Star Power in Taipei

Hey everyone!
This week brought with it more heat, but it has been mostly bearable throughout. We were blessed to be able to hear from both Ray E. Jensen of the Presidency of the Seventy in mission conference and also Elder Bednar in our stake conference. It was an amazing experience. Those men have some serious spiritual power.

The Chinese has been getting better and better recently. I translate for my companion sometimes. Someday, my chinese might just get as good as my older brother's, but I am not gonna hold my breath on that one.

We found out that there are many things in Taiwan that you can't eat right now. Obviously fish right now will probably cause your belly button to grow an arm, but also included are many sorts of drinks that you might buy at the store. Basically the only think that I am sure is safe is water. (All female readers should just skip to the next paragraph here). This includes stuff that you put in shaved ice. I found out the jellies that I like are suspected to actually make your down unders shrink. One of our new members told me when he saw me eating them. I asked him what I should do then, he told me that he could eat them because "he had nothing to worry about because he had surplus." I nearly died. Hee hee.

This week we were supposed to have an investigator do his baptismal interview but he got sick so he couldn't. It was a bit of bummer. He's really good though. When I ran an intense mock interview on him, he answered everything and all of my deep follow up questions. He even answered some questions that I thought of before I even asked them. It was amazing how well the Lord prepared him to receive the gospel. We were simply in the right place at the right time to happen to run into him and talk to him. I honestly thought that he looked too young and almost passed him up, but Elder Chiu started talking to him and look what happened! The Lord will always work miracles!

I love you all!
Elder Siebert

P.S. Grandma Honey, thanks for all the mail! Also, thanks to everyone else who faithful writes me. For all who don't, well, that's what repenting is for.