TYPHOON!!! Aug 21, 2007

Hey! Its Elder Langford
Everything is great here in taidong, we were sapposed to have some baptisms on sat but didnt happen- we had one of the sisters so just one of em- zhang wanted his family to be there to watch the they were stck in another city because of the huge taiphoon also because of the taiphoon lin jia yi couldent get over here- his parents wouldent let him go out side-- i guess it is pretty dangerous-- we were wondering why everyone was running inside- the whole mission was told to stay inside on sat.- our building was rocking with the wind and the wind sounded like people hitting our windows-- we had to tape all the windows it was really fun except for the fact i had a fever of 39.5 which translated to like 110!! or somewhere in the area- mabey a little less.
Brother zhang an Lin will both be baptised sun. mourning before church- ill be baptising lin and elder marble will be baptising Zhang.

we did get a new person in the baptisimal pool- so he accepted baptisim and we gave him a date- but his mom has alot of fandui- she is ageinst the baptism so we are praying her heart will be softened- his name is Brother Lin

The ward lists are really funny out here because everyones name is the same-- half the ward is lin the other half zhang and the other half wang. so we half so know alot of first names.

so when are you going to newzealend?? do we have any dates-- we did have to do x-rays and bunch of the tests in the mtc for visa stuff so ya the mtc does take care of alot of it.

jalapano jelly- hun hao chi -- literally means very good eat-- i love that stuff- you should fill and envelope and send some out with some wheat thins- good stuff

yesterday we had a good first lesson with this guy-- he is more intersted in the differences between the christian churchs- he is fojiao right now(buddist) hopefully he felt the spirit and we can teach him again- he is a realy nice guy with really good english-- that makes it nice so i can if i dont know a word in chinese which is alot i just say it in english and he would understand- really good lesson though the spirit was strong ang i pray he felt it and wants more of it.
for a missionary moment- i dont know-- i have told all the good ones in my letters so mabey look at one of those.

well thank you all for everthing i love you all
- i can e-mail all close family including grandparents- i dont know if you knew that so yah- laura and scott and danny and rachel can e-mail me-- i dont have their addresses

-Elder Langford

Editor Note: Joey didnt add that link above just as an FYI. I'm guessing that article is the storm that they encountered though.