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.)


so I was able to go in to a foot specialist to get my foot checked out last wednesday. He found a fracture in one of the bones and there is another bone that is out of place. He gave me some new insoles for my shoes and a bunch of exercise things for me to be doing. I'm going to go back in this week and hopefully he has some good news for me. I'm glad i did decide to go in because he told me if i went to long without getting it checked out it probably would have ended with the bone cracking in half. But it has been getting a little better since i went in so i don't think it will be a problem :)

(--Mark)

Here is his most recent letter.

Hello Everybody!

Earlier this week we all got a letter telling us that we got our visas. Lately there have been problems getting visas for taiwan so most missionaries going to taiwan get reassigned for a few transfers before they are able to go.  So my district will be the first ones to go straight from the MTC to Taiwan in years. We also got out travel plans so at 3:00 am the 21st I will finally be on my way. I'm super excited to finally go, I feel like I have been at the MTC forever. I'm still nowhere near fluent in the language but I'm sure that will come pretty fast when I get to Taiwan. 

Other that getting our visas it hasn't been an extremely exciting week. Just a lot more teaching and learning chinese. All of my teachers served there missionary in Taiwan and just got back a few years ago, they have been telling us lots of stories about their missions and what it is like over In taiwan. Most of it sounds pretty awesome, but they did all say there are lots of huge spiders over there. I'm not really looking forward to that, But everything elses sounds pretty awesome. Its hard to believe that in just over a week I will finally be in Taiwan.

I hope you are all having a great time with school and work. I love and miss you all.

Elder Wills