This week was super awesome!!!!

Hello, hello!

This week was super awesome! haha. I love Elder Storey he's super cool. Super down to earth.

I don't know where to begin....This week was really busy.

We had a really fun ward BBQ. It was super fun. We had a ton of investigators show up and Jesse Wang showed up! I love Jesse. He still kind of struggles with believing that all religions are true. So... that's something we're working on, but he's super funny. I talked with him for about an hour and 30 minutes about Hollywood Films. He loves Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg movies. The one thing I got frustrated about was no one was talking to him. Like none of the ward members really made any sort of effort to talk to him. So for part of the BBQ he was just sitting in the corner eating mystery meat. I don't know, I just felt really bad. But I think he had a good time for the most part. I decided half way through the BBQ that I was going to have to be his friend for the day. Jesse Wang BBQ Quotes:

"You are such a handsome man! Oh yes! A handsome man. You look like- ! Oh please forgive me! You look like a young Woody Allen!"

"I'm so sorry! I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! Please! May I ask! I'm so sorry! What is your favorite Hollywood Film?"

After that we made a trip to the Metro City Harbor Hospital to visit one of our investigators who had a kidney stone taken out. It was super fun. He had this really cool room on the 15th floor that overlooked the ocean. Plus he was teaching us hilarious Taiwanese phrases like, "You're hungry? Go eat ****." It sounds absolutely ridiculous.

We've had a lot of rain this week... I always forget how bad the rain is here. It's gotten to the point where I just have completely given up on rain gear. Yes...I don't wear rain gear anymore. I just get soaked, because, regardless of what you wear you're going to get soaked. So, I just give up. In fact, a lot of missionaries just say whatever. It's like what Forrest Gump says about Vietnam's rain, "--It rained so much, sometimes it would rain sideways and sometimes it even rained upward." The same applies to Taiwan. Everyone hear thinks the acid rain will make you go bald, but I don't see a lot of bald people walking around..

During the massive amounts of rain we had the opportunity to be first responders to a scooter accident. We came around a corner and saw this guy just laying in the street and his scooter a couple feet from him. A couple of people were there already but no one was really doing anything. A guy walked over and kicked the guy on the ground, but he wasn't moving. So me and my companion just kind of walked over and then he started to move. His face was pretty much wrecked. But we told him to stay down. He didn't listen... So what did he do? He got on his bike and drove off....... Hahahaha! Me and Elder Storey were laughing pretty hard. He was swerving all over the place. I don't know, I have a completely different mentality to Taiwan and wrecks. That story makes us sound like bad people, but Taiwanese people are just crazy when it comes to automobiles.

On Saturday we were able to baptize, Liu Cheng Kai. He's 16 years old and he was pretty much golden. He has a lot of faith already. He's super cool! The baptism went smoothly and he was confirmed the next day. Now we're just trying to get him to go on a mission when he turns 18. He'll be an awesome missionary.

So, David Archuleta came and had a concert here in QingShui.... We LIVE in QingShui. The mission never invited us to go. So we didn't go. But, the WHOLE office went on stage and sung with David and got to talk to him for like 4 hours. What a bummer. So lame.

Other than that, I'm really liking my area. It's a good place. I definitely would like to come back to Taiwan after my mission. There's a lot of things I think I'll miss when I go back... Like the massive amounts of DongGuoCha. Or the massive amounts of fried rice I can buy from Vietnamese ladies. I'm finally on Phase 2 of the mission language study program and I am really loving it way more than Phase 1.

Sounds like home is really busy and stressful. Sorry to hear about that. August is always the worst. Lots of stress from school and stuff. I think things will eventually settle down and get better.

I love you all so very much! You're all awesome.

Love Silas.