While making calls the day of the typhoon, we called a lady named Sister Wang. Apparently, she had met with missionaries a long time ago, but since the missionaries she was meeting with suddenly moved, she stopped getting visited by missionaries. So we went and visited her on Saturday night. We arrived and we met her and her two sons. She has one son who is 15 and one son who is 17. We sat down with them and talked about Heavenly Father and our purpose as missionaries. As we shared with her and her sons, the spirit was present. We invited them to come to church the next day and they came! They seem really willing to come and learn. She kept telling us that it was God's will that we called her that day, because she is usually too busy to set up, but because of the typhoon she had time. It was such a cool miracle!

I love you guys!

Elder Quist