Hey Mom!

Sorry this one is going to be a quick one but i did tell dad everything in the one that i was able to send to him. Not much has happened this week. It was really good but just really busy because we did a lot of traveling. We did have one day where it was only greenies in one city and that was awesome! it really was so much fun!. I prayed so hard the night before that i would be able to do something that day and i had no problem communicating. I really did feel the power of God and the gift of tonges. When i got back i couldn't speak as well but i really did learn about the power of prayer. The Lord is with me so much and i feel his help every day and he stregthens me so much. Next week i'm going to write more I promise that i will write more! I love you so much momma. I really can't tell you how much i love you through an email ha abut i have tried. Thank you so much for all that you do and being the best mom in the world. I will be sending you a Christmas package because i learned that a member does something really cool for the elders but she lives far a way so it will take a while so if it doesn't come in time sorry hahaha. I love you so much and all that i can think of is talking about enduring to the end and prayer. look up 1nephi 18:3. I never thought about that scripture before and look up 2 nephi 31 and 32. it has some way awesome stuff. Tell him that i am proud of him and sammi and that i love them both so much. I love you mamma.

-Elder Bryce Revelli

It does sound like you have your hands full. Just tell CC to start getting her hands dirty and helping with her car hahaha Well i will be home in about two years so it can wait that long haha i need something to do besides find a job and a wife. hahaha i thought you would enjoy that last one. It sounds like it is going to be tough to find a body for that car or expensive. We had a lot fo plans that we got done. Like the deck and the shed and a few other things hahaha. I will need some time to adjust when i get back so don't let me drive for a while. They drive on the opposite sid of the road here. One thing i was very surprised when i got here was the cars. They are actually really nice here and some of toyota's coolest designs are here. CC would love the little cars that i see everyday but they have some pretty good and nice cars here but like i said before most people just have scooters. I didnt get an email from bracken yet but i hope i get one soon from him. I think that would be awesome to hear from him spenc and allen. I want a ride in Johnny's car when i get home! That just sounds awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 I have always wanted to ride in one of those things and it sounds like grandpa really really enjoyed it hahaha. Most things here are actually cold. Every house that we go into they give us a glass of water with ice or from the fridge. So we get a lot of cold drinks here. I did learn that Thailand is actually the worlds leading ice production. I dont know if that is true at all but another elder told me that so its probably not. They do make really good smoothies here though. Not sure if i told you but there are 7 elevens everywhere so we are in there a lot and they have some of the best icecream there. I havent eaten a lot but my favorite so far is fried chicken with rice and papya salad. The salad is not like a normal salad at all. It is made with peppers, green beans, and sour papaya. It is even spicey for thai people tell keith that i will make it for him when i get back because it is super easy to make all you do is smash all of it together and i think that i will beable to find it all in the states. They also have this rotten fish sauce that is really good and a sweet chili sauce. There is just a lot of good food here and it is actually really easy to make. One thing that i love is getting food off of the carts. Here Buriram is famous for these carts of food that they just have meat on sticks and you just stand there and pick what ever you want dip it in a thing of sauce and they have a thing of cucumber there and you just eat until you are done. You ount your sticks and then you pay. I wish they had that in the U.S. hahah I will miss it so much ahaha. We ride about 5-8 miles a day. depending where we have to go and some people are very far away and everything is pretty far from our house. Somedays we ride a lot and others we dont ride very much. One day i was in a city call Surin and we rode a lot that day but some days we dont ride very much at all. One thing that you would love is that the cops dont pull people over unless people are not wearing helmets on bikes or scooters. The cops just choose a day and they all just sit in one place and pull people without helmets over but the ticket is only 100 baht so people just pay and still not wear a helmet. Not a lot has happened this week. We have been teaching this old man who is just way funny. He tries to speak english to us and he loves us. He doesnt understand a lot of what we teach but he wants to know. He is way awesome!

I love you so much Dad!

-Elder Bryce Revelli

This is something that Bryce emailed to Ciara

This week not a lot has happened. I had a cool experience on thursday with two elders that i was in the mtc with. All of our trainers had to go to a training conference and so they left us alone in a city for a day and said go out and work. The night before i prayed so hard for the ability to speak thai. The day that i got to the city I was having no probelm with the language. I understood everything and i talked a lot more than the other two elders. And words were just coming to me and i didnt even have to really translate stuff it all just made sense. I really learned about the power of prayer and faith. Just putting your trust in the Lord is the most important thing and just having faith that he will do it and always making sure to remember to ask if it is his will. The power of pray is so important. I always thought that it was just another thing to do but since i have been out here i thought about it and it is a way that we get to talk with our heavenly father directly. Doesnt that sound like the coolest thing in the world! hahaha so make sure you dont think about prayer as just another thing to do but make sure that you find time each day to just pour your soul to the Lord. We call it finding your own sacred grove. I did it and i promise you that it works. And if you havent yet ask him if everything that we have learned since we were little kids is true. I had never done that until i got into the MTC and i got my answer.

Hey Mamma!
That is way awesome that he got his call to Brazil! From what i heard they really need all the missionaries that they can get and i can see him being a very good missionary. I sort of remember Brenton and that suprises me too actually. I do remember Kathy Boyce and she was awesome! hahaha Tell her that i said hi and that I'm am doing great. Well I'm very glad that you were able to get the picture from president Smith and sister Smith. It was a pretty nice day that day. The weather here is actually similar to Utah. By that i mean that i changes all the time and usually without any warning at all. two days ago the sun was out and it was really hot and then we started teaching this family and it just started raining really hard. It did that for about 30 min and then it stopped and was nice and cool for most of the time and thewn the sun came out again. During that storm we had to go all the way across town to teach an old man who is the funniest person i have ever met. But it took us about 10 minutes to get to his house and it felt like i just got out of a swimming pool. Everything was wet except the stuff that i put into my bags. By the way, because i would have been over 50 pounds so i couldnt bring those zip locks so if you could send just some of those in my first package that would be really great.
Not a ton of exciting stuff happened this week. The people that we taught this week are awesome! We taught one person who was named surin and her family. We saw this apartment complex and we wanted to go inside but we have to get permission from the front desk or the owner before we go inside. no one was at the front desk so we just kept walking to the next house and it turns out that she and her husband were the owners. She was really excited to hear our message and she actually made her older brother come inside so that we could talk to her. She really believed in buddha and she took us upstairs and showed us all of her idols and stuff but she was really happy to learn about heavenly father and prayer. We asked her if she would come to church on sunday and she said that she would change her scheudule so that she could come. She came!!!!!!!!!! She said that she really liked what she saw and she wants to learn more this week! We havent met her husband yet and usually foreigners arent very open to learning from us. There will be a language barrier because he speaks german hahah s that will be fun and i cant remember any german that i used to know hahaha. We also met another person who spoke english with us hahaha we always just say whats up man to everyone and they dont know what to say but elder gudmundsen said it to a random peprson and we didnt expect him to say whats up bro and then he shook our hands and said that he had been in america for 3 years and just got back 2 weeks ago. He had a lot fo questions and so we gave him a book of mormon and asked him to read it and pray about it and he said that he would. We also have two people who really want to get baptized now where as before we didnt have any. One has been coming to church for 4 years and she just decided yesterday that she wanted to be baptized. She is really shy and said that she doesnt want anyone at her baptism besides pp[eople who really need to be there. The othe is a person we met while inviting and he learned with the missionaries before but he stopped and the missionaries just could get a hold of him but we found him and he is awesome. He wanted to wait for a couple of years but he changed his mind really fasst and wants to serve a mission. Other than that no much has happened.
I will end this email and if you could share it with the rest of the Family that would be great. I was reading in 1nephi 8-11. I cant remember which one it is in so you will have to find it but the angel talks to nephi and he says that the tree of life and the gospel is the most desirable and precious thing above all other things. I thought to myself that it is those things already but do we make it most desirable above all other things? I thought about it for a long time actually and thought about how ot\ften i put other things before the Gospel. I decided that I could do much better at that when i get home. Just a spiritualy thought for the week.I love you so much momma! Thank you for everything that you have done for me and being the perfect mother. I wasnt the best son that i could have been but i want you to know that i love you so much. You and dad always taught me to love people and to love the gospel and Jesus Christ. I dont think that i can ever thank you and dad enough for that. I love you both so much.
-Elder Bryce Revelli


P.S. We probably want to wait to come to Thailand. There are a few places that are really cool to go so but i cant as a missionary haha. Also there is a huge national holiday that week and it is kind of dangerous and really different hahaha i will explain more about it later but i will save my money but can we come back after I am released?




Hi Dad!
Buriram is pretty small compared to some of the cities. It is basically a college town but it is call a province. I dont know why but for some reason it is haha. It is surrounded by rice fields and they are the traditional things that you see. They are actually really pretty. There are a lot fo water buffalo and also very odd looking cows that really dont look like cows. There isnt much industry here. Most people just sell food, stuff, or they are construction workers. I thought construction was huge in america but they just build stuff here for no reason. They just start projects a lot and once they finish with that they start a new one hahaha. Like i said most peeple just sell stuff. and people have farms and then there are people who just dont work and then you have the monks. We are actually never even supposed to sit on scooters. I wish we could drive them but we never can hahaha. When we come here as a family though we have to ride in a tuk tuk once ha ha they are really fun. You would love driving here. There are no rules and cops never pull people over. There are speed signs but people dont know what they mean hahaha and people just kind of go where they want. The only thing you wouldnt like is that they drive on the left side of the road haha i'm trying to get used to that one.
I had a feeling that the jag would not be as good as they said it was. It ran ok but it has always had a lot of problems. It will be a fun toy for bracken to mess around witht when he getrs home. When i get home though i want to fix up the orange pick up and drive that around and help you with the charger so we can get you and mom driving in that car again. Things here are really good. The only thing that we struggle with is getting enough worthy melcesidek priesthood holders. They dont really stay active and no one knows why! I said everything in my general email but not a whole lot is going on. I love you dad and thank you for all that you do for me and all that you have done for me.

-Elder bryce rEvelli

Hey mamma!!!

Not tons happened this week either. That is way cool with all of the people leaving i know all the ones that you said and i hope they all do really well. I can see all of them being really good missionaries. We had a couple of things happen this week. We found a couple of people to teach but for some reason some of them are just not sticking. We had one person who we taught and he said that he really wanted to be baptized but when we went back to his house he was never there so we kept calling him and eventually he changed his answering machine to "elders i am really busy with work right now but i will see you on the 21st" It was pretty funny but we are wondering what happened. We did find a guy next door to his place named โอ. He is a christian and the fist thing that he said was to come in because at his house all christians are welcome. I dont know if he is catholic or protestant but we didnt even say who we were or what we were doing. Elder Gudmundsen and i talked after and there is a page in PMG that says that some people will just recognize that we are the Lords servants and that is how it was. He brought out his bible and was really excited to learn. The first thing that we teach is the Book of Mormon in this kind of a situation. We started teaching him and he said something that no christian in thailand ever says. He said that he learned in the Bible that just because God gives us one thing doesnt mean that he wont give us more. Usually they quote a part in revelations where it says that there will be no book after this one but they dont consider that the Book of Mormon was written before John wrote that hahaha but he took the Book and was going to read and pray about it. He talked about how his sister had come home from france and she was converted from buddism and came home and told them to throw out everything about buddha they had and they did. He was way cool but he had to go out of town for work and wanted to visit his girlfriend. Yesterday we also taught a person who was really being worked on by the spirit but was trying to deny it. The more that he tried the more he struggled with it and he couldnt express what he was feeling but he wanted us to come back so we are going to tomorrow. We also found someone who used to meet with the Missionaries but they stopped meeting with him for no reason and we have no record of him so it was really weird so he wanted to be taught again and wants to be baptized but he wasnt sure when yet.

Tell Wilson and his sister that I said hi next time that you see him. I didnt ever get to see him before i left which was a bummer. We did see a preview of the Harry Potter Movie and it looks so awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Elder Gudmundsen was rubbing it in my face that he gets to see it before i do hahaha but i would much rather be here and he said that he would too hahaha. I still dont like the fact that my church isnt going to be my church when i get home! how am i supposed to give directions to our church now hahah i cant just say look for the big brown building hahaha. Well that was about all that had happened this week. I did see 2 more elephants and this week i get to go on exchanges with a person who is from laos who doesnt speak english hahaha it will be an adventure. It sounds like everything is going well back at home but just keep me updated!

I love you so much mamma! ผม รัก คุืฌ

Hey Dad!!!!
Hahaha i still cant believe the boat wasnt fixed yet hahaha but it sounds like it should be good by the time that i get home. I did learn that i cant go fishing here but really the only place to go fishing is in a pond about 2 kilos away or in the pond in front of our house. There are cat fish there but they cant be eaten just because of how dirty it is hahaha. You will see it in one of the picturres and videos that we have but there was a freaking huge spider that was in our house. We killed it with bug spray and a lighter. It was really really fun hahaha. Read moms email because it has what happened this week so it was a really odd week though hahaha. Some of it i will tell you all when i get home. That is really weird what you said about fishing and people actually skiing on Schofield. I know i never saw anyone doing it whenever i went there for scouts. From what i saw right before i left it looked like everywhere was going to have a lot of water hahaha. How are grandma and grandpa doing? Tell them that they can email me and tell them thank you for the letters and that they meant a lot to me. I did see the big sign when we went out of the MTC that ariel fireworks were legal and we all cheered hahaha.
It will really be odd when I get home and have to speak at a different church. I dont like the idea of it hahaha and we have to walk a lot farther to eat at the moellers on fast sunday hahaha. I love you so much dad and thank you for everything that you have done for me. I love you and i know i can never thank you and mom enough.

-Elder Bryce Revelli

Hahaha i love how your subject was not much going on and your email was the longest haha just kidding mama i love your emails because you give me the most information haha. Steph sent me some pictures of Savannah and she looks adorable and nothing like Micah. She actually has hair. I will pray for the Johnsons and I will just keep them in mind.

I just really hope that he will be awesome, if you do see him tell him that i said hi and to have good luck when he goes. I agree with Ciara and Dad, i don't like the idea of going to that church when i get home. can we get a special request that ii just speak in the old building and that we just have a meeting where allen spence and bracken and i speak? hahaha By the way HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 Its kind of weird to think that im not celebrating that hahaha.

The branch in Buriram is very interesting. We have some very strong members and the branch president is pretty good but a lot of people are inactive. We only had one worthy preisthood holder to bless the sacrament so my comp had to go and help. We did invite a random guy off the street to come to church and he came but he was a very interesting guy but we are teaching him later this week at the church and hope that we understand him. a lot of people are just very prideful and don't get the point of every member a missionary so the branch is really struggling. Also the 1st counsellor/ward mission leader is inactice and was seen dressed as a woman last week so that isnt a good sign. Buriram is just a very rough area but it will get better. Its not the actual rejection but just the fact that what we have can really help their lives and they just say that they are very content with how they are. There are also budda statues everywhere and temples everywhere and people always say that every religion will always lead to the same place so we leave them a card and tell them to call us but i love it here. Thailand is just really funny sometimes. yesterday i talked to a drunk person and could sort of understand him but he was sluring all of his words but we are teaching him on wednesday and i think he will be sober hahaha. We did have two people who were going to get baptized but they move to Bangkok so we had to call the elders there and had to give them to them. Elder Gudmundsen wasnt very happy about that but things are better today. We have one english investigator but he also thinks that if we just believe we will be saved so who knows. He is the most christlike person I have ever met but he doesnt quite get why we talk to him so we have to work on that.
All the elders names were Clark, Kunz applyard, stott, richardson, radmall, raven, maples, christiansen, zitting. Most of us went to the east which is usually not the case but it happened. Usually most of us would have stayed in bangkok but that didnt happen. someone went way north but i cant remember who it was. Do tell Ciara that there are only monkeys in one area in the mission and it is closer to bangkok. I will send pictures next week because i really havent taken very many hahaha.

Alma 42:31 is the one that i want on there if thatas ok.
I want to end this email by telling you how much i love you mamma. I miss you so much and love you so muchand i know that the Lord is watching over you everyday. I love you and i dont think there is a better mom on the earth!

-Elder Revelli

This is one Bryce sent to his Dad.

I cant believe it has been that fast too! Your UVU class sounds like it will be interesting hahaha I would have laughed if the entire think would have been filled. What would you have done? Things are still going great in Thailand. My area is just one city and we are the only missionaries is the city. Its a college town so there are a lot of foriengners so we speak English every once in a while because they really cant speak thai hahaha. I thought that i was bad at it but they are worse than i am hahaha and they have lived here for a long time. Its all underground sewers but the toilets are very weird. We have a normal one but everyone else has a hole in the ground and it is a little hard to get used to hahaha. We have tuktuks, taxis, buses, trains, cars, and lots of motorcycles and scooters. Almost everyone has a scooter or motorbike here instead of cars. water is only safe to drink out of a bottle and you are basically right with the water buffalo and farmers hahahaha. Most people live in apartment shacks or old businesses. And everyone has a tile floor. almost no carpet and there are geccos everywhere inside and out. Sorry i don't have a lot of time today and i am already over but I love you Dad. You helped me out so much and I cant thank you enough for what you did for me. I love you so much Dad and i will make sure to work hard. I love You and thank you for everything that you have done.