Hi Everyone!
This week has been a crazy one full of different emotions. On Monday, I dropped Sister Smith off at the Mission Home. She moved down to Zhang Hua, which is right below Taizhong.
We also said goodbye to Elder Moh, who has finished his mission and was going home. It was weird and a little sad to say goodbye to half our area. Sister Smith was a great trainer. She made sure I had everything I needed to survive in Taiwan. Her jokes and sarcastic comments kept me from getting too down when things got difficult. Elder Moh, as Sister Smith said, is 'sunshine and all good things personified'. He was always laughing, which made us all laugh too. It's sad that the Taiwan Taizhong mission no longer has him as a missionary.
For the next few days, I stayed with the Sister Training Leaders in Tanzi while I waited for the new trainees to arrive. It was a weird few days. I was in a sort of limbo- no area, no companion, lots of stress to come but nothing to really stress about in the moment. The Trainees arrived at the mission home Tuesday night, had instruction and stuff Wednesday, and then we picked them up on Thursday. On Wednesday they ask some of the closer Zone Leaders and Sister Training Leaders to come take the missionaries out for an hour to go contacting for the very first time. Since I was with the Sister Training Leaders, I got to tag along. I ended up being paired with the two Taiwanese sisters in the group. We had a good time walking around and talking to everyone.
The next day we went back to the mission home to pick up my new companion. There's a Chinese tradition of putting money and small gifts in a red envelope for the New Year and for special occasions like weddings. The Tehs had a red envelope for each trainee, and they had them come up one by one to open the envelope and find out who their trainer would be. I think that was the most stressful five minutes of my life. After a long time of waiting, my new companion is.... Sister Wu! Here's a picture:
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