New companions and investigators

Hey everyone!
This week I got a new companion: Elder Carlson. He is going to die very soon, like, in five weeks. I feel like such a murdering lunatic because it's me that's going to kill him. He's great and really hard working. We have been working pretty much every second of every day and been seeing a lot of success and have huge hopes of Danshui. It's also really funny because he does this impression of one of our investigators who's got it going for me and has a lisp. He's always saying, "ah! Shi Zhanglao" in the lisp. It's terrifying. But really funny. He also plays guitar, so we have a great time playing songs together at home because I have a guitar that a member let my borrow.

This week I had something called Di4yu4 la1mian4. Literally translated that's "The pulled noodles from Hell." I had them with Da4 La4 (big spicy) and realized they weren't kidding. These noodles were scorchingly spicy. Seriously. They were so good though! Definitely one of the better things that I have had on the island. I give them 5 hellishly hot somethings out of 5. This week we also made some crazy sunday lunch with macaroni, this chinese milk flavored soup, little dough blobs, eggs and cheese powder. It was really not bad. I enjoyed it. That gets 3 crazy concoctions out of 5. Finally, I had some Passionfruit chua1bing1 with vanilla ice cream on top. The perfect way to cool down on the infernally hot days up here. 4 passionate pleasantries out of 5.

This week we have been working a lot with a new investigator who is absolutely golden. His name is Chen Chuan2Ren2 (chuan2bo1 de Chuan2 and ren2ai4 de ren2). He loves meeting with us and is keeping all the invites that we give to him. The other day, we ate at his family's firepot shop and it was amazing. Apparently, though his parents have no interest, they think that we are great and told us we can come back as often as we want to eat with them. I forgot about their shop in my food review, I would have to give it a 5 for sure because their Ma2la4 guo1 was amazing! Chuan2Ren2 should be moving steadily towards getting baptized on the 4th of june, but maybe a little sooner if he wants.

Finally, we also saw a huge miracle this week with a lady that we contacted on the street.
We were contacting all these people and I saw this one lady who was going to go into her apartment complex really fast. I shouted out, holding my book of mormon, "Can I introduce this book to you?" She stopped and said "Yeah!" I talked to her for at least twenty minutes on the side of the road, talking about prophets, the restoration and priesthood authority. She is Presbyterian and she was INTRIGUED at the idea of prophets and restoration. I asked if we could come by some other day and see her and her husband. She told me that she'd have to tell me later because she wasn't sure that her husband would be okay. I said that it was fine and that I would call her that night, then she asked, "well, do you have time to come up right now and talk to him?" I was so shocked and said yes. We went up and talked to the husband who is a French man, he wasn't as receptive, but the miracle was huge. She wants to learn more. It was a great answer to prayers.

Well, that's all from me. Big shoutout to Kyler who I hear is home and even taller now. Love you!
Elder Siebert