Elder Chase Millett: New Investigators, Bye-Bye Andy, and a Xiao Tou‏

Hello Family,

I hope that your week has been phenomenal. Ours has been pretty good here in Taibao. I guess I'll get right into the meat of it.

So, yeah, we have new investigators!!! We have finally been able to find some promising investigators. The first is a guy named Chen Yun Ying. I talked a little bit about him in my email last week, but I'll fill you in if you didn't get the chance to read about him. So, Chen Yun Ying is a hardcore Taoist. Essentially, he is like a monk in training. He travels around the area, going to different "miao's" or Taoist temples, to worship. Elder Watson and his previous companion had run into him around "Guo Nian" time. (Guo Nian is the Chinese New Year). And at that time, he was super busy with his family and stuff, so he didn't have time to meet. But we finally found time to meet with him and yesterday was our second meeting. He is GOLDEN! Although he is super firm in his beliefs right now, he has agreed with and liked everything we've taught him thus far. He is super smart. He has been able to connect all of the dots and understand the points we are trying to make. We invited him to start reading the Book of Mormon and he has done so. He seems to like it.

The other new investigators are this guy named Rush and his girlfriend. We contacted into them on the street a little while back, but he too has been super busy with his work. He works for real estate and is constantly traveling all over the island. But we got to sit down and eat dinner with him this week in Puzi. He speaks fluent English. It's pretty much perfect. He spent a year or so in Australia and was able to learn. So that helps if I don't know how to say something in Chinese. His girlfriend speaks pretty good English too. We invited her to our English class and she said that she would come, so we will see what Wednesday brings. But they are super cool and we look forward to meeting with them.

Now, onto the second part. So, here in Taibao, there is a restaurant that we go to eat at all the time called Lao Di Fang, which translates into "Old Place." The lady who owns it is a less active, who runs the store with her non-member husband and her son. They love missionaries!!! They have been helping missionaries for like 10-15 years now. They have become our really good friends. So, this week, the son, named Andy, had to go to GaoXiong for a job interview at a printing company, and he got the job! So, our friend Andy left for GaoXiong on Saturday. We are so happy for him, but it was kind of sad to see him go. But we wish him the best. Please pray for Huang Jie Mei. Without her son there she is having trouble finding help. I will attach some pictures of us with them.

And the third part, Xiao Tou, means thief. So, yesterday, we came home from church and were trying to get into our apartment. To our surprise, the key would not go into the keyhole. It's not that the lock wouldn't turn, but like the key wouldn't actually go in at all! We went down and talked to our security lady who called our landlord. He came and looked at it and he couldn't figure out why it wouldn't go in. So, he called a locksmith who came and opened our door for us. He said that it wasn't a big deal, that sometimes the gears in the lock slip and the key won't go in. So we didn't think much of it. Well, a little while later, while we were doing our studies, our neighbor knocked on our door. He was standing outside with what I thought was a police officer and some other guy. He asked if our lock was broken. I told him that it wasn't and he said that some guy had broken into his house and that he had thrown stuff all over and of course, stolen some things. We were curious. Later, we went back downstairs on our way to go make some calls, when we saw the officer, our neighbor, and all of our security people looking at the security monitors in their office. They were apparently looking for someone who broke in. So, to sum up the story, the guy had obviously come up to our floor, tried to break into our door with no success, and had then moved to the neighbor’s house where he, unfortunately, had had success. The Lord certainly blessed us that day, and we are praying for our neighbor that everything will get sorted out.

Taiwan is very very green. So humid though too. Elder Watson said that this has to be the warmest area he's ever been in either! He said that technically, GaoXiong is the hottest area in the mission, but because you are always surrounded by buildings and stuff it's not so bad. But here, because we are always out in the open, it gets a lot hotter! So yeah, I sweat.....a lot..... But I guess that's to be expected.

Well, that about sums up this week. It was a good week, with a few funny happenings. Well, I hope to hear from you guys soon and know how much I love and miss you.

Sincerely,

Elder Chase Joseph Millett

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Me with my new district leader Elder Jenkins. He was also my Dan Jones companion!!!

The knighting of the new Elders in our district by our new zone leader

Huang JM, Andy, Myself, Zhuang Di Xiong (one of our RC's), and Elder Watson

So, last P-Day, our less active friend Rafiki took us to XinGang, the northernmost part of our area, to play and sightsee. Here are some pictures of us in some old masks we found.