WEEKLY UPDATE-- I suppose it is time.

  6:19:59 PM HST

Time to write an email about my week. First thing's first. I feel like they should change the way they do the Earthquake drills in elementary schools. The reason I bring this up being, this past tuesday morning we had an earthquake. It was not that violent but it was big enough to shake up my companion real well. While our apartment was shaking and things were falling she came running out of our room and shouted, "What do we do?! Do we get under the desks?!" All i could say was, "Welcome to Taiwan!"🤗 Sister Watson is a sweetheart. I love her a lot.

Fun things about being in YuLi, we teach english class twice a week in two different towns. Tuesday Nights in RuiSui, Wednesday nights in YuLi and hopefully Saturday afternoons in ChiShang (we are looking to open up a third class). 

We had exchanges this week. Took an hour train ride to HuaLian city and spent the day as Sister Austad's companion. During an exchange we met; a extremely hyperactive dog named honey who could not, for the life of her, stand still for 2 seconds, grace, a Taiwanese lady who grew up in Vietnam and then moved to America for school and now is back in Taiwan because God told her to come here. She is a very devout Buddhist and Jehova's Witness. We walked into a McDonalds to find that the first and second floor (except for one table) was reserved for a group of high schooler's on their "Graduation trip". I don't know why you would go to McDonald's to celebrate graduation...anyway, at this McDonald's we met  El Jose Maria this dude from Spain who spoke un poco de inglés so we tried talking to him using the best high school spanish that we could remember. We asked him "¿qué estás haciendo aquí?" (What are you doing here?) El Jose Maria said, "El Jose is free man. Alone boy, alone girl, NO PROBLEM! Go and see beautiful, No problem." 😂Gracias, El Jose!

The GREATEST thing about this week was that we were able to take a 5 hour train ride to Taipei to attend MISSION CONFERENCE! WOOT! Every missionary in our mission was in attendance. Why the special Mission Confernce? Well, Elder Quentin L. Cook,Elder Ulisses Soares,  Randy D. Funk, and a few others really amazing leaders of our church came to share a message. It was the most powerful meeting I have ever attended. I wrote a lot about what was said in my journal so when I get home (In 9 weeks....😱😱) I can tell you all about it. 

Well, don't want to bore you all with my words. Shout out to my friends who have officialy finished their time in the MTC and are now heading into the FIELD!! 🤘I LOVE YOU! 

-Sister GOo