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" LDS Church 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.



Shirley and Ben worked through those early impressions and capped their individual paths from convert to missionary with an eternal marriage in the Taipei Taiwan Temple on July 2, 2005.

They shared thoughts about their journeys during a Church News interview in their apartment nestled in the lush green hills of Taipei.

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