August 16, 2015

I love finding photos of Mark in Taiwan.  He is always smiling.  His letter follows the photos.

Celebrating September, October, November birthdays in Tainan.

August 10, 2015

I found a huge snail a few days ago. I thought Jared would think it is cool.

Hello Everyone!

Well this week I survived my first typhoon. It was pretty exciting. There was lots of wind and lots of rain.

August 2, 2015

Its been another pretty great week of missionary work in Taiwan. There was lots of biking around, talking to random people on the streets and and a few really great lessons. Last week we met a 19 year old guy on the side of the road that said we could come back.

July 12, 2015

Hello Everyone!

This has been another pretty great week full of missionary work. Last week we were biking past a building when my companion decided we should stop and talk to the people inside. We found out it was some kind of retirement home and them my companion told them that next week we wanted to come by and play music for them. My companion has a violin he was going to play but I don't have a guitar or anything so I figured I would just watch most of the time and maybe we would sing a few hymns together. Before going we were able to recruit a family to

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.