I love Taiwan!

this is banqioa from my roof..... hey i ran into a guy this week he is a less active and said he was baptized in the 60's, said he knew an elder neilson.... but didnt know his full name.... this chinese guy was name zhang ming ke ask brother neilson if he knows him... this guy hasnt been to church in three years told me " he isn't cutting his hair until the justice is served" seems he may have left the church due to being offended. his hair is very long maybe two feet right now. he used to work in oakland hospital as an engineer for three years... it was a miracle to run into the guy.... well the work is struggling out here... i think satan is focused on our area again, because we got more priesthood brethren in the water then he wanted.... our other investigator that we handed off to the sisters got baptized this past saturday, and the other girl karena , i found from teaching english, is getting baptized this sasturday.

love you all, pray for me to have the spirit, in the work, thats all that is needed right now, it all comes down to the spirit when your finding.

love
Elder Brunson

I'm an Apostatized missionary

hey all well we had another baptism, it was great, but it was the first of this kind that i have seen! so his name is Chen (brother) and he got baptized on the 15th, his birthday we had our recent convert brother Zeng help baptize him... preach my gospel likes the new members baptizing, so trying to make everything perfect i asked zeng to baptize him.... it was a great service, i spoke on baptism at it, and the spirit was very strong, so it was a smooth baptism.... or so you would think..... well bishop came up to me after everyone left and said in english,, i have to tell you a secret, so we went for a walk,,,,,, and then he started speaking in chinese.... and told me BROTHER ZENG didn't get the priesthood yet.... OOOOOPS!!!!! then he looked at me and had this confused look like what do we do and i was like " are you serious, we all nominated him last week for priesthood ( i don't know whats that called in english) and my mm leader told me you guys give the members priesthood different then you do in america, he said you do it in your bishops office."

so i was lead to believe he had the priesthood plus the bishop attended the baptism.... then his wife came up and was like whats wrong.... i looked at her and smiled... the baptism is wrong hahahah then she said what and bishop told her he didn't have the priesthood, and then she hit him and said you knew this the whole time, and he said i didn't think of it till after it had happened.... then i said no problem no problem no one needs to know... will fill the font right now again and baptize him again..... so we got the water going... but before that i grabbed our investigator and said i need to talk you..... so we walked into a room, i shut the door and said we have a problem.... the baptism we just did doesn't count, zeng doesn't have the priesthood, what do you have planned today, we need to baptize you again.... hahaaahah this is a hilarious experience, so many details get left out while typing.... well to make it quick the investigator was good bout the situation, and it was a good experience,,, really funny he got the opportunity to feel what its like to get baptized the apostatized way then the real way... i told him now no one would forget him!!! well

the story is better in person, if the ward wants me to give a talk on authority when i get back, i think i would do a very good job!! :)

love you all Elder Brunson

heres Chen.... after he wasnt really baptized with every one.... then there he is with us right before we re baptized himmmmm .... hes handsome,,, 37 and not married yet,,, we took him to the temple after church yesterday to do a tour and he cant wait to get married there!

love ya elder Brunson

Just Pictures... not much time

zeng bo ya is the one that got baptized.... thats a pic of the baptism.... its not bout the missionaries, so we put pics like that on the wall not him and just the missionarys...the other older guy is going in this sat.

ohhh ya and the pic on the door , is a note we wrote to the guy going in this sat..... he loved it... we went to his door snaped a photo then printed it out and put it on his door... he said it was great cuz it gave him the feeling we were there

Happy New Year!

well its a new year, and just started my ninth transfer, i've almost been on island for a year, this month the 27th will be a year. i still have no clue what im doing but im so used to that feeling now, that it feels like i know what im doing. hope that make sense....if not oh well, when do i make sense? we got a baptism on the 8th and should have one on the 15th as well, both of which are super prepared, and im not worried about them at all! last night i saw a kid i baptized on my third transfer, turns out he's super strong in the church he's 24, and he came up to me i hugged him, then he asked me where you at right now, i told him banqioa and then he said really i said yeah, and he said really i was like YEAH, then he said i want you to give my family the gospel, turns out they live on the same road as the church i go to So they're in my area.... i thought that was a miracle, that was the first time i have seen him in bout 7 months, and i just so happen to be in the area his family lives in now..... ummmm im still alive and baptizing.... thats all you really need to know right? love yall

ELder Brunson

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE PICTURES:

the kid in the middle is zeng bo ya, hes getting baptized on the 8th... right now because he is so golden and wants to serve a mission, he is my companion and we teach my comp a elder davisll the lessons, my comp elder davis is our progressing investigator brother waters, we teach in english, zeng bo ya actually calls at nights and follows up on brother waters hahahahhah

oh and the bike shop guy we run with six mile every tues thurs and sat,,, we are slowly teaching him the gospel as we run.... i hate running that far lol, but its for baptism :)