Rain, Tracting in the Rain, and Zou Lu-ing in the Rain‏

Hello Family,

I hope that your week has been a good one, especially with it being the last week of school for you! I hope that all of you are planning for an awesome summer!

Well, if you couldn't tell from the subject of my email, it rained this week, a lot. Like, A LOT!!!

So, we had heard from an investigator that it was going to start raining on Wednesday. We thought, all right, not too bad. 

Well, then Wednesday came. It had started drizzling a little bit that morning and we thought it wasn't a big deal. Well, on the way to Puzi, Elder Watson and I saw what looked like a grey wall moving towards us. But then we started to hear it. There was literally like this wall of rain moving towards us! We darted to the side of the road and threw on our rain gear, but by that time it was too late. We were both soaked as the sky started to drop an ocean of water on us. We kept pressing onward to Puzi to meet with our investigator at his house. But the worst thing was that when we got there, his house was closed up. So, here in Taiwan, every house has a big metal garage door thing that slides down in front of the entrance to their homes to prevent water from coming in. So, this thing was closed, so "mei you ban fa." So, we tried contacting for a little while, but nobody wanted to stop and talk to a couple of white guys in the pouring rain apparently. So, we pulled into the nearby 7-11 to make some calls and do some language study. The rain let up a little bit and we headed back home. Well, this rain hasn't really "stopped" since Wednesday, and we have done everything in the rain.

On Saturday, we went to MaYuLiao to meet a less active for dinner at another less active's new restaurant. Well, the dinner went well, and afterwards, we started biking home. Well, MaYuLiao is about a 45 minute bike ride or so. So, about to XinPi, about a 30 minute ride from our house, my back tire on my bike decides to "bao diao." It went flat. Without a pump and not much time to spare, we started walking to our home back in Taibao. Well, about an hour and 10 minutes later, we finally made it back home. But yeah, walking down rural Taiwanese roads in the rain for an hour is always a fun thing!

Well, that about sums it up for this week. Lots of rain, but we are still having lots of success. Our investigators are doing ok, although some of them have not been able to meet for a little while. We are still working to set things up with them, and they still like us, so not all hope is lost. We are doing lots of finding and have been able to find a few new potential investigators. 

So, this week for personal study, I wanted to really put focus on sharing the words of modern prophets and apostles with our investigators. So, I started thinking about our individual investigators and their needs and different talks and other resources we could share with them. One thing that came into my mind that seems to be a common need among many people is their desire to have some life-altering, dramatic event that will allow them to know the Gospel is true. Well, the video that came into my mind was the Mormon Message, "Waiting on the Road to Damascus." It is all about how the Gospel will manifest itself to those who really desire to know of its truthfulness, but that it won't always come in some dramatic, mind-blowing way. It will more often than naught, come slowly and gradually, filling people with more and more light as they continue to search, ponder, and pray. It was a really cool subject to study.

One last thing, training ends today!! I am done with training and am now part of a normal companionship. We leave the door at 10:30 instead of 12:00 now. More time to "chuan jiao." WOO HOO! So, I'm pretty excited. Anyways, I hope that you guys are all doing great. I love you all and I hope to hear from you very soon. God Bless!

Sincerely, Your Brother, Son, Grandson, Cousin, Nephew and so on,

Elder Chase Joseph Millett

雷長老

Zone Conference in Jiayi complete with Costco Pizza

(And PS: for those of you who are still curious about the demon bird, we finally found out what it is called. In English it is called a Black Drongo. In Chinese it is called 大卷尾. 

We met a professional photographer at a restaurant the other day who had some pictures of this bird. I will send them so you can see what has been happening to us! It is too funny!)

Demon bird aka Black Drongo

大卷尾. 

**So each week Elder Millett sends us a talk or a challenge to participate in. Here is this weeks:

"This week is a little different. I want you guys, for family home evening this week, to watch the Joseph Smith: Prophet of the Restoration movie. The hour long one. You can find it on LDS.org or you can probably get it at Deseret Book. But I want you guys to watch it and then tell me how it built your testimonies of the prophet Joseph Smith and the Restoration of the Gospel."