hey its Elder Joey
transfers are here-- my comp is moving and i get another-- wow i go through companions like eating candy-- every transfer-- this new one will be an elder bingham he gets here in about an hour er so -- so it should be pretty fun.. lots of b names--- bean, brown, bingham--
i have to take him around the area for the first week or so- pretty much be senior until he learns the area.

some people in taiwan really have no life---- the people in this computer internet cafe have been here all night-- have of em are asleep on there ash trays-- this guy next to me looks like he is 40 and has a couple empty beers and 3 cigerette packs. they all just waist there time playing these war games on the internet. all day-- all night.

so the other day we met with our hong jia long-- he is great-- baptism still schedualed for the 8th of dec. we hope all will be good and go smoothely for him-- he is a really great investigator-- every time we commit him to things he says "of coarse" in english and then has this big grin on his face.-- my companion is sad cause he was here for 6 months and finally he has some solid people going for baptism and he has to move.
oh man-- thanksgiving was so great!!! last wed. we were at the church all day long cooking and making it. it was wonderful-- and still alot of leftovers for the next couple weeks. Last english night we did a thanksgiving one and we taught everyone about thanks giving and what it is about and about traditions we have. everyone had so many questions about everything-- no one really understood that you eat as much as you can and then sleep and watch football-- they all thought it was a really funny holiday.

well i hope my new companion is good-- and i hope all of your are doing grand..

Love you all-- i wont be e-mailing until next weds. so a week and a half-- and i might be on a little later today with my other companion--
- Elder Joey Langford

11 year old Baptized and Thanksgiving with Costco Turkey -- November 21, 2007

hey
all is good here in danshui
we had a great baptism last week with a ke guan yu- a little 11 year old boy- . we are surprised he did so well cause he can go really crazy sometimes and the water was so so cold--- because the weather as been cold. oh ya the best part is our baptismal font--not really a font at all- more like one of those cool little pools you have in your backyard that we filled with hoses-- i have pics but no way to really send them-- a nasty old bluish color--really quite attractive.

i got to go on exchanges with our zoneleaders the other day-- it was way fun-- elder marble(my trainer) came to danshui and i went to shilin -i was with a elder zhao who is a 27 year old native with really bad english so we just talked in mandrine the whole time-- it was great we found 2 golden guys one committed to baptisim on the street and the other was coming to church the next day-- the first was acctually from the main office or the "bu" the guy called in and said he wanted to hear about the church- we had a great lesson with him and he really felt the spirit strong.

the weather is slowly getting colder-- but still not to bad-- we are having a huge thanksgiving feast at our church today for the holiday. it going to be so good- some elders in the other area have a costco so we have a big turkey- stuffing- crainberry goodness rolls pumpkin pie and buscits and a bunch of other stuff--- im so excited.

Well at the baptisim for ke guan yu our other investigator-- a brother yang came up to us and asked us when he was going to get baptised--- music to our ears-- we set a date with him in december-- thats the only for sure one we have right now-- we might be getting our hong jia long back but we dont know--he is the one we started teaching in the hospital.

well thank you all for everything i love you-- 龍 長 老 elder langford

2 more coming up for Baptism -- Nov 13, 2007

Hello Family

hope every one is well-- wow going to tonga -thats pretty cool- i should be able to recive pics through e-mail just send em on over and i could take a look-- iv talked to elder whats his face a couple times that is from newzealand- and i guess you go on walks with his mom on the beach -- he sounds like a great elder. we have had a good week in danshui-- we will be having a baptism this saterday. An 11 year old boy. he is a really good kid. he is a foster child-- has been seperated from all his brothers and sisters because the mother refuses to take care of them. oh and she is going to have another child in a couple months-- not a very good mother-- his father and so much debt that he killed him self-- which is really bad cause in taiwan the debt falls on the oldest child-- our baptism kid-- so he is 11 and has thousands and thousands of debt right now--- how messed up is that!!

We had another guys who was investigating inanother city move to our area-- so he was trasferred to us and we get to teach him now. he is a really solid nice guy that will progress through baptism. we havent had an oppertunity to meet with him yet but he came to church last week-and that says alot cause it took him over an hour to come.

It great that even though we lost two really good investigators god gave us two more we can work with and help.-- we are still trying to find others on the streets-- alot of em set up with us because they are to scared to be impolite to an american to our face-- so they end up just standing us up . a couple here and their really have a little intrest and get an intro to the gospel.

Mom that cool you are in the office-- we have some really cool amas in our office too. do im sure alot of what you are doing-- yes i am writing every week to my president and i am working on my handwriting.

and with my pants-- we used to need to wash them alot when we sweated alot in the humidity and heat-- parts of your pants would turn white from the salt drying into your pants but not as much now-- my companion most the time wears this big coat and beanie cause he is
frezzing. we had our presidents interview yesterday in taipei and today we get to go again for temple day!! its been since june since i had a chance to go and that was in provo. im way excited cause its been so long.

well thank you for all- i love you and thank you for the prayers
- Love Elder langford-- 龍亦德長老

Teaching people that ended up NOT in our area.. Nov 6, 2007

Hey

hows everyone doing!!! everything here is so good-- lots of good things happening- this week we started the week with 2 good people that had goals for baptisim--both were "golden"-- but somehow we have been robbed and now we have no one. well one of them we started teaching but it turns out he was barely in the other elders area so we moves him over there-- and the other -brother hong- who we met at the hospital is amazing-- yesterday we had the 2nd lesson with him and he loved it-- he said after he was baptised that he wanted to come chuanjiao with us er--- umm thats hard to translate -
spread church - he just wants to come out with us when we contact-- really fun guy-- he is 28 and everytime we see him he talks about the spirit we bring to him and he loves it. he left the hospital on monday and went home to sanchong about 20 min out of town-- he will be moving back but not until the next semester of school starts which is in january-- so we gave the sanchong elders his name and number and they will see him through baptism as long as he gets baptised is the important part but we kinda wanted to be the ones to help him through-- just cause we had already developed a great relationship with him.-- oh well
we are still working hard tring to find others
we had a mexican fiesta the other day in district meeting-- we made tortieas and beans and guacamole-- so good-- that when we had the monkey puke jelly-- everyone loves it--- so good!! thank you so much we just had it with the normal crackers and cream cheese. all the cds are great than you for all of them they give us something to listen to!! my shirts look good not bad at all no need to buy new ones yet-- and we dont even sweat anymore-- its is like fall weather in utah-- my companion get real cold and wears a beanie and sweater and coat-- i guess my blood hasent thined out yet i love the weather.
i will probaly get new pants-- all the missionary mall pants just look relly worn and dont have that goos church pant look to em-- like all these little fabric balls and just bad looking-- i can get some way good pants here for 150 a piece-- that is like 4 bucks american mabey 5-- so really cheap--- thanks for the money-- ill have to find a place to exchange it-- but thankyou-- at the end of the pay period when we didnt have anymoney we got some big bills for out apartment so i paid them with my american account and they will be reemberst to me-- ill just but the money in my suit case so i dont touch it-- i have like a 10 thousand reembersment coming this friday-- thats like-- well i dont know-- alot---
-- wow elder nielson-- thats cool-- im excited to go to the temple this transfer-- down in taidong we couldent go because it was to far but we get to go on the last p-day of the transfer now that im up in the city-- kinda--
well thank you for all- i love you all-- Elder langford 龍 亦 德 長 老
long yi de zhang lao
well im trying to send pics to you but this computers wont let me connect to it-- its buggin me sorry

The Phone Rang -- Oct 30, 2007

Hello!!!

All is well here in danshui!!
we are doing really well here- having alot of fun. the other day we were in church and the phone rang-- my comp elder brown went to go get it and it was some guy--28 or so from the hospital-- he said that he was in the hospital for depression and his friend called him and told him about the joy that has come into his life from the gospel-- so he then gave us a call-- we set up to meet with him and went on monday. we went and it was in the locked down part of the hospital-- had to go threw some tight security show our id and get patted down- then one of those wands to make sure we have no metal on us---- i guess they have some pretty crazy people-- the whole time we wee wondering what this kid was going to be like-- we were kinda freaked out--- we found his room and he jumped out of bed and had a huge smile on his face-- one of the happiest kids iv seen here is taiwan-- he was really good to we taught him a first and he loved it-- hesaid he had a good feeling when his friend called and had the same with us there. i guess visiting hours were over because the guard came in and told us we had to leave so we wernt able to make any solid commitments. then last night he called us and told us he wanted to be baptised!! we are going to go see him again tonight to set a date with him and follow up. we are excited for him- he will be a great member.
yesterday we had a great zone confrence--- we went down to taipei and had it-- it was with 5 other zones-- alot bigger then in taidong with our zone of 15 missionaries only-- the place was packed. it was all on chapter 3 of PMG really good stuff. my favorite part was from the A.P's they talked on the atonment and it was way spiritual really good talk-- it was weired cause half of it was in chinese-- even though i didnt understand everything i knew the truth of it!!.

SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i thought i was just going to have an awesome early christmas!!!! i really enjoyed it- we had christmas songs and everything going- thank you so much i really didnt see any part of it that said not to open it until christmas!. You dont have to worry at all about on the real christmas-- It is huge!!! all the missionaries go to this high school in taipei for the whole day and its a party huge BBq and talent show and football and all other games-- and everyone gets a present from the mission-- ill be okay on christmas-- very happy-from what i here i can call when ever around christmas-- some do it on christmas but most do it like the week around chritmas so when ever you want-- for me the morning after christmas will be christmas evening for you guys er mabey not christmas evening in the states i dont know what time you are in.- but i am sorry that i did it wrong!!! all will be ok all will be fine.

no i have never washed my clothes with darks-- it a little mixture of pollution and sweat that makes em go dark-- you should see the clothes that the old missionaries have--- their bad looking i bleach mine every couple time and ther really arnt that bad right now- ecxept the collers-- those were gone the first week
i dont personally know that elder from new zealand but my comp does- sounds like a good elder- thats cool you ran in to them-- it sounds like you are getting all setteled into your new home and all is going well.

my complexion is good-- ya we eat fruit not as much as in the summer though --this trasfer we are studing about the book of mormon and teaching with the holy ghost-- the president has been calling the mission to repentance for not using the book of morman more-- like in our contancting and on the streets with people-- he shared with us D&C 84:54-58 it really does have so much more power when you share sciptures right on the streets with people and applying it into there lifes. the spirit is always way strong-- alot of people feel it just choice not to act upon it.


anyway-- thank you all for everything i love you so much!!!
-Love elder langford