WEEK 12: PIG EARS, TRACTING AND BEING CHASED

NOTE: I ASKED JOSH SOME QUESTIONS IN MY LAST EMAIL TO HIM AND HE ANSWERED THEM. HONESTLY, I WOULD REALLY DO A GOOD EDIT FOR PUNCTUATION AND SPELLING IN HIS EMAIL BUT IT TAKES AWAY SOME OF JOSH'S PERSONALITY AND CHARM....JUST READ IT AND SMILE. 2 YEARS IS A LONG TIME AND SO FAR IT SOUNDS LIKE HE IS REALLY HAPPY. WHEN I READ HIS EMAILS, I THINK OF THE JOSH THAT WOULD COME IN MY ROOM AND PLOP IN THE LAZY BOY CHAIR AND SPILL OUT HIS GUTS BY TELLING ME ABOUT HIS DAY.....

1) Do you have a lot of investigators? Who is your most interesting investigator?

2) Are you really busy teaching?

3) Do you knock on doors and go tracting?

4) What is the strangest thing you have eaten?

5) What's your favorite thing to do as a missionary?

Ni hao everyone!!! This week has been crazy!!! Got some tornadoes hitting by us!!! And some evil spirits haahah but ya lets start with answering your questions

1 not really.... too be honest we don't have a lot of investigators.  probs the 2 french guys or this other person we met.

2 not really once again we are contacting more.

3. ya we go up to the aboriginals huts in the strait up jungle and that's where the magic happens or we just get chased with knife toting drunks ahhaha

4. idk pig ear or thousand year old egg.... or chodofu... hate that ish....

5. basketball proselyting....

so this week has been super crazy like i said... nothing too spiritual... our only investigator.... started smoking drinking and doing tobacco because of a girl.... at the same time it was ridiculous.... i gave the kid some girl advice.. i think it was the same advice troy and miles gave me...  We hitch hike a lot.  like honestly we pull over on the side of the road and and hold out our thumb and bam we get a ride. we spent a whole day helping some guy set up his bow flex and he has a whole arcade .... we go basketball proselyting and baseball proselyting.... and not gonna lie i i make buckets and I'm 2 for 3 on winning and teaching a lesson  but its super fun. we meet some pretty crazy people i got chased by some drunks with knives and that was kinda scary buy hey that's what college football is for right? 

oh ya i read McKay i mean Elder Murphy's email and hahaha it strenghtened my testimony so much.... someone please tell him that ahhaha.... um. i loved dieters talk and president monsons talk reminded me of a lot of the dumb things i have done in my childhood...   i also go baseball proselyting... which is pretty cool  cause the kids actually talk to us when they find out we are decent athletes....  so if anyone wants to send me a red sox hat or a dodgers one... that would be kosher ahahha we got invited to tryout for the high school teams... basketball and baseball... i think we are gonna show up ahhaha... we get fed by some families ahhaah we kinda ran out of money and they won't let me exchange my money cause I'm an immigrant....  so i eat a lot of water and rice or rice and water hahah its bloody dead hot here .... across the street is a Taoism temple... but hey its all good. we ride about 15 miles a day. so ya you could say we are in decent shape ahah... there is an Asian version of Amie here!!! now before you all start making assumptions cause y'all from Utah. chill y'all.  she only looks like a lil but she sealed the deal when she punched me in the arm when i suggested you get baptized. it was pretty funny. anyways a member gave us a Costco pizza and sweet mercy that was one of the best things i have ever had in my life....  i saw like 7 stars last night  the pollution cleared up!!! so ya i feel if Al Gore came to Taiwan he would have a heart attack. The Chinese is really easy... ya no ahahah its so flipping hard ahaha  I have no idea whats going on all the time I just guess and nod my head.  

 We met some way more christian guys than me!! ahha i asked if i could see the guitar and here i am playing fast cars and a team and this guy busts out the christian single i can only imagine. and starts praising Jesus... it was really  crazy ahahah....  but ya we started teaching a young woman whose job is probs not the best because it goes against the law of chastity... but its ok we see her all the time at her corner and try to teach her its great!!!  but ya them Asians here have  a crazy three point shot its ridiculous....

so i would like to do an Asian of the week and that goes to this guy who is not right in the head but he walks around screaming at people and spits on ppl in nice suits and school kids hahaha hes a riot always gives me a high five. he is like the only guy who will talk to me .. everyone here legit thinks i am a native American out of  like the res. like the kids make the Indian sound and everything ahahh 

thought of the week is tracting is a lot like doing 1 on 1s with elder miyasaki. i have gone against him for like 5 years and some times you win some and other times he humiliates you in ways you can't even imagine.  its all good because sometimes the guy will talk to you sometimes they make you feel retarded. 

but ya its cool to here my mom is in better shape than i am and running farther than i could sweet mercy a triathlon? i get winded walking to practice or even getting out of bed. that's cool dad took Jared to a game. glad he got a jersey. hey pops when i get back were gonna go to all the fathers and sons. it will be fun. i hear Jacob is well tearing it up. what else could i say other than... when i come back .... IMO gonna destroy you in soccer... we have a ball and i juggled it a whole 20 times.... also don't cut your hair everyone in Taiwan loves it your a celebrity.  cass they think your gorgeous!! and its cool to hear that volley ball is going well!!! cait!!! i hear you did way good at dance
!!! keep working at it i know you are way better than i ever was!!! and Jared... bro i love you!!! you tell coach jolley that you will see him at tryouts !!! I'm glad you are friends will dallins lil bro because I'm tight with dapper and he is swell. Callie i miss you lots... the dogs are honestly insane they lie out in the middle of the road and they roam in packs .... and are miniature scary ish.... 

troy there is a sister here with diabetes... and she didn't take my jokes to well...

Anyways love you all email me if you will. God bless America!!!