He is in Taiwan!

Yes I am one of those moms.  I didn't think I would be, but I am excited.  Earlier this week we got an email from Mark's mission president.  He assured us that he was personally picking up all 30 of the new missionaries at the airport today and that he or his wife would update the mission blog as soon as they could.  I checked many times this morning until I saw the update.

Check out the mission blog:

 http://taiwantaichungmission.blogspot.com/

Off To Taiwan

We didn't get much in the way of letters this week.  Mark was scheduled to leave Tuesday morning, as long as the doctor said it was ok.  We got a little update from him yesterday afternoon....

April 13, 2015 Letter

I received a phone call last week from the infirmary in the MTC.  Mark had injured his foot last October, it had started bothering him so he went in to get it checked out.  (I found out from Elaine that he did have it checked out at the BYU campus clinic and was told he was fine.)  They wanted to let me know that they had scheduled an appointment with a specialist to have things checked out before he left for Taiwan.  We just got the most recent update from Mark.  (I might add, it is such a wonderful feeling to know your son has been walking around on a fractured foot for months.)

April 6, 2015 Letter

Hello Everybody!

I hope you all had a Great Easter! I really enjoyed this week, especially the last few days with general conference. We got to relax for and just listen to lots of amazing talks for a few hours. And it was pretty nice to hear someone speak in all english, that doesn't happen very often here. And then after all of the amazing talks BYU Vocal Point came to perform a devotional for us last night, so overall this has been a pretty awesome weekend. 

Other than that this week was just a lot more of sitting in a classroom and learning how to be good missionaries. I just have a little over two weeks left at the MTC and then hopefully I will be off to Taiwan. It's pretty crazy to think about, In two weeks I will be in a completely different country teaching the gospel. In a way I feel like I am nowhere near ready to go teach in a new language but at the same time I'm getting super excited to get out into the mission field and use all of this new stuff I have been learning.

I hope all of you are doing well and that you are having a great time with school, work, or whatever else you are doing. You are all awesome!

Elder Wills 

March 30, 2015

Hello Everyone!

This last week just flew by. Its crazy to think that in just a few more weeks I'll be in Taiwan actually teaching people. While we are here at the MTC we have lots of different teaching opportunities. we teach our teachers and we teach each other. on Saturdays we get to teach volunteers that come into the MTC for a few hours. Last time my companion and I taught a Lady from Taiwan and the time before that we got to teach a man from China that didn't know much English. It was pretty cool but understanding their accents can be pretty difficult  sometimes, but I guess I will have to get use to that pretty quickly. Later today we will be skpying someone and teaching them a lesson. We don't know who we will be skying yet but they will probably live in Taiwan.

Not much else has been happening this week. Mostly just learning more Chinese and how to teach.

Sorry this E-mail is so short, hopefully I  will have more to talk about next week. Anyway, I love you all and i hope you are all having a great day!

Love, 

Elder Wills