Elder Andrew Erickson's Taiwan Taipei Mission

New missionary training. Elder Erickson with his new companion/trainer Elder Hammond from Texas. Saying some awkward goodbyes to the girls.

Hey it sounded like you never got last weeks email so here it is.  Hey thanks for that message. I started the BOM again and when I read the first vision I actually noticed that and tried to discuss it with my district but none of them really understood what I was asking about. So that'll really help. And yeah I already got that whole idea of the fear of not speaking the language. The first few days here were absolutely terrible. We only speak Chinese in the class and theirs only one other elder in my district who does not have multiple years of mandarin experience. I took it really hard. I was constantly complaining about it and it was all I could think about. My companions name is Dong Zhanglao (Elder Donalson) and he had 4 years of Chinese before coming here and still struggled with the language. So yeah our first lesson on Thursday last week was terrible. And all I could say was to the investigator was "I'm sorry. Could we please come back  tomorrow ." The spiri...