Mission Backup

  Time slips by so quickly here - I see it's been a couple of weeks since I've posted. Here was our travel day yesterday (which was supposed to be our P-Day): That includes 65km by car and 2km by bike. We rode to work, then drove President and Sister Fields to the High Speed Rail Station for a quick trip to Kaohsiung. Then we stopped at Costco to buy some items and pick up the Turners, who had bussed there. We took them home and then returned to the office. There, we found that the dryer we took to the Wufeng Elders on Friday was already not working. So, we headed out again. We first went to the Wufeng storage to get a working dryer and took that on to the Wufeng Elder's apartment. On the way home, we stopped at Panasonic (the shop that fixes our appliances) and dropped off the non-working dryer to be fixed again. While there, Sister Wells used her excellent Mandarin Chinese language skills to verify something I had unearthed in the office paperwork. It turns out that our s...

At long last, President Karl Fields and Sister Melanie Fields have joined us here in Taichung! After being released from their quarantine in Taipei (and a visit to the Taipei "Temple Square" and a few other sites), the APs drove them here to Taichung. We enjoyed a small soirée with them, in the mission office.  Elder Robert and Sister Gloria DeWitt, from Spanish Fork, Utah, were also released from quarantine here in Taichung. We enjoyed hosting them for a meal and to do some laundry, and after a quick visit to the office, they set off for their new home in Kaohsiung. They will be helping with missionary needs in the south, as well as helping with missionary health concerns mission-wide. Now we have a full complement of senior missionaries. A far cry from our early days here, when we were the only seniors in sight! We also attended the baptism of Zhiyun and Vic, the two youngsters we've been helping prepare for baptism. Zhiyun's baptism wasn't correct, so it needed...