Tsai Family of the Parklands

After more than a decade of absence from the island, our family finally had an opportunity to revisit Taiwan.  It was Megan's first trip, but even for our teenagers they had forgotten the previous visit.  So with a lot of planning, our trip finally began on March 24. After a long plane ride, we were greeted by our old friends, the Pascual's.  Meeting the Pascual's again was like a reunion with family not seen for many years.  Sweet and memorable were our embraces.  We only stayed with Pascual's one evening before touring the famous Ali Shan.  The trip to Ali Shan was long and tiring.  When we arrived there, it was very cold.  Luckily the Pascual's had lent us jackets to survive the journey.  Despite these challenges, we were able to view the floating clouds at sunset and the beautiful sunrise.  The next day, Li-Fang was able to visit her old art teacher and walk onto the campus of her high school.  Although many things had changed, she was able to find her old dor

On Sunday, March 14, we were privileged to have invited into our home some of the greatest missionaries to serve in Taiwan in the 1970s and 1980s, who live in the Washington DC area.  It all started when my wife was looking for the missionaries who served in Hsingying, Taiwan, during her high school years.  The two missionaries that she remembered were Elders Cunningham and Heaton.  Amazingly she was able to locate these two missionaries through the Kaohsiung Taiwan Mission Alumni web site.  We were able to contact Elder Robert Heaton, who is living in Northern Virginia.  Both Robert and his wife, Lynda, were able to come to our home Sunday evening.   In addition, we thought it might be fun to also invite other Taiwan return missionaries living in the area.  We were lucky to be able to invite all one in night our very good friends and returned mission aries from Taiwan: Tim & Robin Stratford (both are returned missionaries from Taiwan; Tim served as mission president in the Taic