Wow!! What in the world is going on?? haha I'm finally in Taiwan and it is so crazy!! My companion's name is Brad Neuhaus from Tennessee and he is soo cool! He played basketball at BYU Hawaii and is a baller. We get along awesome so this is going to be fun. He's been on the Island for 7 months, super young for a trainer in Chinese!! I am in downtown Gaoxiong, which is three hours south of Taichung. It is the second biggest city in Taiwan behind Taipei. It is so crazy, people everywhere, speaking 900 mph, and I can't understand any of it! haha Everyone here drives scooters around and I feel like I'm in New York City and going to get hit every 2 seconds haha but I love it!!!!
The First night in Taiwan, before I met my comp we went proselyting. Me and Elder Booth (One of the APs) were on splits together. We walked up to a girl and started talking to her, she was super receptive and so we invited her to take a tour across the street at the church. She agreed and we went. As we were explaining everything, it just felt right. We asked her to say a prayer and she did. The spirit was so strong and I know she felt it too. She is in Taichung, so I hope the Elder's up there can keep teaching her!
The next day we took a three hour bus ride down to Gaoxiong. This island is soo pretty! It is sooo humid here and like 95 degrees, I haven't stopped sweating since i've been here!! We taught a couple lessons Friday and Saturday and it was cool to see me actually speak Chinese (Lessons are the only time I kind of feel comfortable speaking lol). But Sunday was the best day so far. Started the day off with a half hour bike to church and it was hard!! Going through so much traffic with a broken bike. When we got there everyone was trying to talk to me and I couldn't understand a thing haha needless to say I was pretty flustered. We got into sacrament and I decided to say a prayer for comfort and assurance that Heaveny Father would help me through this. Nothing happened at first and I bore my testimony in sacrament meeting, right after I finsished, a crazy member in our ward started clapping. It was really funny. After church a guy randomly walked into the Building want to speak English with the "American Missionaries". We told him we only teach English on Wednesday's but we would love to share a lesson with him. The lesson consisted of him speaking English and my comp speaking Chinese. I was saying much because I can't speak Chinese very well lol. But my comp gave me the opportunity to bare my testimony about Jesus Christ. As I did, the spirit came into the room like a huge wave over us all. I have never felt the spirit that strong when bearing testimony. I know he felt it and agreed to come to English on Wednesday and probably share another message. This experience answered my prayer, I know as long as I am here and working as hard as I can, Heavenly Father is there and he is willing to help me in everything I do.
Then another story from last night. We were proselyting around a cultural center and trying to talk to as many people as possible. No one was listening and we started getting down. I asked if we could say a prayer for guidance on where to go. As the prayer ended, I had a strong feeling we needed to talk to a lady standing about 20 feet away. We went up and starting talking to her and she was very receptive. As we were talking, her 3 kids and sister walked up. They all listened and agreed to meet with us this next week!! I know Heavenly Father is guiding us to his Children who are prepared to received the Gospel and I lucky enough to be an instrument in his hands.
Thank you for all the love and support!! Talk to you next week!
Love
Elder Henderson
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