Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013
11:59:02 +0800
Subject: Hi!!!
From: eric.heaton@myldsmail.net
To: heatonjudy@hotmail.com
Subject: Hi!!!
From: eric.heaton@myldsmail.net
To: heatonjudy@hotmail.com
Hello the family and friends!!
This week has been an interesting one full of
contemplation, as well and just having fun with our investigators and members
as we try to figure out the best way to do the work here is. So lets begin.
First off is I just need to say it was great
to be able to see the family this week and to be able to just kinda see that
everybody is still there, there still alive and no matter how far away I am
they will still be waiting for me when I get home. It was also just fun
to be able to speak English with someone who is not a missionary for a
change... Its definitely an interesting thing to think about, and I was talking
with my companion about it as we were biking down the road, but just speaking
our native language here is almost like speaking in code, because most people
wont be able to understand what we are talking about when we speak English and
no body really uses it here except to try to communicate with the random
foreigners that pop up every now and again.
Beyond that things are going good this week I let
it slip that my birthday was on Wednesday and so a bunch of people got together
(mainly the missionaries I think) and all pitched in to buy a little birthday
cake, which was really nice, but because they gave it to me at church I figured
it would be better to save it for DTM which is on Tuesday to eat it because
there would be a little less people there =P but it was happy and I'm excited
to eat that. Other foods that I ate this week was actually a... as a
Taiwanese person learning English calls it "A traditional Taiwanese
wedding cake" which is actually a little odd. So I think the
definition of sweet in Taiwan is a little different than sweet in America,
because this cake has I think about 13 layers, and I think one of the layers is
actually just plain meat, but it also has a lot of sweetness in it and it just
turns out to be a really interesting flavor. but that's the most interesting
thing that I ate this week.
Lets see, this week was a little slow on the
lessons but we have been spending a little more time working on trying to
figure out what it is the ward has in plan for this ward, as well as what our
part of that is, trying to see how the ward want's us to use our time, and to
follow them. I think the biggest thing is that they want us to work with
as many less active elders as we possibly can so that we can get the
accomplishment of having this ward and others turn into a stake! so that's the
big excitement right now.
Well thats about all that I have for you all.
The work moves forward, the people are nice, The weather is a little cold
but I think its getting warmer, and I'm nice and happy.
Until next week!
Elder Heaton
何長老
