Week #73 Had a Meeting with a Chinese Tea Party

1. How are your investigators doing this week? Are any of them progressing? Yes,we nailed an invite.

2. How was Zone Conference? It was pretty cool. 

3. What exciting thing happened to you this past week? My comp was sick.  

4. Who are you sharing your apartment with?
Another companionship.

Ni hao everyone! Well this week has been actually super duper boring. My comp picked up a cold and we were in for 4 days and the other 2 days we had meetings so we really only had a a day and a half of teaching... so ya our numbers are super haihao.  I will be expecting the call from the President that I am getting fired soon.  The cool thing that happened was we went to go teach an lLA and well he said his friends wanted to meet us so we were pretty excited.  When we showed up there were like 10 Taiwanese old dudes and we sat down and they were all really nice and then they started playing this video... then we had a bad feeling.  It turns out they are part of a group of Taiwanese that wants the USA to liberate them. Kinda like a more radical tea party.  I said we had to go and could not really affiliate with them and that I have to love everyone, so we left.  

Apparently a lot of them came from all over the area to meet with us. I have no idea what they thought i could do.  I went to a Jr college. I felt bad but honestly our roles as missionaries are to help people change their lives. We had a guy commit to baptism which is pretty awesome. He has been investigating for a while and it’s supposed to happen next week. I had to go on splits with the ward leaders and during the 2 lessons i didn't understand anything... it was entirely in Taiyou not Mandarin.... crazy.... Anyways i am heartbroken over England losing... but how about the USA!!! See ya later Spain . World Cup is in full swing over here. Love you all. Cassie have fun in Bolivia and Jacob live it up college man!!

Week # 72: A Great Tracting Miracle

1) How are your investigators? 

Well we have 3 goals right now. I  think they are super hai hao.... so idk... i am aiming for more quality than quantity. 

2) how is your companion? What great experiences have you had together? 

We can relate together.  We are both half Asians and like to play music. 

3) Is it hot there? How do you keep cool? Do you have air conditioning in your room? In your entire apartment? 

Air conditioning is the greatest thing ever.


4) Do you still bike every where or do you ever ride public transportation? 

We ride our bikes everywhere.

5) How are you now liking the food now compared to when you first came to Taiwan? Do you eat it all the time? Do you eat on the street a lot? Do members feed you? What's your favorite food? Least favorite food? Do you like things with red beans in them? 

I like it a lot but I miss other types of food. I eat rice everyday. Yes we always eat on the street. We rarely get fed my the members. I like the breakfast food here. It's pretty good. I hate stinky tofu. I hate the red bean stuff.
 
6. Chinese.  Do you speak it fluently now? How much of it do you understand? Are you able to say whatever you want to say? it takes 10 years to become fluent in Chinese. No mom I am not fluent. I just started learning characters.  Yes, I can talk and understand.

7. What are you doing for Pday? We are going to go out and eat.

Ni hao everyone.  Well another day in the beautiful Republic of China. Well this week has been rough. Its rained the entire week and we have tr acted most of it but not with out the miracles!!! We tracted for 2 hours and not one single person let us in or listened to us. However as we were leaving we saw this one kid walking home and we said hey and started talking to him. It turns out I had played ball with him and so he invited us in to talk and then we got him to commit to a date for baptism. Now that would not of happened if we hadn't tracted that area or prayed... bam... 

We biked out an hour to go find an less active and we saw the ocean!! And so they have these man made concrete things that are about 10 feet tall and they are go down to the bottom so its about 30 feet from the bottom of the ocean to top so we just climbed all over them and it kinda got sketchy but overall it was a heart warming experiences for all. 

I almost got another root canal this week.. which is not too fun.  I might get one next week. i swear i have met with the dentist more times in the last month than in my entire life. Oh ya yesterday we had a boss day set up for Sunday full of lessons... like 8 lessons total and well it rained and everyone canceled on us.  But I got to bring this less active to watch an old church movie with us its called "ON THE WAY HOME." According to Elder Kim that movie dunks people. Its super cool. I liked it a lot. Well happy birthday to Cassie!!! ah man you are so old 16 so crazy!!! I am so happy for you !!! Currently I am in an  awful depression because I am on a mission during the world cup... but go England and the US... love you all. 

Elder Buhler

Week #71: Tracting, Tracting and More Tracting!

Hey fam bam so the email will be short but to start off HAPPY BDAY CASSIE AND JARED!!!! Ah man, I  am still writing you guys letters and grabbing you some stuff.   I am sorry to Kate Hullinger,  who is now the nanny of the Buhler family! You are in my prayers!  Congrats to Jalon... he is coming back out to the field!!!!! And to Jacob for traveling with BYU !!!  This week we did a lot of tracting... a lot of tracting... so much tracting that it was insane.... not a lot of success but I don't care,  I love it. Well I love you all. My Chinese is improving and if anything pray for Sam and Tang and Hong.... I love you all. Elder Buhler

Week #70: The Mission is My Life

Dear fam bam

First off, congrats to our new college boy.  Second off,  happy birthday Jared.  Third, may you all have a Happy Dragon Boat Festival and if you don't know what that is, well join the club.

 

This week has been crazy.  So I got my new comp , Elder Galura who I might say just might be the biggest stud ever. Just a super humble guy whose dad was in the navy and he lived all over the world.  He actually went to MMHS. Did I mention this kid is a musical prodigy? He hears something and can play it and he plays 4 instruments. We are gonna run away from home and start a band. Well we are gonna buy a house and then run away.  Well he is awesome and amazing at music and just a stud overall. Well this week has been cool.  We have picked up 4 new investigators which is like a miracle. The biggest one is S. We got him from English and man oh man he is taking everything super well. We taught him the 1st lesson, 2nd lesson, law of chastity and word of wisdom and even got to polygamy.... all in 1 lesson and he was totally chill with it. Then we talked about the Book of Mormon for 1 hour and man he was still chill with it. He is the most golden man in the world.

 

Elder Galura and I have tract ed for what it seems like ages now ahhaha we tract so much but I am finally feeling we are seeing a bunch  of good stuff happen from it. We have tract ed into like 5 homes, one which is the richest house i have ever seen in Taiwan. It reminds me of Mike Cutler cause well the guy is a construction worker.

 

 I feel impressed to share this. So a lot of us missionaries... OK it might be only me, feel like we put our lives on hold and can't get wait to get back to that life back home but my cousin Calvin told me that this is my life.  The mission is my life. My life is not on hold. It is currently going. For those of you who know me, I am a huge dreamer and I love talking about the past but my cousin challenged me to live in the now. I only have about 7 months left.  I need to make everyday count. Its kinda like editing film on final cut pro in Mr. Boss's class. I felt my life was one long strip and for the mission and I had to cut a piece out and put it on a different line. But I realized that its all one strip. This is my life and I need to enjoy it. I always am thinking about how am I gonna get into the college i want to, or I miss football, or I want to go to Paystrup's wedding or go camping with him or do hood rat things with Cassie but I have to realize  what I have now. Now is a special time in my life where I actually feel like I matter. Its kinda like high school when we are in it we just want to go to college but after high school most of us miss it. I don't want it to be like that after the mission.  I want to leave it all in the mission.

 

I am really inspired by Elder Krieger's letters.  That kid talks with faith and boldness that honestly I wish I had. He talks about through God he can do all things.  I challenge everyone to live in the now, enjoy and  smell of the roses and to be like Elder Krieger and walk with God, hand in hand . Even if you don't know if He is there ... try it.

 

Love you all. Elder Buhler