Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015
11:43:16 +0800
Subject: A week of power in the city!
From: eric.heaton@myldsmail.net
To: heatonjudy@hotmail.com
Subject: A week of power in the city!
From: eric.heaton@myldsmail.net
To: heatonjudy@hotmail.com
Hello everyone!!
This week was actually really fun, a little
bit stressful and just kind of crazy as I was trying to get used to my new
area/companion, while working on what we call power week this week which is
just a bunch of crazy goals that we wanted to try to accomplish like passing
out 13 Book of Mormon's in one day while also trading contact info with them,
adding 20 people in a day or other things. It was pretty crazy but also
really fun!
The week started off with me coming to the big
city of Kaohsiung to meet with my new companion Elder Dayley, He is actually
someone that was in the same MTC District as me and so we knew each other a
little bit before now, however after the MTC I had not really had much contact
with him due to the fact that most of my time on the mission I have been in the
southern parts of the island where most of his mission has been spent in the
northern parts of the island. But now we get to work together woo!! I'll
try to get a picture of me and him in dropbox this week, but if I forget or run
out of time, sorry!
Other than that this week was power week,
which also meant that study time was pretty much cut in half, there was 30
min's of personal study and 30 mins of companionship study, then we were out
the door and just going to town trying to talk to everybody, its lots of fun,
however I felt a little bad because I still had no idea where anything was
because I was in a new area, and so the entire load of trying to do everything
was on Elder Dayley's shoulders, but he did a good job and we were able to find
quite a lot of awesome prepared people to talk to.
Another cool thing about the area is that when
I got here they had 3 really prepared baptismal goals that we are working with,
two of them are a couple of really awesome kids whose mother was less active
for a while but is coming back to activity. They are both really funny
and they make me laugh every time that I see them. They sometimes bicker
a little bit but its always in kind of a funny way. Then the other baptismal
goal was part of a family that we are working with. The mother is really
interested in how the gospel can help her 3 daughters and has been studying the
doctrine pretty in depth, then her oldest daughter is the one with the
baptismal goal, she is a really prepared soul that enjoys being at church and
just wants to improve her life. then the other two are really hyper and
like to cause a lot of mischief. All it all its pretty fun working with
them.
Finally I think that the biggest difference
that has come from the transfer here is just the amount of people that you
see. Back in Dong gang you would be able to travel for a good 20 minutes
without having much of a chance to talk to anyone, however here, the distance
between our house and the chapel is about 20 minutes, but that can easily
become 2 hours if you really try to talk to everyone that is on the road and
everyone that you see. Its really kind of crazy, but its something to get
used to haha.
Well I hope that you all have a great week and
that everything is going awesome!!!
Love you all!