The Single's Are in The House!

Three weeks ago some of the singles in the branch told Andrea that they were going to come to our apartment the next week and have dinner with us, they would bring food and we should provide an "American" dessert. We weren't sure what to expect but were excited none-the-less.

They made something with dumplings and some kind of batter.

A Taiwanese "pancake"

Pumpkin soup

Andrea provide the fixings for root beer floats (there is root beer to buy somewhere but we don't know where so she got orange soda) or banana splits, but they didn't really understand that they were supposed to be two separate desserts, so...they put ice cream with bananas and orange soda all covered with chocolate sauce. They LOVED IT! Andrea and I were cracking up the whole time but they thought that it was an awesome idea.

After dinner we played some intense rounds of Uno.

Randy (one of the singles) had brought his non-member friends Paper and his girlfriend Fish, so at the end the missionaries stopped by and played a couple of rounds of Uno, just so they could meet them.

All in all it was a fun night, we hope that we can do it again before we go home.

Talents for Mothers

For those of you that missed it, last Sunday was Mother's Day, a day that we should take extra time to honor our mothers, our own and any mother figure in our lives.

The Hualien and Ji-An Branches didn't forget, they had a wonderful activity on Saturday in honor of Mother's Day. It was a talent show/food/dancing/massage activity. They began with the talents, the choir sang, primary children sang, a family danced together, children played the piano, Stephanie and Eliza played the recorder.

After followed dancing, a lady from the other branch taught everyone, it was fun to just watch. Last they had all of the "mothers" sit in a row and the primary children all had lotion put in their hands, they came around gave everyone neck and arm massages (some were even sweet enough to give their mothers feet massages). Allie and Eliza made sure that Andrea and I were well massaged and moisturized, they came back to us a couple of times.

It was very fun and sweet to watch the children be gentle with their moms as they massaged them and lots of fun.

Oh and then to top it all off they gave us flowers on Sunday during Sacrament meeting (it was rather funny because they handed them out in the middle of sacrament, they played music to keep it "more reverent," I don't think that it ever got fully quiet again)