Transfer 8 - Week 3

This transfer is flying by! It's the start of week 4 and I still feel like I just got here! I guess being in my last area for 5 transfers makes a few weeks seem really short. 

This last week I was with another companion for most of the time because my companion, Elder Nasman, was living at the mission office with a sick missionary, in order to give the sick missionary's companion time outside. So it was an interesting week exchanging back and forth from Taipei, about 2 hours to travel by bus and train. I would like to report some miracles but I think this week passed rather normally. 

At church, like 3 members gave us boxes of cake to take home if that counts as a miracle! It's definitely the little things. Having cake for dinner last night was pretty great. Right now we've got 3 main investigators. Little Bro Xu, who will be getting baptized Christmas. And then there's Bruce and Allen who are both pretty cool guys, though progress slower but Elder Nasman and I both feel that they already believe it's true, just a little hesitant to make the change. I'll keep you updated. Other highlights of the week... An old member in our ward thought I was Philippino! The way he said it made me unsure whether it was a compliment or an insult. (There's a little bad blood between Taiwan and the Philippines lately apparently) I told him I was half Taiwanese and that made him happy so we're good there. 

Taiwan is great. We've knocked as many doors as ever and there's as many stray, possibly rabid, dogs as ever. It's great. I love you all and hope your Christmas season is going wonderfully!

Met a cool guy who builds stuff right out of his garage! He also had a license plate from Utah on his wall!

Transfer 8 - Week 2

This week was pretty... "the usual". 

We found a new investigator who's really cool though. His name is Allen and he lives in YingGe. He works selling jewelry and is easy on the eyes so he probably does really well selling jewelry haha. We met with him at a little sushi store and talked to him about the Bible over some super tasty and super cheap sushi. He brought along with him his Bible and he had highlighted Hebrews 11:6 so we talked about that and how important it is to develop a relationship with God. It was a really good lesson and we're pretty excited about him! 

There is another companionship that live with us and one of them has been sick the past 2 weeks about, so this next week we're going to switch off babysitting him so his companion can get outside. Should be fun. We have an investigator who will be getting baptized on Christmas so that should be awesome! His dad is a less active and his whole family just started coming back to church! It's amazing! We're very happy about them and excited the son will be getting baptized on Christmas. 

Looking forward to the next week! We have a couple of missionary conference meetings so it should be fun! 

Love,

Elder Hagedorn

Yep. Biking down a windy road and both sides look like this

Knocking some doors down an alleyway. 

will learn how to play by the end of my mission! Thanks Mom! It works really well! 

YingGe

Transfer 8 - Week 1

Hello! This last week was my first full week in Bade, my new area with my new companion, Elder Nasman. It was wonderful! We visited many members and many were gracious enough to feed us! We even got fed on Thanksgiving! Though at the time I didn't realize it was Thanksgiving, the dumplings were just as good! 

Currently, we have only 1 progressing investigator so we have some work to do. We have many members willing to help us, but the main problem is not having any investigators to be helped out with. We want to go down to another city called YingGe, which is about a 20 minute bike ride east of our area and this city is actually famous for pottery so there are many tourists. We went there last night to contact and familiarize ourselves with the area and it's actually a beautiful little town. The road with all of the pottery shops lined on it is very charming, I'll have to get some pictures for you all next week. We want to focus on YingGe because no one ever goes there, because it's kind of out of the way and riding back is uphill. Also our area has 2 sets of Elders so one of us can unofficially be "YingGe Elders" and the other set can stick with Bade. But we figure we're kind of building up our area right now so why not go there and see what hidden treasures lie in wait! The weather has gotten surprisingly cold lately and biking at night will become a memorable experience. 

Thinking of investing in a thicker jacket, but also not wanting to take away from the memorability of my future memories. I'll probably go with the thicker jacket. Things are going well and I'm quite content with everything right now. Excited to get things going around here. Met someone in a park a few days ago playing basketball. Asked him if I made a 3 pointer, he would listen to us. I then shot and airballed big time. Or as my dad would say "Air Monster". Realized my basketball skills have become rather offensive. Asked if he would listen anyway and he said yes. Taught him about the Book of Mormon and he said he would check it out. We'll see if we can't get in touch with him. 

Thank you for all of the prayers! Have a wonderful Christmas season! 

Love,

Elder Hagedorn

Me and a couple of my other investigators before I left! Lyndon on the left and a new investigator, Brother Lu on the right. (New investigator, second time meeting him. Gospel hasn't quite changed him yet thus the no smile haha) 

Cleaning our apartment and Elder Lackey found an old rain jacket's hood. I was wearing a cowboy hat while taking this picture. 

Went to the temple Saturday for a tour with an investigator and JJ came with us! She's an RC and she's awesome. Super hipster. 

Transfer 7 - Week 6

Hey everyone! Happy Thanksgiving!! I MOVED!! I am now in Bade, Taoyuan. It's a few cities south of my last area Xinzhuang so it's still pretty close though this area is a little more countryside and I really like it. The air is cleaner and there's some rice fields :) My new companion is Elder Nasman, from Finland and he just got finished being trained so it'll be fun to work with him. We already get along really well and it's going to be a super great transfer. We also have two other Elders in our same apartment so it's pretty fun stuff. One of the other new Elders was actually in my last District, Elder Weng, so it's nice that we could come together. It's going to be super fun! Actually two days ago one of their investigators got baptized, my 2nd day in the area and it turned out they hadn't really set up much of it so that was a little hectic as I was trying to figure out who to call, where the chapel is and how to start the water heater in the chapel for the baptismal water, etc. It's already been an adventure for sure haha. Super excited to be here in Bade. 

We were able to find a couple new investigators since I've been here so that's been awesome. They both seem really good. We definitely have a lot of building up to do investigators wise. Time to hit the streets! 

Love you all and hope Thanksgiving is wonderful! I'm so thankful for all of your support and love!  

One of my long time investigators in Xinzhuang. Miss this guy! 

The Xinzhuang chapel! And some cats in the bottom left that are always hanging out by the church.

Me and a couple of my other investigators before I left! Lyndon on the left and a new investigator, Brother Lu on the right. (New investigator, second time meeting him. Gospel hasn't quite changed him yet thus the no smile haha) 

Transfer 7 - Week 5

A few things that happened this week. First is we met some crazy lady that Elder Leo is convinced is some sort of witch haha. She ran into one of our members on the street saying she's looking for a church, but doesn't speak any Chinese so he called us and we met up with her the next day. So we meet her and she's Asian, she looks the same as everyone else, so when she came up to us asking if we're the missionaries in slightly broken, Southern accent English, I was completely caught off guard! I asked her what her mother tongue and when she said English I was again surprised because her English wasn't very good... Anyways we meet her and she starts rambling on about some pretty random crazy stuff, such as something she calls "Spiritual Socialism" saying we are all one soul and there is no male or female or something. I was completely fascinated by this lady and still trying to figure out what she's all about. I understood every word she said but failed to get any meaning out of it. We taught her about the Restoration and the lesson wasn't too bad. Luckily, because she's an English speaker, she'll go as a referral to the English ward over in Taipei. Why Elder Leo thought she was a witch, I don't know. But she was definitely an interesting person. 

Second is one of our good friends, a less active church member, Maxwell took us out to a super nice restaurant because we told him one of us will be moving this coming Friday. Oh right this is the last week of the transfer and so Elder Leo and I will be getting new companions Friday! But Maxwell took us to a 5 course meal!! He's a boss. Currently with our investigators, everyone's baptismal date is on Christmas. We want to have a white Christmas!!!!!! So we'll see what happens there, pretty excited. Love you all!

Love,

Elder Hagedorn

Henry last P-Day! That's a mini little art exhibit in Danshui, north Taiwan, behind us.

dinner! Caprese!! My favorite!! 

Us and Maxwell at the restaurant! Super good!!! Man my eyes! Guess I'm turning Asian! 

Transfer 7 - Week 4

Hit my 1 year mark last week! Crazy. Some other crazy things that happened are we found a new investigator who went to Oxford and his wife is a member from Tonga and they have 4 kids! They live up on the mountain in Linkou so we biked up there (death every time) and met with them a few days ago. We discussed with him about God, touched upon the subjects of evolution, the big bang theory and even Christ in general and Richard Dawkin's view on the subject. We talked about a lot of things and the whole thing was actually pretty nice to switch up from the normal lesson of teaching someone how to pray (most people here don't know how to pray because they all have Buddhist background) though teaching someone how to pray is good too. So we had a rather intellectual stimulating discussion about it all and at the end we simply said our message is spiritual and so the only way to really find out is a spiritual one so that starts with prayer. He was a little hesitant but we feel in time he'll be willing to try it out. 

Things are going well in Xinzhuang and Elder Leo and I only have about a week and a half left together. So sad! Excited for this coming week and hope all of you have a great week too! Love you all.

Elder Hagedorn

Transfer 7 - Week 3

Hello good people! Don't know if any of you heard but there was an earthquake in Taiwan a few days ago! It was actually pretty awesome! And then it was scary as it got bigger but then it stopped so it was awesome again haha. At the time we were teaching someone at their house on the fifth floor so when the earthquake came, the whole building was swaying a little bit and it was just like in the movie, where all the little things on the shelves are shaking around you know? The first second it was just a tiny little shake, hardly noticeable, but then after a couple seconds it got to be pretty powerful and then for a second in my head, I was like,"See ya Elder Leo I'm outta here!" Haha but luckily it only lasted a few seconds.

The other night we were out contacting on the street and we ran into some guy at a stoplight so we get him to pullover on his scooter and start talking to him and he says he's interested about religion and why we're different from other Christians and stuff so we tell him we don't have much time right now because we have an appointment, but come to church on Sunday and you can learn more. So he says ok and then yesterday he came! A miracle! He said he really liked church and whenever I looked over at him he'd be attentively paying attention and he also said he wants to come back next week too! It was very cool to follow the promptings of the Spirit while we were contacting and talk to him by getting him to pullover. 

We have another investigator, Lin Jian Hong, or Henry, who really wants to get baptized, but because he is going to dangbing(Taiwanese army, Every young man has to serve for a certain period of time) he won't get weekends off until a few weeks go by so his baptism will most likely be postponed until he can come to church regularly. I hit my year mark this week and it's pretty crazy! Also my nephew is getting surgery so pray for him! Love you Sammy! 

Love,

Elder Hagedorn

Transfer 7 - Week 2

This week was good! The weather is cooling down and in the mornings it's actually almost cold! At least to the Taiwanese people haha. Most people now are wearing jackets, but my companion and I, being the audacious and rambunctious young missionaries we are, are still rocking the short sleeves. 

Two days ago, Brother Lin got baptized! It was a good service and afterwards we all headed to the kitchen to eat some grub. It was nice for him to be able to meet and converse with more of the ward members in a relaxed setting. The food wasn't bad either haha. Don't know if any of you remember Linkou, but we finally went up there for the first time in a while! It was Elder Leo's first time biking up the hill so you know he had a good time. Takes about 30 minutes to bike up the hill if you don't stop so it's a pretty good climb. Upon getting to the top, we were able to meet with a former investigator in his home and he's a cool guy! We hope to continue to meet with him and hopefully get him to come to church this coming week!

I really apologize that my weekly updates are rather bland but I simply can't think of much to say. I'm doing well and hope everything is going well for you all too! Love you!

Love,

Elder Hagedorn

Where we went last P-Day! 

Brother Lin's baptism! 

Some of the people who attended his baptism! 

Transfer 7 - Week 3

Hello good people! 

Don't know if any of you heard but there was an earthquake in Taiwan a few days ago! It was actually pretty awesome! And then it was scary as it got bigger but then it stopped so it was awesome again haha. At the time we were teaching someone at their house on the fifth floor so when the earthquake came, the whole building was swaying a little bit and it was just like in the movie, where all the little things on the shelves are shaking around you know? The first second it was just a tiny little shake, hardly noticeable, but then after a couple seconds it got to be pretty powerful and then for a second in my head, I was like,"See ya Elder Leo I'm outta here!" Haha but luckily it only lasted a few seconds.

The other night we were out contacting on the street and we ran into some guy at a stoplight so we get him to pullover on his scooter and start talking to him and he says he's interested about religion and why we're different from other Christians and stuff so we tell him we don't have much time right now because we have an appointment, but come to church on Sunday and you can learn more. So he says ok and then yesterday he came! A miracle! He said he really liked church and whenever I looked over at him he'd be attentively paying attention and he also said he wants to come back next week too! It was very cool to follow the promptings of the Spirit while we were contacting and talk to him by getting him to pullover. 

We have another investigator, Lin Jian Hong, or Henry, who really wants to get baptized, but because he is going to dangbing(Taiwanese army, Every young man has to serve for a certain period of time) he won't get weekends off until a few weeks go by so his baptism will most likely be postponed until he can come to church regularly. I hit my year mark this week and it's pretty crazy! Also my nephew is getting surgery so pray for him! 

Love you Sammy! 

Love,

Elder Hagedorn

Found this wee little guy last P-Day at Shifen! I really liked him. Hehe

Made a little lantern thing last P-Day! Like in Tangled! Man using a brush to write characters is hard!! 

Transfer 7 - Week 1

A pretty good week to start off the new transfer! For P-Day we went to a place where they have this ski lift type of thing and you ride it over a few little mountains and the scenery ain't too bad. I'll send a couple pictures. One of the exciting things is one of our investigators is getting baptized next week! His name is Lin Hong Kun and he's a really good guy. Was going to get baptized last month but wasn't quite ready then so now he's all good and getting baptized! Pretty happy for him! 

Lyndon's parents are still not quite willing to let him get baptized so we're continuing to see him in hope of his parents allowing him. We have another new investigator, Henry, he's really cool and we see him about twice a week. His baptismal date is November 3rd so we think he should be able to hit that date and we're pretty excited for him. I really do apologize for a lack of  any picture, especially of investigators... I

 will do better this coming week I promise! Well I love you all and hope Fall is treating you well! 

Love,

Elder Hagedorn

me an Adventure Time cup! My favorite!

All of us at the Gondola!

Colt and I! I've kind of got a bit of a double chin...

Transfer 6 - Week 6

Last week of the transfer! A cool thing that happened is that an area in our District closed down, North Xinzhuang, so there are no longer Elders there. So that means Elder Leo and I are now over all of Xinzhuang and not just the south so that's some fun stuff. Just a lot of biking! And it also combined us to form a really big district with a neighboring city so we got a new district and new area so it's pretty fun! We've had a few fun P-days recently so I'll also attach some of those pictures. 

Investigators wise, Lyndon is still awesome and still "shuai" (Chinese word meaning handsome, hot, good-looking or downright debonair) as ever but his parents are very traditional in their Buddhist beliefs and do not want him to get baptized. So we hope someday they will allow him to get baptized. Another investigator, Brother Lin, will probably be getting baptized in a couple weeks. He had just been struggling with some of the commandments but now he doesn't have a problem and has been good for a few weeks so in a couple more weeks he'll be ready to be baptized! He's pretty awesome. 

Watched conference this last weekend and it was spectacular! My favorite talk was Christofferson's "The Moral Force of Woman". A pretty good week to end the transfer off and excited to start another transfer! Crazy that Elder Leo and I are halfway through! We definitely have some good times... Got in a water fight the other night in our apartment. Hahaha we definitely have fun. 

Love you all and hope all is well! 

Transfer 6 - Week 5

Hello! It was a good week! Highlights of the week are probably that we're going to convert a whole college. Ha no just kidding but we have about 10 investigators and 7 of them are college students! They are all pretty chill too. Lyndon's parents still oppose a tiny bit but we fasted with him this past weekend to try and soften his parents hearts a bit so we're seeing him tomorrow night and will follow up! He's a man-beast. 

I apologize, I keep forgetting to take pictures... A funny thing happened though. At a fireside, a foreign exchange student said the closing prayer and him, not being a member, said it a bit differently. I think he is from Russia or something I'm not sure. Oh and he doesn't speak Chinese so he just said it in English. It went something like this,"Close your eyes people. Glorious God! We, gathered here today, have come here tonight for one joint purpose. To glorify thee and praise thee! Mighty God, we love you. We thank you. We fear you. Forgive us our wicked sins and forget our dark trespasses. Of this we pray in the name of the almighty being, your Son, Jesus Christ, Jehovah. Amen." It was a strange, but yet still oddly eloquent prayer. 

After opening my eyes I didn't really know what to think. And no one else paid any attention to it either because they all spoke Chinese and didn't notice a difference, they were just listening for the "amen". Anyways it was kind of interesting and made me laugh inside just because I probably had a funny expression on. 

It was a very good week and right now it's hard to think of specifics so sorry! Wasn't able to watch conference because we have to wait another week due to the translation. I love you all and hope the conference can remain in your minds throughout it!

 

Love,

Elder Hagedorn

Transfer 6 - Week 4

Hello everyone! 

Had a cool experience last night. We were biking down the road last night and I saw a family so I was like ,"Family! Gotta talk to them!" so I pulled off to the side to talk to them and it turns out they are members! Started talking to them and apparently baptized about 7 years ago and they said the last time they came to church was about a year ago so we chatted for a bit and they told me where they live and gave me their number! Hope we can meet up with them this week and get them back to church! 

Another funny thing this week was while teaching English class I turn to the lesson of the week and it's on prepositional phrases. The first thought that comes to my head is ,"Oh shoot, what are those again?" And the second thought ,"How do I teach this in Chinese? Does Chinese have prepositional phrases?" Haha so needless to say it was a fun English class. 

Investigators wise, are number 1 investigator right now is probably Lyndon. He's 18 years old and really wants to get baptized but his parents don't want him to get baptized so this c we'll be fasting for him and his parents and he will fast too! We're really hoping that he'll be able to get baptized cause he wants to so bad and is a really cool guy. As always, we do a lot of finding everyday. So basically, riding on our bikes down the street and just talking to people about the Gospel. 


Not a bad week! Man my emails are so short but I just can't think of stuff to write! Love you all!

Something awkward about this photo. Probably a combination of my own awkwardness and Elder Leo's photo skills.

Me doing what I do and making some meat and grilling up some zhuabings (Chinese tortillas basically).

Transfer 6 - Week 2

Hey hey hey! 

I'll try and keep my emails less broad and more specific to details I've decided so here it goes. This week wasn't too bad though we got stood up a good amount of times so that's about average. One cool thing that happened though was the other day we were heading out to go contacting and that day I was just really really praying in my head and literally the only thing that had been on my mind was finding a new person to teach and just kept praying that we could find someone. So we left the apartment and started biking down the street to the area we wanted to go to. 

We passed a sidestreet and I had the thought "go down there" and I immediately thought "is this where we're supposed to go?" I hesitated for a second or two because we were going downhill and to turn around, especially in Taiwanese traffic, is a little tricky. So I told Elder Leo hey let's check out that road back there and we turned around back up the hill and turned onto the street. At the end of the street we found our man. He was sitting on his scooter watching some construction workers a distance off and so we just pulled up next to him and started talking to him. 

We got talking about God and it turns out he's Christian but doesn't know too much about it. We asked if we could meet with him sometime and could teach him more about Jesus Christ and His church and he said ya! So we're seeing him tonight at the church! It was pretty cool. 

Another thing about this week is I've decided to be a crazy person basically. Haha meaning I study like crazy and when we're out working I've decided I just want to work like crazy and be super diligent. So I kind of renewed my Chinese Study and have started reading a lot out of the Book of Mormon (Chinese) everyday. Used to read about a chapter but now I average about 20 pages. So it's really helped my Chinese and in terms of missionary work it's also helped! Like that one guy we found. I think diligence stems from desire and recently I've just had some weird desire to be better so that's what I'm trying to do. 

Maybe it's because I've also been out for a year and am turning 20 and am having some sort of a mid life crisis. But regardless, it feels good haha. Not saying that I'm chasing people down and declaring that they must repent or anything extreme like that but just really, really seeking to have the Spirit and trying to make it so there shouldn't be any reason not to have it. Don't know if this last part made sense! Anyway love you guys and know that I'm still having fun no worries! Today we're going to the zoo! I hear they have a penguin exhibit so I'm pretty stoked. I'll make sure to nab some pictures. Love you all!

 

Love,

Elder Hagedorn

Went on a hike with two of the zones here! Took up most of Friday! Went on a hike up in the mountains with a bunch of the missionaries and the President and got some spiritual training.

 

Flipping monster spider! In australian accent "look at the size of that creature!"

Transfer 6 - Week 1

Hello!

 

This last week my companion and I were during our weekly service at a "rest home" type of place that blind people can go to live and have activities and things like that. We were there for our weekly routine of just helping out however we can, this time setting up for an anniversary party they would be having the next day. Us missionaries and a few other volunteers were there, one of them, seemed to stick out a bit so we struck up a conversation with him while setting up chairs and such. His name is Aker, Brother Lu, and he's a college student, attending the college that sits atop the glorious "Linkou Hill", studying tourism. He's a cool guy. While at service, we chatted with him a little bit and ended up scribbling down his phone number before we left because we had some things come up that we had to get to quickly. I called him the next day and he said he was busy at the moment but would get back to me. Terrific. A few days later, on Sunday, I was sitting at my desk during dinner time and feeling, possibly overwhelmed, or unmotivated, or whatever the feeling was I wasn't quite sure. But I was just sitting there at my desk, having finished dinner. I had the thought to call some referrals so I did and about 5 in a row didn't pick up so I didn't think much of it. One ended up calling back but wasn't very interested in talking to missionaries. I set the phone back down on my desk and continued to just sit, feeling slightly uneasy/antsy because we hadn't gotten much done in terms of measurable success. I said a quick one second prayer consisting of "Help us out" and then a few seconds after that Aker called and asked if we still wanted to meet with him. We then met with him 15 minutes later at the church and taught him about prayer and the Book of Mormon. He's willing to read and said he would start reading and praying. I think God is sometimes just waiting for us to try a little bit and put forth some effort, then, recognizing we need His help, he helps us the rest of the way. As usual, I'm a little tired and no more thoughts seem to be coming to my head so I'll leave that as the email for this week. I love you all and have just now realized an absence of the use of exclamation points so I'll use a few here now! I hope everything is going well for all of you!

 

Love,

Elder Hagedorn!

My son!

Sister Boyer is moving so we had to grab a few pictures!

Sister Boyer is moving so we had to grab a few pictures!

Transfer 5 - Week 6

Hello! 

Crazy my 5th transfer is over and I'll be training again! I kind of wanted to leave Xinzhuang just to see a different place but I guess there's still stuff I need to do here! Another two transfers of being a father (training-missionary slang) and being district leader will definitely be some work but it should be fun! 

This last week I think it rained everyday so it was a great welcome to Taiwan for my new companion, Elder Leo. He's pretty cool and you'll all get to know him more throughout my emails. Forgot to get a picture of him... sorry... Actually forgot to get any pictures at all this week! Sorry! It was just SUPER busy! 

Yesterday at church, I think I was the most tired I've ever been on my mission and that's saying something. I was trying so hard to stay awake in church. I could hardly think. Probably going to try and take a nap today for P-day, that would be nice. In terms of our investigators, Nick is still doing well and we're working with him. We have a few others who aren't too bad either. We just really need some new investigators so this coming week we're going to be finding all the time!! It'll be great. 

Hopefully it doesn't rain as much this week because last week it ended up in the cancelling of a good amount of appointments and stuff so hopefully this week will be a bit better! Sorry this week's email is short and there aren't pictures but I don't have too much time! Things are going well! Love you all!

 

Love,

Elder Hagedorn

Transfer 5 - Week 5

Hello my wonderful family and friends! 

Honestly speaking, this last week was a bit rough haha. But it's not too bad! First off we were not able to get in touch with Brother Lin (Cookies. We call him Cookies cause he would always give us cookies) so that was too bad because he didn't make his baptismal date but I'm thinking he'll turn up. Secondly, there was another typhoon this week! So you know what that means, yep another day stuck inside! But we ended up cleaning our apartment pretty hardcore so now it's pretty nice :) Also both Elder Morgan and I's bikes broke this week on different days so we had to "scooter" our bikes across the city to the nearest bike store in the crazy traffic of Xinzhuang, Taiwan. (It's insane, trust me.) I'll have to get a picture of it or something. So we scootered our bikes acoss the city to the nearest bike store only to learn that what we needed was a brand specific part so we then had to scooter in the opposite direction basically and go to the other bike store! It was hot outside and I was definitely sweating big time, but in hindsight, I realize that I was sweating like a flipping GREASE MONKEY OUT THERE!! But it was fun. And then another thing happened is that while on exchanges, Elder Morgan accidentally typed our phone passcode wrong a few times so our phone restarted or whatever and we can't use it for 5 days so that was too bad but it was pretty funny. He was pretty down on himself cause it was hard to get hold of investigators and such but it will definitely be fun to bring this event back up with him in the future. Another sweet thing that happened is we went to a boy band concert! Oh ya! Our church has a boy band apparently called "Beyond 5" and they are doing a tour of Asia so our church sponsored them to come to Taiwan and do some concerts in some of the churches here. So we went to the one up in Taipei with our investigator Nick and it was pretty rad! Definitely made me miss good ol' N'Sync. Oh I forgot I'll be training again!! So that should be pretty fun. I'll also be staying in Xinzhuang so I'm going to be like the father figure of Xinzhuang, it'll be great. It was definitely a week full of adventures. And the work is slowly progressing as well! It's crazy, I turn 20 next month! I'm going to be so old sheesh. 

Anyway, I love you all!

 

Love,

Elder Hagedorn

Our shoes kind of get wet a lot so we make do haha.

At the Beyond 5 Concert with our peeps from Xinzhuang!

A few of us from my MTC district at the Beyond 5 concert!

On exchanges with one of the Zone Leaders, Elder Forbes. It was raining so we whipped out our rain gear and this is what he had bahahaha. First thought when I saw him was 'Zone Overlord Forbes" It practically has a cape!

My planner on a normal day! Trying to start to write in Chinese more :D