Seeds

This past Sunday, Ben delivered the morning's sermon to the church, with the help of another church member's interpreting (Mantex Hsu). He spoke about his experiences doing mission work. We're very thankful that the congregation wanted to hear from us, after all they've done for us here already. We'd like to ask you guys to pray for their success and that they grow in the future. They've been nothing short of amazing so far.

-Briannon Trimm

Communication not Spoken: Kindness

As I was waiting for the bus today it was raining. I did not have an umbrella with me, because with the crutches it makes it inconvenient to carry an umbrella also. (I hurt my ankle last Monday while ice skating, but it's only a sprain) I was waiting and the lady next to me grabbed my arm and pulled me next to her to be under her umbrella. She was sharing her umbrella with me! She continued to help me as I got into the bus and when we arrived to our destination too. We have encountered so many different people who have shown us kindness like this lady showed me today. I am deeply going to miss the people of Taiwan.

-Ginny Flores

You guys might want to know where we live....

Here're two views from our apartment. We have this great mountain of a hill to climb each day to get here (given no justice through my photo, of course). We're really close to a hospital, so you guys don't have to worry too much about us. And we certainly know how to press buttons that say "emergency" on them in Chinese, even when we don't mean to.

Week Four is Here!

At the beginning of the project, the six week wall towered above us, with so much time to get to know the church and our readers. Now that we're moving toward the middle of the fourth week, we're all looking for the proverbial brakes here to slow us down! Conversations with our readers have recently become deeper and have covered things beyond the lessons; each of us are asked questions often that we're not even sure how to answer. We certainly have more things to ponder that we haven't thought of before.

Some of our readers have dropped (many are traveling to America, and one to Germany), but we're still blessed with a surplus to draw from. The church here is doing great work bringing all of these people together for this project.

Ben and I will have a total of three new readers (as well as one that signed up in the beginning but only started to come now)! Two will begin today.

Please continue praying for the project; all the help you have given us has done wonders!

-Briannon Trimm

And the Winner Is...

Everyone!

Yesterday was our "Silly Olympics" Party, hosted by Ben Hocher! Our readers competed as teams for tiny plastic medals that don't fit over their heads, and it was fun! The competitions included bouncing chopsticks into bowls, face oreos, malt ball bridge, cup stacking relay and a human knot! The competition ended with bean curd ice cream (thanks, Grandma!) and heavy rain.

Our project continues to be blessed with a surplus of readers, and as the third week begins on Wednesday, we feel our individual relations deepening, and conversations become more meaningful.

Howdy, Y'all!

Last night was the first team-planned social event (planned by our own Ginny Flores), and the theme was Texas! Feedback indicates the party was a success, and the bar was set pretty high for future plans.

In case you missed them, here are some photos:

Ginny taught about Texan culture, and a group of people in Taiwan learned how to line dance (and some even got the hang of the "Cotton-Eyed Joe").

In other news, our first week in Taiwan has passed! We've all met most of our readers and have finally (somewhat) adjusted to our schedules here.

Please continue prayers for the project!