Another Funny Story

Looks like Grant receives the funny stories.  Mark sent this to Grant on Monday.



So I just had another funny story I thought you would enjoy. 

A few days ago I was at the gym with the rest of the elders in my district and we were all lifting weights. As we were getting to the end of our work out we were all pretty exhausted and it was still pretty intense. One of the Elders in my district was next to me lifting his weights and in between reps he started talking in Chinese. I think He meant to say "I am so strong" but he actually yelled "WE.. ARE... SO... Pretty!" I almost dropped my weights on myself and then I almost died of laughter. It was just pretty funny to see a guy working really hard in the gum and then start yelling about how pretty he is. 

Anyway, I hope you found that at least a little funny and feel free to share it with Jared and Joseph. I hope you are having a great time in Minnesota and I'll talk to you again next week  :)

Elder Wills

March 23, 2015 Letter

Hello Everyone!

Its crazy to think that I've been here for over a month now but that means I have less than a month left before I'm done with the MTC. Its great here but I can't wait to get to Taiwan. Everyday I learn so much more, Its amazing how much we can accomplish with the lord on our side. I'm definitely not fluent yet, not even close, but I am understanding so much more now. Earlier this week we were teaching a lesson when our "investigator" asked about Lehi's vision of the tree of life and the iron rod. So I spent the next ten minutes trying my best to explain what the vision meant. I think my companion was just trying his best not to laugh at me  as I did my best to tell about the vision in Chinese. I doubt anyone understood most of what I was trying to say but in the end the "investigator" said that they understood.  

March 16, 2015 Letter

Hello Everybody!

Its crazy to think that I have been here for almost a month now. Time seems to pass really slowly while I'm here but then I look back and realize how fast it is actually going by. Learning Chinese is pretty difficult but it is amazing how fast we are all learning it. I'm still nowhere near fluent but most of the time i can understand what my teachers are talking about. I have been learning so much here and it has been pretty great but I cant wait to get to Taiwan, sitting in the same tiny classroom for ten hours a day gets old pretty fast. But I'm almost half way done here a the MTC and I'm sure this last month will fly by. 

Week 3 At the MTC

Hello Everybody!

Everything has been pretty great over here. I feel so lucky to have been put into the district that I am a part of right now. Everyday I learn more about the people in my district and I feel more and more blessed to be with them. There is one Elder that is training to be a Navy Seal, another one that went all over the country to ride bulls in rodeos, another one has a you tube channel and makes thousands of dollars off of it every month, One of the sisters had a black belt in multiple forms of martial arts. I could just go on and on about all of them.

Learning Chinese is still just as difficult as ever but I've been improving a lot.

A Funny Story

Mark sent Grant a funny story this week.

I forgot, there was a funny story I wanted to tell you. On Tuesday we had a devotional with everyone in the MTC, so there were hundreds of people there. I was sitting next to one of my friends from my district and he fell asleep. During the prayer he started talking in hi sleep a little bit so i was about to wake him up when ll of a sudden he started yelling then he fell out of his chair. Because it was in the middle of the prayer i'm pretty sure everyone heard him so he woke up on the floor with hundreds of people staring at him and he was supper confused. It was pretty funny and it reminded me of you because sometimes you talk in your sleep too. Hopefully you never fall asleep in a devotional and start yelling like that ;)

Week #2

UPDATE TO LAST LETTER:  The "investigator" was an old friend from our days in Salem.  He called the night Mark entered the MTC to tell us to check our facebook.  Mark thought he recognized him but he gave a different name and talked with an "accent", so Mark just figured it wasn't who he thought.


Hello Everyone!

So far my second week has been just as good as the first. They have been keeping me pretty busy lately, most of the day I'm doing my best to learn Chinese with just a little bit of  time for lunch and dinner worked in there somewhere. It feels like I have been here for much longer than just two weeks, it feels more like its been a few months. I wish I could just leave for Taiwan already but I know I will need all of the help I can get here at the MTC before I leave.