Sister Museus, June 13th 2011

Very Missed Family, I miss all very much, but I can't wait to see you all in almost 2 months!!! Oh, how excited to see you all real soon and show some of you the island of Taiwan! You would be happy to know that I spent a good hour or so on finalizing the places we will go in Taiwan. However, you all need to let me know if I should cancel out Tainan. Right now I am thinking it will be best since there are not a lot of sight-seeing and shopping places in Tainan. We might just visit the three main cities in Taiwan. But, please give me your advice on what you think. I promise to send a list of the cool places we can visit real soon. Today for P-day we spent some time in the apt. (I was busy doing stuff for the trip). Afterwards, we went to lunch at TGI Fridays with one of my recent converts, Sister Chen. I loved this girl so much and she loves spending time with us. You will definitely meet her when you come to Taiwan. Later, we went to a fun Buddhist temple that had huge guardian God on the top of it. We took some fun pictures and Sister Chen acted as our guide as we asked several questions about the different gods they worship and the what the different things mean/represent. This was about all we could get accomplished in our P-day since the rest was spent shopping for food, emailing, and cleaning. We had a wonderful day yesterday as we saw so many of our investigators come to church and our amazing week A's. Sister Xiang (the 14-year-old) scared us again since she headed off to see her mom in Zhanghua on Saturday, but she and her mom got up early Sunday morning so they could attend all 3 hours of church. Luckily, we have a great ward who has really supported Sister Xiang and helped her feel more welcomed and supportive of her needs. In addition, Sister Li (who is in her fifties) will also be getting baptized. She is just as amazing and loves come to church. Sister Li is constantly writing notes down in every church meeting she attends. She was even writing information about the temple! I have to admit that I felt bad that my companion and I taught her a lesson about eternal families/marriage and the importance of it. I knew she was divorced, but all of ours investigators still need to realize the importance of the temple. The lesson even got more awkward as I had to receive more information about her divorce since Sister Li didn't fill this portion out on her batismal record. Then, as she was saying the closing prayer she was asking God to forgive her for her divorce. My companion and I felt so bad, but luckily we had a great member present who also had a divorce and kind of smoothed things over. Sister Li is still awesome and knows we weren't trying to get down on her at all for having a divorce. Anyways, both of these investigators are amazing and will be both baptized this coming Saturday. Sister exchanges is tomorrow and next week is another new move-call (pretty much my last one since they last for 6 weeks and I only have about 8 weeks left here). My mission president might move me, but I am hoping he won't since I have already moved 4 times and this is pretty much my last move-call. However, you never know with President Bishop...he's pretty random with move-calls and such. Whit, thanks for the short email. I am also very excited to see you in just a little over 2 months. It will be fun to see show Taiwan to you. But, remember try not to bring too nice of clothes since the humidity is really nasty right now and will continue to get worse. Whit please do me a favor (and the rest of the family is coming) to please bring some of my clothes with you such as my shorts and t-shirts so I don't have to keep wearing the same things over and over, especially the skirt ordeal. I would really appreciate it! Love you tones Whit and I am so very proud of you. Keep up the good work! Mom, thanks for always emailing me. You must be very tired and busy doing Alicia's huge wedding shower and making pot pies for several people. However, that is mom for you....always taking care of others' needs :). I love you Madre and I am so very proud of you as well. We will need to get rental cars to visit the sites in each city. Thank you for sending the schedule to the office couple. If they have any questions or my mission pres. I will try my best to give a better explanation so don't worry about it. I can't give you a complete schedule on the exact days we will be in each city, but I promise to give you this stuff next week. Most likely I will cut out Tainan city so we can spend two days in the other three cities. I also don't know when or where you will meet me, but I will ask my mission president soon about this one. But I have to admit that I probably won't ask him until the date is closer unless you want/need it now. Some of the fun sites we will be going to in the cities include famous night markets, historical temples, monastries (maybe), some museums (fine arts, science, etc.), really fun shopping areas that include handicrafts, cultural items, ceramics, jade, clothes, etc. In addition, we will have some fun day activities such as visiting the famous Sun Moon Lake, Lukang Village full of historical sites and fun shopping, Yangmingshan National Park, Maokong Cable Car, other scenic areas, etc. If some of this doesn't sound too exciting let me know. You might want to look up Taibei, Taichung, and Kaohsiung and see if there are any neat places that we need to visit that I may not be aware of (since I can't use the internet). In addition, my companion said that there are the best tour books called "Lonely Planet". You might want to look into this and get one for Taiwan. She also said you could just buy small parts of it online that will only contain the main cities we want to go to. If any of you have time this may help me so we visit the best parts in Taiwan. Things are still going great with my companion and I. I do have to admit that sometimes I need to learn to have more patience with her since she isn't very proactiv and is very slow at doing things, but is very very nice and is willing to do anything. PLus, we always think alike, which really helps in lessons and planning lessons. I love you lots family. cant wait to see you soon! Love, Sister Museus