Our June Welfare visit was to Taiwan, one of the countries we work with. Elder and Sister Sparrow are our Welfare Missionaries there. They are from Colorado Springs, Colorado and have been in Taiwan since August 2008. He is a retired Air Force officer and she is a special ed teacher. Four of their six children were born with some handicap, and Sister Sparrow has become an expert in many areas of special ed. Because Taiwan has a stronger LDS Church presence than any other of our Asian countries, they only have smaller humanitarian projects leaving most welfare work to the Stakes. The Sparrows work in all Welfare areas including employment and teaching English. The 50,000th member of the Church in Taiwan was recently baptized. There are ten stakes and a temple in the country. Part of our assignment was to visit with several Priesthood leaders on Welfare matters in Taipei. We also visited humanitarian project sites and spent a special morning at the the Chung Yi orphanage where our adopted grandaughter, Maya, live for the first 8 months of her life. We were able to spend time in the temple and attended an endowment and sealing session. We have posted four blogs about our visit. This blog is a general blog highighting the Service Center, Temple and Missionary offices which are all located next to each other. We also visited a chapel in Hsinchu (see map above) after a 30 minute travel on a bullet train. The other three blogs cover our visit to several projects and activities, the trip to the orphanage, and our visit to some of the cultural and historical places of Taipei. We had a very busy five days.
This was our first use of the Dragon Airlines. It was a colorful plane.
Most of the buildings in Taipei are not as tall as those in Hong Kong, but they are are very beautiful. The traffic flow is like America. They drive on the right. After 5 months of getting used to traffic traveling on the left, it was relearning experience for us in Taiwan
The skyline does show several tall buildingts.
The beautiful Taipei Taiwan Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We spent several hours inside on June 10.
This was our first use of the Dragon Airlines. It was a colorful plane.
Most of the buildings in Taipei are not as tall as those in Hong Kong, but they are are very beautiful. The traffic flow is like America. They drive on the right. After 5 months of getting used to traffic traveling on the left, it was relearning experience for us in Taiwan
The skyline does show several tall buildingts.
The beautiful Taipei Taiwan Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We spent several hours inside on June 10.
Elder and Sister Sparrow greet us at the entrance to the Service Center. This is where they have their office. The building is adjacent to the Temple and houses five church units on Sunday. The building houses a Distribution Center, Taiwan church offices, and is used for missionary and English language teaching.
A very devoted couple. In spite of a serious health problem that Elder Sparrow experienced in the first few months of his mission, he continues to serve faithfully. He was a missionary here in the1960s. They love Taiwan.
The directory of Church offices in the Building. Elder and Sister Sparrow are on the 4th floor.
The beautiful offices of the Service Center Manager, Carl Liang. and his staff.
We met Ben Tsai, a building engineer who hopes to attend BYU for graduate studies.
The Taipei Taiwan mission offices are in this building across the street from the Service Center. We met President Nielson and enjoyed a lunch with the missionaries at a zone conference held in the Center.
Our training of Elder and Sister Sparrow and Carl Liang took place in this well-equipped Conference Room.
Elder and Sister Phillips serve as Public Affairs missionaries for Taiwan. They work closely with Elder and Sister Sparrow on humanitarian projects.
We tried a lot of local food on this trip. The Sparrows eat the local food most of the time. These are steamed pork dumplings. They are steamed in this reed-like covered dish.
We met the Temple President, President Walker. His father is a sealer in the Provo Temple. His father is 96 years old and still very active. We enjoyed having supper with President Walker and the Sparrows. His wife was in the United States to attend a family funeral.
We visited Hsinchu. To get there we rode this train. Because of its speed, it is called a bullet train.
A beautiful chapel in Hsinchu.
The Employment Resource Center for this part of Taiwan is housed on the ground floor of this building. It is very spacious and well-equipped.
Brother Wu is the Director of the ERS in Hsinchu. We had a good visit with him.
A very devoted couple. In spite of a serious health problem that Elder Sparrow experienced in the first few months of his mission, he continues to serve faithfully. He was a missionary here in the1960s. They love Taiwan.
The directory of Church offices in the Building. Elder and Sister Sparrow are on the 4th floor.
The beautiful offices of the Service Center Manager, Carl Liang. and his staff.
We met Ben Tsai, a building engineer who hopes to attend BYU for graduate studies.
The Taipei Taiwan mission offices are in this building across the street from the Service Center. We met President Nielson and enjoyed a lunch with the missionaries at a zone conference held in the Center.
Our training of Elder and Sister Sparrow and Carl Liang took place in this well-equipped Conference Room.
Elder and Sister Phillips serve as Public Affairs missionaries for Taiwan. They work closely with Elder and Sister Sparrow on humanitarian projects.
We tried a lot of local food on this trip. The Sparrows eat the local food most of the time. These are steamed pork dumplings. They are steamed in this reed-like covered dish.We met the Temple President, President Walker. His father is a sealer in the Provo Temple. His father is 96 years old and still very active. We enjoyed having supper with President Walker and the Sparrows. His wife was in the United States to attend a family funeral.
We visited Hsinchu. To get there we rode this train. Because of its speed, it is called a bullet train.
A beautiful chapel in Hsinchu.
The Employment Resource Center for this part of Taiwan is housed on the ground floor of this building. It is very spacious and well-equipped.
Brother Wu is the Director of the ERS in Hsinchu. We had a good visit with him.
Work is exchanged between Sister Sparrow and Brother Wu.
1 comment:
Wow! Isn't it amazing to see our temples in the middle of the big congested cities. What great pictures. I feel like I am there with you. So proud of all the great work you are doing! Miss you.
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