Happy New Years!

Hey everyone!
This week brought the new year and awesome new investigators! More on that in a little bit.

Food:Beef and Chicken Tacos: We got invited over to a member's house this week and they made some amazing Mexican food for us. They have lived in the states and told us they figured that we would probably really enjoy the stuff. I know that it's not really a new food for me, but it was still really good. 5 Marvelous Mexicanos out of 5.
Honey Tea: I was in Danshui this weekend and ChuanRen insisted on getting me some warm honey tea to drink. It was really good. The honey here a lot more fragrant, a little more like a flower tea, so it was super refreshing, 4 hankerings for honey out of 5.

Verbatim: Peas are small and green! --Elder Kasparian on Peas and Green (mung) beans
Jie4 wo3 ni3 de bi3zi3 (Let me borrow your nose!) --ChuanRen regarding what I could do to clean off my bike tool

I forgot to tell you all about a guy that I contacted last week. I talked to him and asked if we could share with him sometime and he was like, how about right now? I said sure and we went to his house with him right then. I was thinking to myself that this was the best miracle I had ever seen. It was certainly the first time that I had ever had someone that I contacted on the street drive a couple blocks to his house and let us in. We went up and he told us that we could chat in his room. We went in there and it was the most insane collection of "airsoft" guns that I have ever seen. All the walls were mounted with racks and there were over two hundred guns. However, as i started looking a little closer, I realized that a good number of them were real guns. I was freaked out. He then pulled out what I would call an "anarchist cookbook" and told us how you could probably get arrested for having this book and showed us how it teaches you to make everything from pipe bombs to mustard gas. At this point I am panicking and thinking "I just contacted Crazyville!" I'm trying to go when he picks up one of the guns and shows us how it's bolt action and real and all and I pretty much just told him we had to go and ran out of there. It was pretty much one of the more intense moments in my mission.

This week I saw an amazing miracle out of this world. I was walking along and I saw an older lady pushing her grandson in his stroller. I had this subtle impression to talk to her. I offered a family message. She stopped immediately and accepted it. I talked to her for a moment and asked if we could come back later. For some reason I felt like I should ask her if we could come back that same day. She said that after five o-clock she would gladly have us over. I told her that would be awesome and we set up the time. We went over and she was amazing. She told us how she had seen missionaries forever and always thought that we were great but had never had a chance to talk to us. She told us yesterday that she thinks that it's a miracle that we came into her life because she thinks that it's definitely because God wants her and her family to learn something important right now. It was the greatest feeling to have that miracle in my life because I realized once again how God can prepare anyone for the gospel. It is just too good to be true, but it is true.

I think that's about all from me folks! I hope that as you make your resolutions this year, you resolve to write me more!
Love,
Elder Siebert