President Teh is the man. Fun fact: He is still a General Authority and member of the quorum of the seventy. He is just on a 2 year (that's right, 2) assignment here in Taiwan. Speculations and rumors have been flying around the mission. For a seventy to be called as a mission president, something super big has to be happening.... right?? There are some members in my district that think China is gonna open up soon and they're just going to take all the missionaries in Taiwan and send them over there. Who knows. We had the opportunity to go meet President Teh and his wife this week. Hearing that man speak is just like watching general conference it's so cool! He speaks as though he has all of Preach My Gospel memorized in his head. Many of us were anticipating that he would make the rules more strict. However, he has taken away 'The Taiwan Taichung Mission Rules & Clarifications' and has simply left us with the white hand book. In a way this does put more responsibility on us to know the letter and spirit of the rules. On the other hand, it's been nice being able to do some of the things that we weren't allowed to do before such as using the elevator in the church, being able to eat meals in the church, listening to stuff other than EFY/Mo Tab, and ordering pizza. I also had the super cool opportunity to have my first interview with President Teh. He is such a kind and loving guy! He asked one question to begin the interview and that was, "If you're mom would describe you, what would she say?". A master question! I came away from the interview thinking that it felt short but also feeling like President Teh had already learned a lot about me in that short time. General authorities are cool. In other news, there is a lady that lives in the 3rd ward's apartment building named Pan Jie Mei which translates to....... Sister Poon! She is awesome. Not just because we have the same last name. She owns a Nike factory!!!! Long story short she game me a free pair of Nike's yesterday and they're sweet. Other than that, we continue to see miracles on the daily here in Zhang Hua. Our lessons have been getting really bold lately which is awesome because that is a sign that our lessons have also had more love! It has been easy to see lately the Lord is directing the work here in Zhang Hua.
Root beer is rare in Taiwan. We found it at a random grocery store and I had my first root beer float in a year!
Super sweet ward activity. Pretty much just a 2 hour long water balloon/water gun fight with food.
'Merica
I've actually had 3 companions this move call. Raymond (the short term missionary) and because there is an odd amount of Elders in the mission right now, Elder Kunz (on the far right) was our companion for a few days last week. #brothasinthepriesthood
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