Funny Guy Speaking English -- Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Hey Mom and Dad-- how are you--
sound like all is well-- dad is flying around the world-- fun fun--dont eat to much of the raw fish-- i kinda like it-- good stuff wow mom- you can pray in chinese!! that is awesome-- i am very impressed-- keep it up and you will be better then me in no time. we are doing well here in yinge elder taylor and i get along great- we have a ton of fun and we find alot of people. Yinge is still a really new area but it will start waking up here pretty soon

the other night we were coming home and right out side of the elevator to our place was this really funny guy speaking english--- he was drunk out of his mind-- but the will always set up when they are drunk. turns out that he was in to some way bad drugs-- just got out of prison and is ruining his life -- or already has. but he is doing better-- every day he buys one pack a smokes and takes part of the pack and puts it in our mail box every day will be more and more-- he reads the BOM alot to get over the temptations. He hasent drank any for 3 days- way good!! When we see him now he dosent look so waisted or anything-- almost has a little light about him. He will do good. The only problem is getting him to church-- we will have to find him a bike or something to come with us.

Brother xu is doing great--will be baptised this sunday or the next saterday-- His mom doesent really like us-- she is a big mean women but his dad is way cool and wants his son to have religion in his life.

transfers are this friday-- so the next time im on will be Monday.

Oh i have my credit card but no pin-- any one know about that-- i have no way to use it if i need to-- but right now im ok. Its a rule to have that if i need it.

I love ya--- Elder Langford

Temple Trip in Taibei -- Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Hey Mom and dad
How are ya!! all is great here in yinge-- doing really well That pic you sent was cool mom-- that looks like a fun hike!! and i know Elder Li- And Elder Heintz-- thats crazy-- Elder li's sister is Julias really good friend-- she was in our grade. Thats funny-- Tell him both i said hi

well our brother xu was able to come to church this last week-- he has got rides lined up to go every week know-- some members switching back and forth to get him there. The members are way good. He should be able to get baptised next saturday on the 29th. But he needs his dads permission--- his dad is cool-- a busness man that works in singapore but his mom is the one that is holding broth xu back. She thinks he is to young to do this--- i called them last night and his father wanted to take us out to steak on sunday-- but instead they will just feed us at their house. So hopefully we can get him baptised. also working with a brother yang-- a great dad with a really cute little daughter- his daughter loves to sing songs with us- we taught him the Plan of salvation last night and also the Word of Wisdom-- he has smoked for about 25 years-- and wants to stop but cant do it on his own. His daughter heard about him stoping smoking and got a big smile on her face-- she will
help him alot.

We get to go to the temple today in taibei so we are excited for that. Every thing else is great! Easter not for like a month! Anyway-- Love ya-- bye bye-- Elmer Langford

who is Elmer? -- Mar. 12th 2008

Hey Mum and Dad
how are you!!!
im Glad you got your gift!! Thank you so much for mine it was great- my birthday was really good i enjoyed it-- the day befor we made a cake we had in district meeting so we have had fun. ya that scroll i sent might be a little harder to read just becuse it is more of a art then writing characters but natives should be able to read it.

this past week has been preetty good-- our brither xu is getting alot of family opposition to him coming to church so it is really hard for him- he knows the truthfullness of the gospel and a great testamony of it. last time we couldent meet in his out so we went and found a little pash of weeds and sat on the ground. he has alot of faith we are just praying he will find away to come to church. then we have a brother wang-- a really nice kid about 25- really humble and was working on his personal testamony- we would have been baptised next trasfer for sure cause he has felt the spirit and knows it is good. But in taiwan their is a required army service that called for him-- so he is leaving in about 2 weeks to got in millitary for about 11 months-- well have to get him after. hopefull ill still be in yinge-- but probably not.

we juast added a sister lai into our baptisimal pool for the 12 or so thats a funny one-- we had a whole first lesson and we thought she was a guy-- looked like a guy sounded like a guy-- she is a bit chubbyier and was wearing really loose clothing-- i feel bad know-- after we got home she called us and was like-- ummm.. im a girl -- my comp didnt belive me-- he thought we was lieing to him. soo ya-- we might give her to the sisters. how we got the 202 lessons?? Prayed alot for one- we couldent do that with out gods help--- set the goal for it-- our goal was 200 and 60 book of
mormans be exceeded both of them-- sacraficed-- we all picked something to sacrafice for the week that we love!!-- i sacraficed pudding bread-- i love pudding bread and it was hard-- i had withdrawls!! sacrafice time-- we left the house a half hour early came home a half an hour later and all our meals we an eat and run--Pray even more-- hourly or more. then setting little goals throughout the day for contacting sessions-- like how many lessons we wanted.-- our zone saw a ton of miricals that week and are still teaching lots of those people. to bad i moved but as long as they all get baptised. we were reallly tired at the end out that week-- that week was also the time i wanted to finish the 3000---in those 7 day i woke up at 5:00 to study-- i memorized 1400 characters and finished--- you can always see gods had in every aspect of the work-- we alone couldent of done near that will out gods help. i would probably still be working on the 3000 characters and not doing very well on them if god wasent helping me. God is a cool guy!!

im glad all is going well for you in new zealand-- im telling all my friends you are a trainer-- they think that is awesome!!
love you-- Elmer langford

Hey MoM and Dad
How are you!!-- i guess this e-mail will come alot earilier then usual-- today we are running into taibei to buy my comp a bag and stuff so we decided to get it done way early-- its like 6:00 in themourning here--
the past week has gone really well. elder taylors parents e-mail is ttaylor@qwest.net He is an awesome elder- we get along real well and have lots of fun togeather. -- ya the work is different here but we are getting adjusted-- it is alot of trackting but its ok.
right now we are working with a xu that has a baptisimal date for the 29 a wang that has on for the 5th a ken that has one for the 5th and a chen that also has one for the 5th so hopefully they will all contunue to progreess. Lastnight i called the chen guy who i didnt think was to committed but i interupted his book of mormon reading- he said he would read a half hour a day after i asked him to read just 10 min. he is way good just need to gain a testimony--- the wang dude came to english class and set up with us really nice and open guy-- wanted to know abou the ten commandments cause he has alot of chritian friends who dont keep them-- we went in to teach a first lesson but we came out and had also taught Word of Wisdom Chastity sabbeth day and all 10 commandments. he asked a ton of really good questions.- just wanted to know it all.
ken we met on the street yesterday-- a really nice 25 year old that thought we were both 30-- really humble- wanted to know the pourpus of life and wanted to learn about jesus. commited him for baptism and he was all for it.
We have been really blessed this week. finding lots of new people. Last night we went to a guys house that last nov. was taking discussions--it was so good-- he had a christian back groud and belived the bible. as we read parts of the book of mormon he said he could feel the spirt-- he it was very re re in his heart really warm and hot. he need to have more time in his schedual to meet with us so we can teach him cause his work is way hard on him-- usually dosent get home till late.

who are the two elders that are teaching you chinese? thats cool-- chinese is really one of the most simple languages-- it sounds hard the the tones make it hard but the words are really simple-- the word for computer is just sticking electric and brain togeather-- electric and wind together is a fan chinese dosent have new words for things just uses all the base words and sticks em all togeather-- like i have guessed words that i have never learned and got em right just back looking at what it was made of or what it did. chinese is cool. My companions chinese is about as good as mine right now. He learned way fast- gods helped him a ton.
well i love you guys-- thank you so much--- iv been good on money i shouldent need to pull any money out i just need it just in case.
OHMAN!!!!!!!!!!! we might having to start parting our hair!!! that is going to be hard cause everyone wears helmits all day long and hair gets messy anyway-- illl just go get a way short hair cut.

Love You-- Elder Langford