Blessings in Taiwan along correct course

Published: Friday, May 22, 2009 12:07 a.m. MDT
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TAIPEI, Taiwan — Many faithful young men and young women in Taiwan serve Mormon missions and marry in the temple. Following are the stories of four couples who did both.

SHIRLEY AND BEN TSAI

First impressions are tricky, as Shirley Sun discovered in a "Building an Eternal Marriage" Mormon institute class for young single adults in Taipei, Taiwan. She pegged Ben Tsai as a "cocky guy trying to speak English and acting like no one else in the class knows English."

But the truth was that Ben, raised in Taichung, Taiwan, had recently returned from serving in the Idaho Pocatello Mission. Since relatively few people in eastern Idaho speak Mandarin Chinese, he had communicated almost exclusively in English for two years and had gotten out of the practice of speaking Chinese. So when he would respond to questions, sometimes the English words would pop out.

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