Transfer to Douliu

What a great final week I had in Fengyuan.  After 7.5 months, i'm leaving! I love the area and the people.  As I look back on the experience, I truly believe from the day I got there until now I am a completely different person and more importantly a completely different disciple of the Lord.  Every companion, every situation, was exactly what I needed! I am grateful for our Heavenly Father in giving me the opportunity to have the experiences I had there. I have made many eternal friends. 

I am moving to an area called Douliu in central Taiwan, and will be training, so my new comp will get to Taiwan and I will meet him on Thursday! In the mean time I am in an area called Tanzi, right next to Fengyuan, with an Elder Provard and an Elder Barker!

Sorry I don't have a lot of time, next weeks email will be better!!

Love you all!!!!!!

Elder Henderson

Weekly Letter

Hello!!! It has been another great week here in Fengyuan.  The work is definitely starting to pick up!  This past week we had interviews with President Teh, he is super awesome. It's not often you get to have a 1 on 1 conversation with a General Authority of the church.  He really is a true man of God.

This past week we have been really trying to work on using a book about our family history created by the church.  It has been a really cool experience gathering information about my ancestors and then sharing it with others.  The Taiwanese people really love and respect their ancestors and when they see two, Foreign Christian missionaries talk about it, it really gives them a different perspective on our Church!  We have really seen people starting to connect with it, and now we have started inviting members to put together their own book and share it with friends and family!

This past week we went and were knocking on some doors trying to find someone interested in the gospel. Went down a full street/alley thing and no one was interested.  It was almost 9 pm, so we packed up and started to head home.  As we were leaving the area we ran into a guy in about his 40s waiting outside a house for his son.  We started to talk to him about his family and his aspirations for his children.  We testified to him he could be with his family forever and he was instantly drawn to that truth.  We set up and met the next night with him and his 17 year old son.  We shared the plan of salvation and as we asked him to pray to know it was true the spirit came over us all.  He felt it!  He wants to help his family, and I know it was God's plan we ran into them!

I am grateful for the opportunity to serve our Savior.  I have seen this Gospel change the lives of so many here in Taiwan.  God our Heavenly Father, is a God of miracles.  He acts according to the faith of his children.  So if you want to gain a testimony of Him.  Do what it takes!! Read the Book of Mormon and ask with a sincere heart to know if he is there and if the book is true,  He will answer your prayer, I promise.

Love you  all!!

Elder Michael Henderson

We survived the Typhoon!!

Good week! Sorry not a lot of time! The typhoon was a bust and nothing really happened!! 

This week I studied one talk in particular by Elder Dale Renlund. "Our Good Shepard" I think it was called. In a sense we are all diseased sheep, We are all not perfect, we all sin, and because of that we are as "diseased sheep". My favorite thing he talks about is, that when Jesus Christ came to the earth, he walked with sinners, he ate with the diseased, and he cared for the poor. He doesn't care who we are or what our background is, he loves us no matter what and will be with us no matter what we have done, as long as we are willing to believe and act. This has really changed my view of it all. I love the Lord and amazed by what he has done for us. I am grateful he is willing to walk with me even with my diseases.

I love the work and the opportunity to serve others and the Savior!

Love 

Elder Henderson