Elder Chase Millett: Rethinking Our Approach, We're Doing What?, and Some More P-Day Fun

This week has been ok. Pretty slow though. But I guess it was ok, can't complain too much. Eric is doing really good. He is still progressing rather quickly and is getting excited for his baptism on April 2nd. And we have been able to meet with some of our regulars this week, but weren't able to find anyone new, so that was kind of rough. But it's ok.

Well, recently, Elder Park and I have been thinking about how we can work more effectively. Most of the time, if we have some empty time during the day, we ask the question, "Do you want to contact or make calls?" And that is about it. But, this past week, we decided that we needed to take the counsel in Preach My Gospel about working with the members. So, we have made it more of a priority to set up some Active Member Visits during our week, so that we can help them in their missionary responsibilities as well. We have some awesome members, and we know that if we do this we can find more people to teach and build our relationship with the ward. So, that should be good. So, hence the "rethinking our approach."

Well, in addition to changing our own approach, we have had the opportunity to work more closely with our new ward mission leader. He was called a few weeks ago and is definitely trying to make some changes. He has a lot of really weird ideas though, like this last week, we made these pinwheel things out of straws and went to a park yesterday to pass them out to families. It was super awkward, at least for us Elders. The Sisters seemed to have a good time though. But it was kind of fun. I found myself chatting with some Amah's in my very broken 台語, who then asked if I wanted to exercise with them. I happily obliged. They wanted the little pinwheel things too, to give to their grandkids and stuff. We didn't really get to set up to meet with anyone, so it was kind of rough, but the Sisters got like 4 families' numbers, so that was definitely successful in my book. Well, enjoy a picture of my exercise experience.

Lastly, we went to 石頭烤肉 last week for Elder Bradford's birthday lunch. It was super fun. If I haven't already written about it before, Shitou is an all you can eat BBQ restaurant. You just keep ordering meet and you cook it yourself on these little individual grills. It was super fun. Jamal and Ricky came with us. Here are some pics.

Well, let's see, what else happened this week? We found a part member family in our area book and decided to go visit them. The wife, who is a less active, wasn't there, but here non-member husband was. They own a little pudding shop on some back street, so that was fun. They gave us some free pudding because the husband remembers meeting with the missionaries before. So, we are going to try and work more with them. Oh Yeah! We totally got anti'd by some white guy this last week. We were stopped at a stop light and he waved us down to talk to us, then he proceeded to spit out the usual anti-Mormon arguments. It never makes you feel good, because you feel so bad for them! But, Elder Park and I had a good laugh about it afterwards. Just goes to show, you never know when your testimony is going to be tried. But it was definitely an experience to remember, getting anti-Mormon'd by some white guy living in Tainan. Haha. Lol.

Well, that is about it for this week. It was pretty rough as far as numbers go, but it wasn't too bad. We still had some success. Training is just about through, we will find out on April 2nd who is going to be moving, so the time is not far from now. Anything could happen! Guess we'll find out. Love you all and can't wait to hear from ya. Love ya!

Sincerely,

Elder Chase Joseph Millett

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