Typhoon Soudelor

For anyone who may be watching world events here is an email we received from Mark's mission president today.  Mark is in Tainan which is further south than Taichung.  He is almost as far west as he can get.  I checked the weather, there is 100% chance of rain for the next 2 days but it looks like he should be ok.

July 6, 2015

Hello Everyone!

Its a little crazy to think about but I have been in Taiwan for ten weeks now. 

Its always super hot and humid and I'm always working and sweating but serving a mission is incredibly satisfying.

June 29, 2015 - Letter to Mom

I thought I would include the letter Mark wrote to me this week. 

Hi Mom :)

The language is still really hard, I don't really see any progress from day to day but I am slowly getting better at it. The ward is pretty great. There are about sixty active members and our ward currently has 4 full time missionaries all serving in California and Utah and there is one other expecting to get her mission call any day now. We don't have a huge ward but we still have a lot  of great members. 

June 29, 2015

Hello Everyone!

These last few days have been a little crazy. today we just started the third week of the transfer, so we are half way through it. two nights ago we were sitting down for our daily planning when we got a phone call from the mission president. He was making a few changes and My companion needed to go to the opposite side of the mission to be a zone leader so I would be getting a new companion. It was completely unexpected. Moving in the middle of the transfer is pretty uncommon.

June 14, 2015

Hello!

So far think one of my favorite parts of Taiwan is all of the fruit. There is a ton of it and it all tastes amazing. Most of the people here are really nice so often when we are going from door to door the people will tell us they aren't interested and then give us something to eat. Earlier this week we contacted one street and by the time we were done we had a pineapple, a watermelon, a few guavas, three mangoes, some plums and a pumpkin. I'm not really sure what to do with the pumpkin, but the rest of it was really good.

June 7, 2015

Hello everyone!

This has been another pretty great week. Today was the start of my second transfer here in Taiwan, Its crazy to think that I have been out here that long. the language is still pretty hard but I am slowly improving. 

June 1, 2015

As a mother, I'm excited he finally sent a picture with him in it.  Mark has been fighting illness since he got here.  The mission president's wife gave him some antibiotics last week and he is finally feeling better.  




Hello!

This has been another awesome/absolutely crazy week in Taiwan. One Tuesday we had a ton of lessons set up but every single one of them either got canceled or the person just never showed up. One Wednesdaywe weren't able to set up any lessons either   so we decided that we would go to a few towns in our area that we have never been to, and try to find people there.It was a pretty long bike ride with some mountains