September 23, 2016

Hello!

This week was pretty fun and I'm doing pretty good! I'm sorry I didn't really email last week but lately I have decided I am going to write better emails (I know this is probably the third or fourth time I have said that in the last year or so, but this time I'm serious) so I have lots to say today! I'll start with last week.

Last week was this mid autumn festival, one of the bigger holidays celebrated in Taiwan. All week people were out on the streets BBQing. On Friday we had a group of recent converts invite us over to one of their BBQs. We have a group of about 12 recent converts that have made really good friend with each other and they are always doing things together, it is great. Before we left they all decided we were going to play a game. Someone would pick a word and everyone gets to know what it is, other than the two missionaries. Then all of the Taiwanese will do there best to use English to describe the word and the two Americans needed to use Chinese to guess what it was. None of them had great English so it was  a pretty fun game. The only downside was that the looser of every round, either my companion or I, had to drink a cup of bitter tea. There are no tea leaves in it so it is ok to drink, it is actually pretty healthy, but it is tastes absolutely awful. It really lives up to his name. I won the first round and my companion almost threw up drinking it. Everyone else insisted that we still had to play five or six more rounds before we switched people. I could tell that there was no way my companion would be able to drink and more so I purposely lost every round after that, most of the rounds I ended up whispering the answer to my companion so he could get it right, and I had to drink quite a bit of it. It was a fun experience but I don't ever want to do that again.

We just had another round of transfers and another set of missionaries was taken out of our district, so we only have two companionship now. Our mission is also experiencing a shortage of missionaries so one of the other two elders in our district is just a member serving as a short time missionary for a transfer. English class is going to be a lot of fun now that we only have two american missionaries.

Our phone has a Chinese-English dictionary but ours uses simplified characters. Taiwan uses traditional characters so most of the time it doesn't do us any good. Last week we went to go see if we could get it fixed. The first phone store we went to didn't even look at the phone and told us there was no way to do it. The second place said there is a way to do it but they don't know how. The third place also said there was no way. The fourth place said the only way to get a traditional character dictionary on out phone was to upgrade to a smart phone and then she tried to sell us the new iphone 7. So we will just have to continue with a phone that doesn't have a good dictionary.

I have set a goal to finish reading the book of Mormon in Chinese by the end of the transfer.

This week at FHE we had a new RC in  charge of the spiritual share. They were planning on watching a short video but forgot to bring it with them. So he decided to pick a random DVD from the church library and put see what it has. He found a 10 min video labeled "commandments" and decided to use it. It ended up being a video of David interpreting Nebuchadnezzars dream. None of the people at FHE have been members for more than a few months and I know none of them have ever read the bible before so they were all very confused. It was pretty funny.

A few days ago we came across a crazy man on the streets. When he saw us he started stumbling toward us yelling "Please pray for me!". He was twitching and tripping over himself and could barely even stand. I pulled a tract out of my pocket and gave it to him. As soon as he touched it he stood up straight, polity said "thank you" and calmly walked away.

I have a few other good stories but I am almost out of time so I will have to wait until next week. For my birthday the only thing I can think of that I could use on my mission would be a new journal.

I love you all and I hope you have a great week!

Elder Wills

September 19, 2016

Thank you for telling me about all of that. And thank you for all of the effort that you have been putting in to send me positive, uplifting emails. I really do appreciate it. I know there really isn't much I can do from the other side of the world but I wouldn't mind staying as updated as  possible on anything that is going on at home. And if there ever is anything I can do, please don't hesitate to ask :)

I'm sorry I don't have much to report on the super Typhoon, Taizhong is  mostly surrounded by mountains so we don't really experience many big typhoons. I love you and I hope you have a great week!

September 11, 2016

Hello!

Is there any way I could apply to be an EFY counselor while I'm still on my mission? I don't know for sure if that's what I want to do yet but I have been thinking about it a lot lately, so if it is possible I would like to look into that more. And what exactly does it take to re-apply to BYU?  If I decide against the EFY counselor I'll probably just go back to school as soon as I can. Right now I'm still leaning toward some kind of international business. Because of a lack of information on a mission I don't know exactly what BYU has to offer, I've forgotten a lot of what options they have. Since being on my mission I have also talked to a few people that might be able to hook me up with some kind of internship in Taiwan on China. So right now I've got a lot of options and a lot of ideas and I don't really have a way to look at all of the details of these options in depth right now so I'm still not certain on what I want to do. Thankfully I still have a little time to decide for sure. Do either of you have any strong opinions or new ideas?

What do I wan't for my birthday.... A road bike, some nice hiking shoes, a go pro, the iphone 7,$1,000,000...... Nothing that would really be useful as a missionary. So this year you can just write me a card and call it good :)

A few of the highlights from my week are.....

1) We went knocking on doors to find new investigators and this is the conversation I had with someone (this conversation was in Chines)

me-"hello.."

Them-"sorry, I'm busy" (they were watching tv)

me-"we just...."

Them-"I'm sorry, I don't speak Chines"

me-"......you don't speak Chinese?....."

them-"nope, not at all. I don't understand anything you are saying."

Then they shut the door on us. Some people aren't very creative when it comes to excuses.

2)We taught the Plan of salvation to an investigator this week and his biggest concern was the spirit world.  He said there is no way that many spirits could fit in one place,  it goes against all of the laws of physics and geometry...He wasn't really willing to listen to what we had to say after that and he couldn't stop thinking about how overpopulated the spirit world must be. It was one of the more special concerns I have heard of.

3)We have an investigator that has been meeting with missionaries for a while now. A  few months ago we got her to church for the first time. It was fast Sunday and someone got up and told everyone that she came to the church earlier this week and a member locked her in a class room and took advantage of her, Which was not true. But after that our investigator  wasn't supper willing to come back to church. We finally got her to come back to church yesterday and what was the topic the bishopric had asked everyone to speak on? Dating. So all of the young single adult members in the ward talked for a few minuets and gave us all lots of dating advice. Hopefully we can get this investigator to a normal church meeting at least once.

That's about all I have for the week. I love you both and I hope you have a good week!

Elder Wills

September 4, 2016

Hello again!

Thank you for all of the advice you had for me this week, it should be a lot of help. Thank you!

Since I don't have access to the internet there are a few questions that I'm hoping you might be able to help me with.

1) when does the winter and the spring semester of BYU start?

2) what does it take to apply to be an EFY counselor?

3) what is going on with the presidential election? you don't need to give me to many details on this one, I don't want it to distract me from my mission but I would like to be a somewhat informed voter for the upcoming election.

I'm sorry I don't have any good pictures for this week. I don't actually think I remembered to take any at all....

This was a pretty typical week of missionary work and I am having a hard time remembering much of what happened... We have a few supper awesome investigators that are working hard toward their baptismal goals. On Friday I went on exchanges with Elder Johnson. Somehow I managed to break the rear axle of my bike. I don't know how it happened but I just took the back wheel off of an old bike that was left at our apartment when a missionary went home. 

I'm sorry, that's about all I have for the week. But it looks like you all had fun this last week and I hope you have another great one! I love you both!

Elder Wills

August 28, 2016

Hello!

Mom, it looks like you had a lot of fun this last week. The monkey you got a picture with look s just like all of the monkeys I have seen here in Taiwan. And the new temple looks awesome.

A few of my highlights of the week were...

1: when I was making night I was making a snack before bed and this guy crawled out of the wall right next to me. I had a hard time sleeping that night...

2: we were in a new part of town during dinner time so we asked a random man what there was to eat around there. He pointed us down a little road that ended in this dead end.... I don't know if there was actually a place to eat in there but we decided to turn around and find a new place.

3: Earlier this week 1 cat got in a fight with 7 dogs and the cat won. It was all over the national news.

4: We were talking to people in front of a mall when a man wearing short shorts and a bra started talking to us and then followed us around for the next ten minuets. Sorry I didn't get a picture of that 

one.

And here i​s another random picture of my companion and I making calls at a park last night.

Overall this week was pretty great but I could use a little advice on a few more things. Second, we have another investigator who is supper prepared and supper awesome. Last night she called me crying and told me that she suffers from depression and she doesn't want to live anymore. As a missionary I don't know what I can to to be there for her and help her. Do you have any ideas?

Thank you for the emails again this week. I love you both and I hope you have a great week!

Elder Wills

August 21, 2016

This is our "Investigator that we teach every morning

A little lizard I found in the church.

Another random temple in the woods.

The words on this statue translate to "Holy Heavenly Mother". I thought it was a little interesting.

Last one...

Sorry I had to send so many different emails, I can only get one or two pictures in per email.

I'm sorry I don't have a ton of time to write much, but at least I was able to send a few pictures. I love you both and I hope you  both have a great week!

Elder Wills

August 15, 2016

my camera still isn't working but my companion was able to email me a few of his pictures from the week. Sorry I don't have time to explain them.

August 7, 2016

Hello!

This week was absolutely crazy. There has been a lot happening in the ward lately so for a few months we had 4 elders in the same ward and we were still pretty busy. On Thursday Night I got a call from President Teh and he told me I need to be at the mission home the next day because I will be training next transfer and I need to go pick up my new companion. That was pretty unexpected and I wasn't given very much notice. When I was at the meeting the next day I got a phone call form the other elders in our ward, they are both leaving when the new transfer starts and nobody will be coming to replace them so my companion and I will be taking over everything that they were doing... So now my companion and I are in charge of all 18 recent converts in the ward, we have 8 investigators with a baptismal goal for the next few months, a few less active members we are working with and a bunch of other investigators without goals yet. Then on Sunday we had two less active members show up that said they want to start meeting with us and come back and we had four people randomly show up that want to learn more. So overall my companion and I have about 50 people we are working with on a pretty regular basis. I don't know how we are going to find the time we need for all of this and my companion has absolutely no clue as to what is happening. These next few weeks are going to be a lot of fun.... :)

So as you can probably tell there is a lot going on right now and I feel a little stressed out but there are also lots of great tings happening. My new companion is supper cool and I am really going to enjoy these next twelve weeks with him. His Chinese is significantly better than mine was when I first got to Taiwan and he is supper willing to work hard and do anything that needs to be done.  

Have you heard of the new app pokemon go? It is all over the place here and it is actually helping out with missionary work a lot. Its in interactive pokemon game where you need to actually go outside and walk around to find pokemon. for the last few weeks there have been a lot more people outside than normal and if you know a little pokemon vocabulary they are all supper friendly and willing to talk to you. I've also seen quite a few families out at the parks playing the game together. And the game is all in English so most people cant read it all and will sometimes come to us and ask us if we can translate for them. In my mind this new app pretty much counts as a miracle.

I don't know why but computers have stopped recognizing my camera when I plug it in so I don't know If I will be able to send anymore pictures. I can still take them but I have no way to get them onto the computer.

The last few months I have been doing P90X for my morning workouts but recently our mission president has changed the rules and we can no longer use P90X. So I'm looking for something new to help get me motivated to get out of bed in the morning. I have seen a few missionaries that have a few sheets of paper with "superhero workouts" on them. Could you try looking that up online and email them to me if you find anything that looks like it might be useful? If I don't have any kind of plan to follow I have a hard time getting in a decent workout in the mornings.

Thank you for the time you took to email me again this week. I laughed a little when you told me about Erin getting her teeth out.  I hope you have a great week!

Elder Wills

July 11, 2016

Hello!

This week was pretty great. we had a lot of good things happen and it was all a lot of fun.

I got to see the mission President a few more times this week. We had a "meet the President" meeting and he made a few big changes. When I first got on Island we had an additional rule book on top of the missionary hand book. I always thought it was a little unnecessary but I still followed all of the rules anyway. The first thing  President Teh did was get rid of the extra rule book. He has only been here one week but he has already started making big changes. Him and his wife are both from the Philippines. President Tehs family joined the church when he was 3, they were some of the first members in the country. When sister Teh was 17 her family joined the church and she met president Teh. They are both supper great. They also came to the baptism on Saturday and next week they are coming to our sacrament meeting. Our branch is officially turning into a ward and I might have to translate for the Tehs....

Wednesday morning someone told me that there was a huge typhoon coming to Taiwan and it should hit sometime in the evening. But in the evening it never came. So I asked someone about it on Thursday morning and they said it would hit in the afternoon. Then in the afternoon someone said it wouldn't hit until about 5:00. then when we were eating dinner at 5:00 we hear a  radio announcement that said it would be coming at about midnight. During planning Thursday night we got a text from the mission president and we were told we cant leave the apartment the next day because of how bad it was going to be. Everyone was talking about how big of a typhoon it was going to be but the Friday morning when it hit Taizhong it hardly rained at all and it only lasted about 5 minuets. So I don't really know what happened but it wasn't quite as bad as everyone was telling me it would be...

Saturday Nights Pictures

This is The Tehs with Paris and Rebecca.

The two on the right (Betty and Vicky) are sisters. It was a supper cool baptismal service and I am supper excited for all of them!

I hope you have a great week and I hop you keep on having lots of fun. I love you!

July 24, 2016

July 24

Hello!

This week was a lot of fun. we had a mini missionary with us for a week. There is a stake activity and a lot of the youth were able to go serve mini missions so this week we had an Elder Lin with us. He is 15, super funny and super willing to work. He is going to be a pretty good missionary one day.

This week I went running every day in the morning and we found a few pretty cool trails.

We also saw some banana spiders that were as big as my hand, we couldn't get any good pictures of that though.

I also have a short video I think you would like but I can't send it right now, hopeful I will remember next week. We made a deal with one of the recent converts in our ward, she lived up to her end of the deal so she got to dump a bucket of ice water on me. It was a lot of fun.

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just a few more weeks and I'm going to hit my 18 month mark. All of the sister from my MTC district will be going home. !8 months just doesn't feel like it would be enough time to do all of the things that need to be done, I am very thankful for the 6 months I still have left.

I love you and I hope you have a good week!

Elder Wills

July 17, 2016

Hello!

Our branch was officially made a ward yesterday! It was supper exciting and I think it helped get all of the members excited about the work.

The new mission President has really good English but he doesn't speak Chinese yet.

As I prepare for my day what is my favorite motivating scripture I like to refer to? Its always changing but over this last few weeks one of my favorite scriptures has been D&C123:17.

other than all of the rattle snakes the family reunion sounds like it was a lot of fun.

How long will you be in Japan for? Do you have any exciting plans for when you are there? There are lots of members here that have been to Japan and they all seem to like it a lot.

Rebecca is doing ok this week. She has a lot of ups and downs. this week was a little rough for her but I think she is doing better today.

Before I left Brother Howard said he wanted me to maybe look for a few members while I was in Taiwan. Do you know if he still wants me to find anyone?

Sorry this email is a little short and I forgot to take pictures again this week, I promise I will have a few for next week. I love you!

Elder Wills

July 3, 2016

Hello :)

Sorry I didn't actually get to email you last week. I was trying to figure out how to put captions on the pictures I downloaded onto dropbox for you and ended up spending a lot more time on it then I was planning. Is there any was to put captions on those pictures?

This weekend ended up being pretty crazy. We had a few investigators lined up with baptismal interviews for Saturday but then Friday night we found out that the mission president would have to come do the interview for one of them. But our President Blickenstaff just went home and President Teh just got to Taiwan a few hours ago. We were thinking that maybe one of his councilors could do it but then we found out that his councilors were all released earlier that day and he hasn't been able to call new ones yet. So we spent the next hour or so trying to figure out this interview and finally we were able to get it all set up for the next day. It was supper stressful getting it all set up but it all ended up working out pretty great.

My companion and I now have two Investigators that have told us we are like sons to them and that they need to take care of us. So you don't need to worry about me starving any time soon.

Mom: do you have a recipe for banana bread that you could send me?

The last few weeks I have mentioned an investigator named Rebecca a few times. She asked if you would be willing to help with a a few things. 1) she has some nutrient supplement type things she usually orders from China but they stopped shipping it to Taiwan. so she was wondering if there was any way she could get it sent to our hose and then you could send it to her in Taiwan. I don't know if that will actually work or not but she said she could cover all expenses if you are willing to help. 2) She asked me to ask you to pray for her and her two daughters, Dudu and Paris. There family has been through a lot and they are going through a few rough challenges right now. 3) Mom, she was wondering if she could have your Email address. She has mentioned a few times that she wishes she could talk to you. Her English is good enough that communicating shouldn't be to much of a problem.  

Happy 4th of July! I hope you all have a fun time celebrating and I hope you have a great week!

June 19, 2016

Hello again

I tried uploading a few pictures for you on dropbox with a few comments but I don't know if I did it correctly. This is my first time ever using dropbox so I wouldn't be to surprised if I was doing something wrong.

A while ago mom was telling me that Brother Manion was in the hospital, how has he been doing lately?

Is there any way you could send me a few family pictures? I don't have any digital copies of our family pictures right now. I also think I might send a package home soon with some extra books and things I wont need for my mission. Is there anything you wold like me to include in the package for any of you? It should take a few months to get from Taiwan to America so I don't think most kinds of foods would work but is there anything else from Taiwan that you have always wanted?

This week was pretty crazy, especially Sunday. Yesterday we left the apartment at 7:30am and we got home at about 10:30pm. We had permission from the mission president so you don't need to worry about me breaking any rules bot it was easily one of the busier days I have ever had.

Thankfully the rain has slowed down a little this week but it was still supper hot. On Tuesday we had a pretty good zone conference. It was the last one our mission president would ever do, he will be going home in about a week and we will be switching over to our new mission president. It will be interesting to see how that all works out.

I love you both and hope you have a great week!

Elder Wills

June 12, 2016

Hello!

Most of this week it has been reining pretty hard, I think Typhoon season is here. It's kind of fun to see some big storms but it makes it a lot harder to do things as a missionary that is constantly outside on a bike. Thankfully we have been inside a lot the last few days when it has been really bad.

Is the guy Erin met Jordan Rock? I think he just went home.

Grant told me he tried out for concert choir last week but he didn't tell me he made it, that is supper cool!

Have you looked at making a dropbox account yet? I can only send one or two pictures per email so I think a dropbox account would work a lot better if I wanted to send more than that or if I had any videos.

This is going to be Josephs first time at EFY, right? I think he is going to love it.

Most weeks we will spend a little time looking for less active members and we usually end up in neighborhoods that look like this.  I don't know how people ever get around on their scooters on roads like this..

This is us after FHE with Paris (Rebecca's youngest daughter). they are both doing great and have said they are excited for their baptism coming up in a few weeks!

I hope you both have a great week!

Elder Wills

June 5, 2016

Hello!

This was a pretty fun week. It has been raining a lot harder these last few days. It was raining rely hard this morning and we got soaked on the short bike ride over to the internet cafe. Rebecca (the investigator I was talking about last week) did set a baptismal goal with her youngest daughter, Paris, for 7-2. This week was  a little harder for her than last week, one of her old pastures and good friends passed away but we were able to meet with her a few times last week and she seems to be doing pretty good right now. We still haven't been able to meet with her older daughter but we talked to her and she said she could  come to church this week.

On Tuesday we got to go to zone conference and I finally got to meet the rest of the zone. It was  really fun meeting and I was able to get a lot from it. I think one of the best parts was  when the zone leaders scattered a bunch of tacks across the room and made an elder take of his shoes, blind folded him, and made his  companion guide him through all of the tacks. It was really funny to watch and a pretty good object lesson on Faith.

Chinese is still pretty difficult but I've started to really enjoy my language study time. I'm finally at the point where I can read most of the book of Mormon in all Chinese. There are about 3,000 characters that are used in the book of Mormon so there are still parts I cant read (especially the Isaiah chapters in 2nd Nephi) but it is fun to be able to read it without the romanized pinyin.

This week should be pretty great, hopefully we can find a few more people to set some baptism goals with! I hope you both have a great week!

Elder Wills

One of Mark's previous companions he saw on his temple trip.

May 29, 2016

Hello Again!

This week someone told me I look like Captain America, someone else said I look like James Bond and then someone else said I look like Superman. So I guess you could say it was a pretty great week.

Last week I mentioned an investigator that is supper great. He is planning on getting baptized in two weeks but a few days ago he called us and told us that he would be moving to Taipei. He is still doing great and I'm sure he will get baptized in the next few weeks, he will just be in Taipei when it does happen. We have also been meeting with someone else named Rebecca and this week we were also able to start meeting with her daughters. Last night they accepted a baptismal goal and they are doing great. I have only been here a few weeks but it is amazing to see how much she has changed in these last few weeks. She has been divorced twice and five years ago her oldest daughter died. All she would ever talk or think about is how sad she is and how hard her life is. But this week she had a huge change and is now one of the happiest people I know. She said that coming to church with her daughters has given them something to talk about and over these last few days they have improved their relationship a ton. It has been a great thing to see and I'm really excited to see where things go from here.

Do you all have any fun plans for the upcoming summer? I'v heard this is expected to be the hottest summer Taiwan has had in quite a while. It should be lots of fun...

I found a picture from the temple trip last week.

I had another picture but I cant figure out my camera again. Sorry.

I'm sorry I had to take a lot of money out this month. Usually we get about 7000 NT a month and that is usually enough but this month I only got 6000, I don't know why. and then I moved which was pretty expensive so I ended up taking out about 3000 NT this month. A few weeks ago I mentioned I was now doing P90X for my morning work outs and I think it has helped me lot with having more energy and just feeling better in general. I was wondering if I could work out some kind of deal with you to get some new shoes for it. Every work out starts out with a warning to not wear running shoes and lately my feet have started hurting a little after some workouts. I was in the hospital less than a year ago with an injured foot so I don't want to take to many chances if I can avoid them. So could I maybe ask for another really early birthday present? If not I should be able to get by with my running shoes for a while. 

Thank you for taking the time to send me all of those pictures and emailing me again this week. I love you and I hope you have an absolutely fantastic week!

Elder Wills

May 22, 2016

Hello!

This week was a lot of fun in my new area. The city I am in is called dongfeng, it is really close to the center of Taichung. It is very different then my other areas so far. First, it is still actually a branch. I was wrong in my last email when I said it was a ward, it has just started the process of becoming a ward and it will probably be made official in a few weeks. Even though it is just a branch the members area  lot stronger than the other wards I have served in. The members are supper willing to work with us and do there own missionary work. We even have an investigator that has gone looking for other people we can teach.  Second, our apartment isn't in our area, its actually not even in our zone so we need to bike a little was each day to get to our area. Third, we share our apartment with another companionship. They are both supper awesome so it had been a lot of fun.

The temple trip this week was also awesome! We went with another zone and on the was I ran into one of my past companions. We served together a while ago and at the time a had a little bit of a hard time working with him but we sat together on the bus to the temple and I'm happy to say that now we are great friends :) The actually temple part of things was really cool too. thankfully they had a session in English for all of us. If I move in the next few transfers there is a chance I wont get to go on another temple trip again until the end of my mission, so hopefully I stay here for a while, I wouldn't mind going to the temple again soon.

That's about all I have for now, I hope you have a great week!!

Elder Wills

May 16, 2014

Hello!

I'm sorry, I don't have as much time to email today. I moved again and now I am in the most northern part of the mission. I wasn't expecting to move because I was only in my last area for 3 months but I think I am going to really like it hear. Up until yesterday this was a branch but it was just officially made a ward.  I haven't met any of the members yet but I  have heard lots of great things about them. My new companion is Elder Heath from Utah. He has been in Taiwan for two transfers now so I am just is second companion. He is supper cool and seems like a hard working, dedicated missionary. I am relay looking forward to these next few months. And I am really looking forward to this Wednesday, I'm going on my first trip to the Taipei temple! Hopefully I will be able to get a few pictures. Do you maybe have a Dropbox account I could upload pictures to for you to see? We also just had a rule change recently and we can take videos now and if I ever wanted to send a video to you I think Dropbox would be easier for me. I love you both and I'll talk to you again next week!

Elder WIlls  

May 1, 2016

Hello again!

I still don't know anything about mothers day yet, so I don't really know what to do about that. I'm sure we will be able to figure it out though.

I finally got the garments. when they got to the mission home they accidentally forwarded them to an Elder Williams. He had to wait until Monday before he could send them back to the mission home and then they sent them to me. So it took me a little longer to get them them then it should have. Thank you for sending them to me. 

It's weird to think that it is still cold there. Its starting to get really hot it Taiwan  so I'm back to sweating 24/7 and doing my best to drink 50 gallons of water a day so I don't die from dehydration. But By now we are only a week away  from mango season, so there are a few good things about all of the heat. And thankfully we finally got an AC unit in our study room. studying your scriptures while you are reading scriptures is not very much fun.

The hose is probably going to feel really home with everyone home and Jared's 6 ducks.  Now if you just found a few rabbits and chickens and it would be just like the summer we had a few years ago :)

I'm sorry I don't have much to say again today but I'm looking forward to talking to you all soon!

April 17, 2016

Hello :)

I still don't know anything about Skype on mothers day, I will let you know as soon as I know.

I got some glasses but haven't been able to get my eyes tested and the real lens put into them yet. I pulled the money out to go do it but I didn't actually end up spending it on glasses... I'm sorry, I probably should have asked you first but I have been working really  hard on being healthy and having good work outs in the morning. But a few weeks ago a member was going to Japan and he mentioned something about how P90X is a lot cheaper in Japan and he helps a lot of missionaries buy it when he goes. So I had him get it for me too. Sorry for not asking before hand if it would be ok but on the bright side my workouts this week have been a lot better than they have in the past.

I still haven't had any mangos yet. The mango season should be starting any day now. I pretty excited. But pineapple season just started and I already had a few of those, they are supper good. But I'm going to have a hard time eating pineapple again in america, They will just taste really sour in comparison to the pineapple they grow here.

I don't really have a lot more to say about this week. We did talk to a few people at the end of the week that might have some potential to become new investigators and I think our relationship with the ward has been improving a lot. So I think these next few weeks should be pretty good.

Thank you for all that you do for me!

Love,

Elder Wills