September 30--Good, good good!

Hello family!


Wow! This last week has been good. I am not sure why we are being so blessed or 
why I have been so lucky as to be so busy! It is making time go way too fast, 
but it is, also, not giving me a chance to get distracted. So it is bitter sweet. 

We had Zone conference last week. I did my death speech. It went ok. I made it 
through without crying, but then bawled through the closing song. We sing Army 
of Helaman every single time. And they have gotten permission to change a couple 
of words so it focuses on TAIWAN and NOW! So that hit me pretty strong. Gave me 
the last little push I needed. It is only going to be now for a little while longer. 

Amy and her son got baptized! And it was a good baptism. The only problem was on 
Sunday there was a typhoon so we did not have church. So they had no way of 
getting confirmed. So my companion and I got to thinking and were determined to 
find a way for her and her son to get confirmed because well, Satan is real and 
we didn't want him to have a weeks worth of tempting time. The Branch president 
drives a car so he said it would be no problem to drive him their himself. But 
he said we as missionaries would have to ride our bikes because their was no 
room in his car. So Sister Price and I hoped on our bikes and began our trek. It 
usually takes us about 30 minutes to ride from Zhunan to Toufen, but we decided 
to give ourselves an hour and used every second of it! It was intense. We were 
pedalling as hard as we could and were not moving. My SHOE got blown off of my 
foot and flew across the intersection. It was fun. Well, we got the confirmation 
done and then decided to head out to the church and just make calls inside 
because well it seemed dangerous. So off we headed to the church. 

We made it right to the Elder's intersection when I looked across the street and 
saw people literally being blown right off their scooters. I didn't take this 
into consideration before but that intersection is right off of the ocean so the 
wind was moving. My companion and I quickly were hit by the wind and bailed from 
our bicycles. We ended up just throwing our bikes on a hill and tried helping a 
few people get their scooters stable. I could barely stand up the wind was so 
strong. We ended up getting to the other side of the road and tucked into a 
little flod on one of the buildings and decided to just wait it out there. We 
saw a bumper get ripped off of a car when it turned and caught the wind. Well, 
little to our knowledge the Elders were still in their apartment. So when they 
came outside they only saw our bikes thrown up on the hill with all of our stuff 
in it. And they started to flip out. We heard them yelling. And as they walked 
towards us we realized it was not safe at all. It might have been the fact that 
our zone leader couldn't stop and slammed into a pole. Or the fact that you 
could lean forward and not fall over because the wind was so strong. So needless 
to say we got on the phone with President Hoer and he told us to ge thome as 
soon as possible. So the Elders ended up walking us home so we didn't fly away.

So this was our second typhoon in the last couple weeks. And you will never ever 
believe this they say there is another one on the way! 

We are going to go play with one of my new members today. She wants to take us 
hiking. So I am pretty excited! So I am going to send another e-mail with some 
pictures. And then I will talk to you later! 

I love you all! I miss you!

Sister Shaver