Hey everyone!
I have made it to the lovely island of Taiwan safely, so you can all take a deep breath in and relax from the edges of your seats. Hee hee. The island is wonderful and beautiful and magnificent and any other positive adjective you can think of. I am assigned to serve in the Dan4shui2 area which is amazingly beautiful. It also rains here every single day. Very pretty.
I don't know if this is too copycattish, but I wanted to do a food review as well. This week I had this noodle soup the name for which I am not sure of. Basically it had a broth much like lu2rou4 jan4, but less strong. You pick all the different types of noodles to put in and the meats and stuff, all of which have various prices, then hand them over. Minutes later, they hand you your dinner. Delicious. You got to watch out though, because these people liked spicy I am sure because I asked for a little spicy (xiao2 la4) and they put like three measures of the chili in. Very spicy at first, but definitely something I'll get again.
My trainer's name is Elder Benson. He is very chill, comes from Atlanta, Georgia and also likes to breakdance. Unfortunately, he's not much of a popper, but that's okay. We also used to have sisters in my area just down the street from us. Sisters Thiessen and Li2 were very cool. The area is closed to sisters for a little period of time though, so we'll see if we ever get any back. Basically, Sister Thiessen was the queen of the unwitting awkwardness, yesterday, at an activity for singles for our ward, we had the following conversation:
Sister Thiessen: Wow, it's kinda cold up here.
Me: Cold? (incredulously)
Sister Thiessen: I'm not wearing pants sir.
Awesome right?
I would send pictures, because we took some really cool ones, but I can't get my card reader to work at this internet cafe. Maybe you'll just have to wait until I send the card home. Hopefully I can get something worked out.
Finally, this week, when we were teaching Xu2 dixiong, my first lesson with my trainer, I saw a wonderful miracle. I was able to communicate so well and understand pretty much every word that he said. Even better, Elder Benson and I actually had exactly the same thoughts on where to go with the lesson. It was a wonderful testimony of how much the Lord will help us when we put our trust in Him and then dive right in. I promise that as you turn your hearts to God and then jump into whatever He has given to you to do, He will make a way for you not only to succeed, but to dominate (figuratively speaking), because He loves to help His children to succeed.
I love you all, especially on this Valentine's day, which I forgot about.
Love,
Elder Siebert
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