Hey mom sorry I didn’t write on Monday we had zone conference and brother Evans came it was pretty cool. We learned a lot. Hey so I actually had kind of the same impression that I kind of need to be prepared for any type of emergency.  So if you could make sure there is money in my account and also could you tell me next Sunday how much is in the account that would be great. Oh and pigs blood is actually pretty good. The stuff I’m talking about is taoff pudding. I now know what most of what I’m eating is. Also dad there is a whole chapter in Preach My Gospel about stake and ward leaders and how the ward is to help. I never realized how important the ward is in missionary work until now.

 

 Alright well it sounds like everyone is doing well. Sorry I didn’t get this to you till now P day got moved to Wednesday this week. And I would just like you all to know that I am still doing my work out and I still have a backpack that has pretty much everything I need as a missionary still kind of in the making. But my leg muscles are getting huge. Riding the bike is so much fun here in Taiwan because of all the parks and such. And I have now passed the fourth test of the language teaching skills book. Only three more to go, thank you for all of your prayers! Chinese New Year is still officially going on, but all of the party and vacations are pretty much over. However, lantern festival is supposed to be this Saturday, so I’m excited for that. We had mission tour this week to kick off our power week, it was so cool!  Brother Evans came and the Area Seventy. It was very cool. I also had my first exchanges this week. It was weird not being with Elder Bee but at the same time I learned a lot from Elder Hu who is the zone leader I went on splits with. SO power week is a week where we have a specific assignment each day and we try to hit that goal. But first my culture experience of the week. So it is custom here to make and prepare hongbao's which is the little red envelope thing, and give them out. so we did that for some of the familys. And then we also got to know a lot of members because it was pretty much none stop eating during Chinese New Year. So good. The fruit is amazing they have something here that we would call a wax apple. It is a miniaturized watermelon in my opinion greatest invention ever created. Also the fruit is usually after the dessert here.

 Well I said this week was power week and I have to tell you about one of the coolest things that has ever happened to me. So Tuesday’s goal was to place 15 Books of Mormon and get their info. to call them up. Now this is quite hard because imagine being a small Taiwanese person and having two big white guys randomly at a stop light ask you to pull over to the side of the road for a bit to talk. But it happens all the time. That in its self is a miracle but the miracle is this. I was still on exchanges with the zone leader that morning and we placed 4 or 5 Books of Mormon and then we had a bike ride back to our area and immediately had a less active lesson, then another lesson and we grabbed dinner somewhere in there. Then on our last appointment for the night he couldn't make it.  This is at 7:20ish so we still had Books of Mormon on us, not a lot but we decided we would try to place them. No joke we placed 10 Books of Mormon in the hour and half we had, which is even more amazing! I did not think we had ten Books of Mormon on us but we kept reaching into our bags and pulling them out. Plus we got a bunch of referrals. In all honesty  it was all the Lords work.  That morning I simply asked him in my prayer, “Heavenly Father let us meet the goal and find those who need these Books of Mormon”, and that is what happened. We placed 15 Books of Mormon all in all. I know that you can do anything if one is God and two is you. This is my testimony in the name of Jesus Christ amen.                            Love, Elder Green