Our legs are feeling it!

After a busy week of office work, we did some sightseeing this weekend! On Saturday (our P-Day), we visited the Paochueh Temple, which is only a few blocks from our apartment. It is home to a huge Buddha statue, 27’ tall!

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From this Buddhist temple, we walked a half mile to the Taichung Confucius Temple. Here, Debbie is posing on the pedestrian overpass as we arrived at the Confucius temple complex in Taichung.

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Young women come to pose at the Confucius temple in Taichung. Some were there apparently for wedding engagement photos, others for "glam" shots.

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The shrine to the "greatly perfected sagely teacher" Confucius, in the Taichung Confucius temple.

In the 3rd ward on Sunday, the Chen family spoke, including their cute 3-year old. All three were very good talks. Sister “Torry” Chen told how she had been baptized at age 14 (by President Card!) and was immediately called to serve in the Sunbeam class. She has since served in every non-priesthood calling, and is a super sister. She recalled how, when she was called to be the Relief Society president as an unmarried 30 year old, one of the sisters criticized her for wearing open-toed shoes. She did not get defensive and offended, but rather changed for some other shoes of which this sister would approve.

The Chen's invited us to dinner, and we enjoyed a delicious meal with them and the Bishop and his family. After dinner, we rode the bus back to the church and then walked home by way of the Taichung Martyrs Shrine. It is a beautiful shrine close by the Taichung Confucius temple. We took a few pictures:

  

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