Amy here, so I am a little behind on posting Taft's emails.  It has been a crazy month and I feel like our life kind of exploded.  I am posting each of the letters separately so it's not just one long post.  Enjoy!

March 31^st

Hello everybody

So this week I could literally feel the shaking power of the world. It was quite an experience and probably won’t forget it just know that all the missionaries are accounted for unhurt and still working hard.

Alright since you heard about the earthquake I’ll tell you about it. It was actually kind of cool and weird at the same time. The epicenter was in Nanto which is the city right below Taichung I was at the mission office when it hit doing an evaluation on a zone leader exchange and it was really interesting to see all of the people run around. In the office and   how calm president was. but what surprised me the most was that the first thing they office elders didn’t do was pray in all honesty as soon as I heard that it was big I bowed my head said a prayer for the missionaries in Nanto and knew it was all ok. Then president Bishop responded very quickly and calmly just like a leader should have. Few weeks ago I and Elder Bee had the impression to stock our emergency kits and water supply so we did. (Note from Amy* a few weeks ago mom asked him to make sure his emergency kit was in order)  We were fine.

So the rain has started to come. I don’t think we have gone a day without it raining this week, it is awesome!  Also this week I had goose, it was way good!  Expensive but way good! Today is a new move call. Me and Elder Bee are still together in Fangjia. We have a few people switching in and out of our district. 

 So this week I had an awesome experience. I got to participate in Dan Jones again except this time I got to help out the new missionaries, and man it was so cool, right as Dan Jones started it started raining and I love contacting in the rain it is the funnest thing in the world. Also, the new missionary I was with was so cool and so willing to go about saying what he could with his Chinese. It was also a really big helper for my Chinese. I realized I could say more than I thought I could and could understand more than I thought I could. Please keep praying for me though I still have a long way to go but man, the gift of tongues is real!  It is there, and I will continue to do my part to obtain it. Thanks everyone who has been praying for that.

We have a really good investigator right now who has a few addictions and has little time to meet with us. But he is so cool I hope we will continue to meet with him. Elder Bee has gone so long without success, he deserves it. He is such a good missionary. I will invite everyone this week to read 2 Nephi: 32.  It has some really good promises in there and I know each one of them are true because The Book of Mormon is the word of God. And In all honesty if you read your scriptures and say your prayers every day and go to church the commandments won’t seem like commandments, they will just kind of be there. But I promise everyone who reads this if you read the Book of Mormon sincerely, and sincerely ask Heavenly Father if it is true, you will have a sense of peace come over you that you have never felt before. Read your scriptures, say your prayers. Remember the atonement and what our Savior did for us. I love you all I know you are all children of God and he wants to help you. Love your brother, son, friend,

Love, Elder Taft Green