Elder Gerritt Vander Linden III

I get to go to the temple today woot Woot! I am so pumped you guys don't even know.  Anyways, this week was pretty good! There are a few highlights from this week that I think that I will talk about.  Alright, so the first is dodge ball! We actually played the very last dodge ball game in the mission. Fun stuff. It was especially fun because I left my workout shoes in LA and so I was playing in some good old church shoes. It was the first time I had thrown a ball in forever so my arm was a little sore afterwards which was kind of funny. Anyways, back to the last dodge ball game in the mission. We had zone conference that Thursday and dodge ball was banned, so yeah, that was funny because we have credit on the last dodgebal game in the mission. Don't worry it wasn't our fault though.  The next day though I got in a bike accident! Woo-hoo for riding bikes in Taiwan. This actually had nothing to do with the crazy traffic here this was just all me. Basically what ...

So first of all, before I forget to tell you all. Next week I will not be emailing you all next Monday. We are going to the temple next week on Wednesday so my P-day will be then! I'm super pumped for the temple, it'll be in English so don't bother asking (; Anyways! This week was pretty good! 陳 JM had her baptismal Interview and will be getting baptized this Saturday! We are super pumped for that. There's one bad thing with that though, that day is election day. Apparently you have to go to your home town in order to vote? We aren't entirely sure on the logistics of all that, but election day is huge here. Politics are also huge. I'm not sure on all the rules regarding campaigning, so that might explain some of this, but there are posters everywhere! There are literally cars that drive around with people's faces on them and play prerecorded messages over and over and over again. In fact, when I was on exchanges we were walking around and this parade for...

Hello everyone, I am pretty sure my subject of my emails will be that every single week because man, Taiwan is amazing. As you can all expect, it was another great week, as are all weeks here in Taiwan.  So I wanna talk about I think three cool things that happened this week. Maybe four, we'll see by the time I finish the email.  The first is a super cool experience! So I don't remember what day it was, but we in general are having a hard time finding people. So we decided to up our efforts of talking to everyone. Literally everyone. If you are in Taiwan, you better watch out for us because we promise we will talk to you. But this one night, we were having a great conversation with this one guy, really awesome conversation, super awesome, this guy was totally feeling the Spirit and everything, he was literally in the process of giving us his line, then his dad like calls for him and he doesn't say anything and just leaves. We were super frustrated. So at that ...

***The pictures he included in the email- are in the picture link*** Alright everyone. So I'm in Taiwan! It is so awesome here and so beautiful and wow. It's great. I'll go through my first few days here and try to use at least a little bit of detail. So we got on the plane monday night at 11:40. We arrived Wednesday morning at 9:00ish. Now that was a long flight. We had to stay up until 7 o'clock LA time and it was tough. However, elder Harmon was able to help me stay awake. But we got into Taiwan and President Peterson and his wife were there and they all welcomed us and helped us change our money to Taiwan money. Taiwan money is awesome. However, there is one problem with it. The coins are actually worth a lot of money. It sucks cuz I have to keep track of my coins. But it's okay because it looks super cool. Anyways, we took a bus back to the temple/mission home/patron housing and walk around on the street a little bit and talk to people. It was really cool...