I MADE IT TO TAIWAN> IM ALIVE AND LOVING IT (:

Alright everyone. I know you are use to like 4 line emails... so prepare yourself.... (:(: I am sitting in Taiwan right now in an internet cafe and it smells funny and i love it. and it is hot and great.

We had a great couple of days... but oh man i have been so tired. it is so weird.... i didn't know when to sleep on the plane and when not to and i was awake for a while then the last 3 hours we were all asleep. every single missionary haha (:(: and then we didn't get hardly any sleep just trying to get everything that we needed to do... today i am feeling a little better, but it comes in waves.
ALSO, i think this might be a normal time for me to email... it will always be like sometime sunday night for you all.
OK, so yes the flight was long, but it was good and everyone made it safely and everything and thank goodness and it was all good (: that was totally a miracle (: we always had time to talk to people. we got to have an awesome transfer meeting, it was soooo fun haha we all went up and introduced ourselves in chinese... if we were foreign and then if you were a native you did it in english... they are really trying to stretch all of the missionaries here, the foreigners to speak chinese and the natives to speak english. then president day said some stuff about us and then in his best announcer voice... he was like, sister walker you are called to serve in the beautiful east coast city of Hualian and your trainer is Sister George!!! woohooo (: (: it was so fun, then we just hugged each other and got a picture (: (: it was so exciting, and really i think sister george is just perfect, she has never trained before so we are just learning together, she has been here for 10 months in taiwan and this is her second transfer in Hualian, she is great and haha, before we had gotten a chance to meet the trainers and while i didn't really get to talk to her... secretly i was hoping for her (:(: she reminds me so much of myself!!! haha it is so exciting!!! haha, her chinese is really good and she is always helping me, saying this is my new companion and then letting me introduce myself haha, but if i don't understand then she helps me (: we rode the train from Taipei to Hualian... it was a 3 hour train ride and we were pretty much standing the whole time, haha, the elders that bought our tickets didn't get us seats... haha it was really hot and we were sitting and standing by the luggage making sure that it didn't move or anything.... i gave away my first book of mormon while we were waiting for the train to come.... anyways then we took a taxi to our apartment... which is totally cute and i love it!!!(:(: then we heated up some bao zi which are like... dumplings i guess (: haha, it was good, then i unpacked some stuff and totally crashed. we were trying to do weekly planning but ya, i was like falling asleep i was sooo dead, and ya i went back and looked at my planner... i couldn't read anything!!! oh well (:(: then yup, we woke up, rode our bikes to the beach and then came back to study then we went out looking for people.... haha, we had a couple lessons and knocked doors and planned things and went to the church and wow, it was cool (: haha!!  we need to work on our companionship dynamic. it is hard though, totally different than with sister jex. oh man!!! i totally forgot to say... so sister jex is on the west coast and i am on the east coast(:(: and i miss her so much! but we both need to be trained and then maybe in a couple transfers we can get the power duo back together (:(: anyway church was really good, couldn't understand a whole ton... but basically i got the jist of things... haha! i was the first to go up and bear my testimony, everyone said it was so good (: they are all sweet! it is sooooo totally different than in the states..... wow, not a lot of people at all, but they are all so sweet, haha i have only seen one other white person here besides the msisionaries... totally crazy huh??? and ya, what else... we had a "FHE" with a return missionary and some youth and the elder's investigator. it was fun, we played signs, it was cool, because they totally explained it and everyone got it... haha, i can't even do that in english!!! hahah (: it was good though, today is pday and we are going to buy me a bike (: and ya. that is really important. we bike all day, so i need one of those (:
Also!! i totally forgot to say... but while we were staying at the mission home we had a... well they call it a babysitting night... where the trainers take all the new missionaries out and we go contact for 2 hours then they buy us a yummy drink. hah. it was so cool (: we gave out so many "pamphlet" things... and taught 4 actual lessons!  we got a lot of referrals for the missionaries there too, it was awesome (:(: and such a cool experience, we just went out and prayed to know where to go.... then we were just led to talk to people... we met Samuel, he is here in Taiwan studying but he is actually from Singapore and is actually Indian, he had grown up going to church before but we were able to share with him that this is what he is looking for and that it really is going to help his life. he said the most beautiful prayer and then we got his information... but we couldn't give him a book of mormon because we didn't have an english copy and his chinese wasn't so good. it was inspired that i would bring my study book of mormon that had english so that he could read a little bit though (:(: amazing, we all saw so many miracles that night!!(:(:
welp, i know that God is our Heavenly Father and that he loves us. He wants us to communicate with Him and Jesus Christ's gospel can help everyone's lives.
Also, the food is really good. i don't know what it is most of the time, but it tastes good (: haha! oh and the mangooooooooooooo yum (: haha, it is really hot and i am sweating constantly. all the day. unless we are inside. like now (: most places have air conditioning (:(: haha
love you all and will talk to you next week (:
love,
Sister Walker

ALSO ALL YOU IN THE MTC KEEP ON KEEP IN ON (:(:(: I LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU THE MOST OUT OF EVERYTHING AT THE ENTIRE MTC> ROCK ON (:(:

OK, so the pictures are

1. me and my trainer!!! Sister George is great (:(: like right now.

2. that is the ocean haha, i was on a train (:(:

3. this is the Grand hotel, where Taiwan was dedicated for the preaching of the gospel and I am with my temporary companion Sister Peng who is from Taichung!! (: