Mission Backup

With the increased restrictions of Covid, baptisms were discontinued some time ago. Now, the level has been reduced, and baptisms are again being allowed. Saturday, Patricia was baptized. She was taught by the Wuquan 3rd Ward Elders, and others including Elder Anderson and Elder Stone. Elder Stone, who recently completed his mission, came down from Taipei to perform the baptism. We had never met Patricia Huang before the baptism, but found her to be a lovely, intelligent, and accomplished woman. She made brief remarks, telling how, when she moved to Taichung to take care of her mother, she drove by the church and had the feeling that she should learn more about it. She initiated contact, and gladly accepted the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ. Here are some pictures of the baptism and the soiree held afterward in the mission office. The missionaries sang "My Heavenly Father Loves Me" (Blue, Blue Sky) Elder Stone performed the baptism Patricia receives a little gift from Siste...

Saturday was P-Day, and it was pretty much a re-run of the previous one. We again traveled to Kaohsiung, again in the rain. It REALLY knows how to rain here! We began by visiting a chapel, where Sister Wells gave the Michigan Language Proficiency Test to one elder, who hopes to get into BYU-Hawaii. After that, we moved just items from place to place, rather than move a whole apartment as we did on our previous trip. Let's see... we replaced one broken dryer with a working one, picked up 5 broken bikes, one broken computer monitor and one broken air conditioner. And, we took a good bike to a sister who got hers stolen this week.  Those sisters gave us a "goodie bag" with some snacks for the trip home, which was nice. My phone decided it didn't want to take a charge anymore, and Sister Wells' phone died, so we had to navigate the last bit of our journey unassisted by GPS. We made it! Driving in Taiwan is an adventure. I get lost (even with GPS), and make mistakes li...