Elder Hagedorn: Week 7 (last week in the transfer...)

Hello my good family and friends!

To start off, I'm an uncle!!!! Heather and Kael I love you guys and you're going to be some totally rad parents. Tell little Sammy his uncle Bobby says hello!

Let's see this last week has been pretty awesome. We've found some amazing new families and we really feel we can help them out a little via baptism. One family has been living next door to a member family for about 8 years and has slowly opened up to the Gospel and just this last week at the member's family home evening they were there and we happened to be there so we felt we should try and set up with them (despite 8 years worth of other missionaries fails) and they set up!! We were like oh ok we understand... Wait really? Well how about next Monday for family home evening?! They're awesome. We gave them the "first lesson" (God & prayer. Most people aren't familiar with Christian beliefs really) and it was terrific. Wang Family, they're winners.

We also found another family, Liang family and they are also pretty great. Had so many questions when we taught them and we just took them to the good ol' scriptures to answer each one and they were like "ooooh.... ok that makes sense" they're genuinely interested and we've set up to meet them every Saturday. So we have the Liang family every Saturday and the Wang family every Monday. It's really nice having some consistent set ups! We've been super busy this past week. Here's a good quote from the missionaries of Zhubei/Xinfeng (The 2 cities of our area) ,"You know you're busy when your lunch becomes your backup plan." Haha oh man that has really been the story recently. You all should see my planner. That thing is pretty beat. I'm going to be buying a 4 color pen today in order to try and be more organized cause right now I just have these little things written everywhere in it and sometimes I need a Urim and Thummim to translate it.

One day we just grabbed some baozis (little bread rolls with meat and veggies inside them) stuffed them into a bag and put them in our buckets on the back of our bikes. Then while on the way to an appointment, each stoplight we'd hit we'd hurry and take them out and just stuff them into our mouths and each as much as possible. We wolfed down about 15 rolls in 3 stoplights. Hahaha yep.

Another funny thing is a few days ago I went on exchanges with Elder Orchard to the Zhubei area. He had planned for us "The Heart of Zhubei Project". Which was going into the very middle of the city and knocking at some apartment buildings. It was TOO funny. I'll just share one experience. So we're walking and knocking on doors and we come to a door where the door is glassy so we can see through it clearer if we're close. As we're stepping closer to the door we can tell there's someone on the couch so we start just saying "hello!" and "we're sharing a family message!" and other such missionary talk. As we get closer we can see the guy totally just sprawled out on the couch with his hands behind his head and just looks so comfortable. He's got the TV on and he's watching a movie. Elder Orchard goes "Oh man this guy looks so comfortable, he's got Planet of the Apes on." So we just say "Sorry to bother you have a good night!" and go to the next door. Hahaha it was terribly funny at the time. We were cracking up. Probably not funny now but hey I'm a missionary so my humor is probably a bit off.

Oh also just got an email from my mission president... I can email friends now! So if you want to email me feel free to send me one!Robert.Hagedorn@myldsmail.net. Love to hear from all of you.

Well I love you all and miss you. I"m doing well so need to worry about me, this is tough work sometimes but hey missionary life ain't bad at all.

Goodbye! Or how the locals say it here Zai Jian! Zhu nimen wan an!

Trying to find an investigator at the Lantern Festival. Way too many people!