Elder Hagedorn: Transfer 5

It was a good week! Definitely were able to pick it up a bit from last week because some investigators got back from out of town and have more time.

One of our investigators, who is actually from Africa and doesn't even speak Chinese is Ronnie. He lives in Linkou, a city on a hill above Xinzhuang. A few miles up the hill. So after a few lessons fell through Elder Morgan decided to head up there earlier so we could contact and stuff up there. So we biked up the hill and I can proudly say I didn't stop once! That hill is a beast! Took us 25 minutes to get up there. By the time we got up, it looked like we had literally just jumped into a pool. We were completely soaked in sweat! It was marvelous! I felt pretty accomplished haha.

As we continued biking afterward I did the Lance Armstrong fist pump celebration thing. We met up with our investigator and his friend was waiting for us too! We talked to our new friend Peter a little bit about the Book of Mormon and he's willing to meet with us! The Lord blesses those who are willing to bike up long hills I guess! But it was a really good week! We're making with some great people right now and we're excited for them. Brother Lin is working on quitting tea right now and his faith is so strong! We taught him the Word of Wisdom about 2 weeks ago and he's gone from drinking a lot everyday, like 15 glasses he said, to just one cup every few days! And that will go to none soon! We're very excited for him he's awesome! We are working on finding new investigators because some of our investigators right now are a bit stubborn and don't want to progress but it's ok! All in due time. But keep us in your prayers that we can find some new investigators!

I'm working on reading the Book of Mormon in Chinese and it's pretty tricky! I'm right now at 2 Nephi 7 and it's pretty interesting reading the scriptures in a different language. You get different meaning out of it sometimes, it's really cool! Today for P-day we want to go to this Titanic exhibit over in Taibei so we're pretty excited. It's going to be pretty sweet. Also one of my buddies "Colt", Brother Wu is going to America soon! He's going to Provo for part of his visit and I told him to go to my family's cafe so maybe you can meet him! He's the bee's knees. Look out for him, he's a lady killer. It was a good week for us and I hope it was also good for all of you! Love you!

Love,

Elder Hagedorn

Elder Morgan wearing a "Linkin Pork" hat. Bahahaha