Elder Jonathan Poon: New Lyfe April 12, 2016

A very inspirational week. General conference was a spiritual feast. It was without a doubt the most I've ever gotten out of conference. Our church leaders are super "lihai" (which means incredible/amazing/very skilled). My main takeaways were that we need to remember our divine heritage at all times and that obedience, like President Uchtdorf said, is not a process by which we change ourselves into people we are not. It is rather, "the process by which we discover what we are truly made of". We are children of a loving Heavenly Father. That's the 1st principle of the 1st lesson, people! Anyways, I really gained a lot of personal revelation and inspiration. It was fun watching conference with all of the Jia Yi missionaries. Everyone pooled together to buy a ton of stuff from Costco so that we could just have lunch at the church it was awesome. Well, now to the crazy part of the week.... Sunday afternoon, Elder Jackson and I were making up studies when we get a call..... from President Blickenstaff. I answered it and then President told me that he needs me to train a native missionary that is waiting for his visa to go to the U.S. Oh, and I need to white-wash. So that is why I am writing you all today instead of yesterday. I had to pack all my stuff on Sunday night and did not have many chances to say goodbye to the amazing people of Min Xiong, but I got to the mission home at around 11 Monday morning. We had some meetings and stuff and then I met my new SON, Elder Chen!!!! He's a boss. He's from a place called Tao Yuan which is where the airport is in Taiwan. He's probably the most humble human being I've ever met. The Blickenstaffs took us to this super awesome hot pot buffet that is across the street from the mission home and then we took the train to a place called Zhang Hua which is the next big city south of Tai Zhong. Our apartment is an apartment that has been closed for a while and is just now reopening up. We got there last night to find that the keys they gave us were old keys and the locks have been changed! So we had to call a lock smith and get the locks changed again lol. Zhang Hua is pretty sweet and our apartment is just a 5 minute walk from the chapel which is really nice! A big change from living in Min Xiong where we had to ride 40 minutes to get anywhere! There's a bit of adjusting to do right now. We obviously have no investigators since we are white washing and have even less time because of the training study schedule, but that only leaves room for improvement! I'm super stoked to work with Elder Chen. He's super mature already and has a great testimony. We're gonna see some sweet miracles, no doubt!

-Elder Poon