April 14, 2014 Toothbrush Salesman in Taiwan

I haven't had too many crazy adventures this week, but lots of fun stuff happens all the time. I try and look for a weird strange or funny thing that happens every day and usually theres at least one haha. one thing while contacting an old man yelled out of his truck HALLELUIA to us as he drove by and it was pretty funny. while watching conference on saturday some random guy walked in and hands me a toothbrush and tells me to mo.(touch or feel) it and he just starts pulling our all these four packs eight packs and 24 packs of tooth brushes and is giving me a sales pitch in the middle of watching conference in the chapel and it was just hilarious. he realizes that we are in church and he just bu hao yi se's and just leaves. yup those are probably two of the weirder things that happened. sad to hear about puppy and it sounds like she got pretty messed up, (our dog was hit by a car on Friday and needed stitches but is ok).  I found Nala's lost family here, there is a family of cats that live around the chapel here and are always playing and running around on the grounds. I pray for you all by name every night to be safe healthy and happy. I love you all so much, give Nala a kiss for me and let her know everyone in taiwan thinks shes absolutely beautiful.  I'll write a letter soon. Love you all.

Sincerely,

Elder Dexter

Quinn sent a bunch of pictures this week so I will attempt to add all of them below.

                                                   Peanut butter and banana burger.
                                                   He says it was actually pretty good!

                                                    Any guesses as to what this means?

                                     He's not kidding about security.  This is someone's front door.

                                              This must be the local college motto!

                                          Somebody is playing the alphabet game in Taiwan.

                                            This one is for you Grandma Donna.    
                                         

                                                                 What in the world?
                                                   

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April 7, 2014 "My Bowels are . . . Open?!"

Im in the area of Xin Zhuang, and I have a ton of stuff to say, theres like no time at all. I got qinged for the first time here and ate soup with giant shrimp, clams, mushrooms and Tofu skin. sounds like fun for someone who has never liked any of that haha, I buckled down and ate my fill until I accidentally bit down on one of the shells and the entire left side of my mouth shot into unbearable pain. I cant wait to get my residential card so I can see a dentist. please send me milkyways, or twizzlers, or sweedish fish, at night I'm starving and they dont sell any of those there, but some stuff I've found is KINDER!!! they have kinder chocolate here, it is pretty amazing, and this weird flavor of Kiwi Fanta. theyre super weird and super good, street food is getting to me a little though. not being able to eat eggs is pretty obnoxious here because they put it on EVERYTHING, even their burgers... yes eggs on burgers. but we have like 5 or 6 investigators ready for baptism on the 19th of this month, we just have to get their parents permission. on wednesday I taught my first english class, we were studying the V and B sounds it was alright because I teach the advanced class, so then we started talking about b words, and someone asks about the word Bowel... yup bowels, and old people here talk about bodily functions like they're nothing here, so the oldest guy in class "Luke" goes off on asking all these questions about bowels, and he said "Can you say, MY BOWELS ARE.. OPEN!?" about 30 times and I just had to keep saying yes haha, but we talked about bowels for like 15 minutes. it was pretty fun. the language is still rough, but its going to work out alright. I found a guitar in my appartment and figured out how to play a few songs on it, smoke on the water, moon dance, fields of gold (when I found that one me and my companion both started talking about how much our mom's love sting haha) I almost die like every night riding all over the roads, and there are so many cool looking cars here, you either have a super nice street racer car, a super fancy car, or you drive a box delivery truck... Miles, remember all those cars we made with legos as kids... make those life sized and they probably have it here in Taiwan. I'll work on getting more pictures of me, but I'll send what I have now. yes mom you'd feel right at home here in Taiwan, EVERYONE has these reinforced doors and they all have super cool designs on them I'll send a picture of one of my favorites later, but here in Xin Zhuang, the Church is going well, I've knocked on about 22 doors so far and always ALWAYS they yell BU YONG (It means i'm good or I dont need your religion) it hurts sometimes because we know how much better their lives could be if they only let us in their house for 10 minutes to share about the gospel of Jesus Christ, but those same two words will deny them that for as long as they live. its pertty sad :( At least I tried, and I'll keep looking for the diamonds in the ruff to those people who are prepared by the Lord to hear the Gospel by the mouth of His servant. 

Much love, 

Elder Dexter

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