Buddish Baibai Allowed if Praying to God
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 11:32 PMUm, why is it that nobody writes me consistently?  You guys need to be better about that, especially since I write you EVERY week, even twice sometimes when my email decides to get lost.  Nobody answered my question last week about the name, and nobody has told me Nena's address even though I asked a lot of times, I can't find out myself, someone needs to find out for me.Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and they don't celebrate American holidays here (duh), so with the exception of we might spend time searching for American stores to make something tomorrow like a pumpkin pie, tomorrow will not be a

Another Perspective on Rethinking Depression: Early Release Missionaries
Domestic Goddess has left a new comment on a post "Rethinking Depression: Early Release Missionaries" that I put up a year ago.  She makes some good points: I realize its been nearly a year since you posted this but I still would like to leave a comment.My daughter's boyfriend was released early due to a serious episode of bipolar 1. It was serious enough that he was in a hospital in severe delirium.

Unwinding As Missionaries
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:26 PMHello from Rainy Jilong City.  It was nice to get your guys emails finally!  This week when I introduced my family (Here in Taiwan it is standard to introduce your family, and as a missionary you carry around pictures, which by the way most of you look bad in the pictures I show everyone because nobody ever wanted to give me a picture of us all at the wedding like I used to ask for back in my first transfer! So I collected random pictures you sent me and stuff already on my camera and I show people those...with Franny drinking pickle juice and other such pictures...hahaha) then I was like, yeah, my sister is pregnant, exc

Jilong Area Expands and Gets New Set of Sisters
Nobody wrote me this week.  I'm still in Jilong with the same companion.  However, there are two extra sisters this transfer and so they decided to put them in Jilong.  Now our area is getting split in half.  It really grew a lot since I first got here with no investigators that could progress, because the only ones willing to progress have parents opposing baptism problems and need to wait 2-4 more years to get baptized, and no people to meet with, so like 10 lessons a week..and it was quite a task to get that...to quite a few people with dates and we had 23 lessons last week.  So this area can handle two more sisters.  It should be a lot of fun to have Sister

Swine Flu Persistent Problem Months Later at MTC
Sister Daria Clifton reports that Swine Flu continues as a persistent annoyance at the MTC still:Now, down to the news. On Thursday, six of my elders started complaining that they were not feeling well. They all looked and sounded like they'd been hit by semis. Us Hermanas, after much persistence, sent them to the Health Clinic. Five of them were sent back to their dorms to sleep for the rest of the day, and for the following day. One of them was sent to QUARANTINE! Poor Elder Warr, my FAVORITE Elder, was sent to quarantine! The doctor wouldn't say if he has Swine