He Made It!!!!!

We found out Thursday that Ben would be leaving for Taiwan on Friday.  He is there and loving it!!

OCTOBER 05, 2014

I am anxious to tell you all that I am FINALLY HERE IN TAIWAN!!!!!! This is seriously the best experience of my life and I flipping love it here! How is it out there in Utah, or America in general. I wouldn't know because I am NOT there! AWW I loved that letter!!! It is 12:21 right now (in the afternoon) and so I can start writing back very soon after I get you letters! Isn't that just loads of fun?? :)

Ok, so I would like to say sorry that I did not call from Japan. Their payphones are different and I cannot read or understand Japanese in anyway shape or form. The only words I know are Conicheewah, Toyota, Nintendo, Godzilla, Pokemon, and Domo origoto Mr. Roboto. I prefer Chinese which is equally confusing but already partially Learned!!! So with that Storm in Japan. We just BARELY missed it. Barely. So we got out right on time and landed in Taiwan at 9:45 P.M. Passed through customs, and were greeted by two very happy old people and the APs. They threw us all on a big bus shuttled us over to the Temple Visitors lodging area. While we were loading the bus I noticed a few people taking pictures of the fresh load of white people with their luggage and couldn't help but laugh. This is where I am supposed to be.

Yesterday we went to church and I understood like three words. (That's three more words than I would have understood without going to the MTC!) Afterwards we went to this place called Daan Park and did our first proselyting activity. 31 missionaries in a large park sharing the gospel with anything that has two legs. It was definitely a sight to see! I talked with a tourist, 5 old guys (who told me I looked asian, asked me if mom was Chinese, made me guess their age, guessed my age to be 25, told me they were Buddhist and not interested in the gospel, and told me my Chinese was very good but laughed when I didn't understand them) a kid playing basketball, a group of kids having a jam session with their guitars in the park and gave one a Book of Mormon, and a guy playing a violin, pooper scooper, and harmonica all at the same time. I got 3 peoples contact info (the one man band, the tourist(american going to school here), and the guitar kid). It was way super fun and my companion helped a lot when we were with the basketball kid and the guitar players.

We don't have permanent comps yet and have not been assigned to our areas. Right now I am temporarily with Elder Griffin who was in the MTC and St. George with me and I just barely payed for my bike. I finish orientation tomorrow. This morning we got up and went for a run. We went to the Chiang Kai Shek memorial which was the biggest and most beautiful building I have ever seen. One day I think I will go back there on a P-Day and (which is monday for me sunday night to you.) do taiqi with the old people in the park!

This place rocks!

Love,

Elder Heaps.