Hey Momma!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That’s really good about Chase and tell his parents that I said hi.  Tell Alex and that family that I said hello and tell him good luck and that I will see him at his homecoming. Send me a couple of picture in the next email with Maija it seems like it was yesterday that I just saw her butIi want an up to date picture of her.  We did see Tangled in Thai on a bus and that was way funny.  There are some parts that are a lot more funny in Thai just because of the translation but Disney has really good translators.  It was funny because the next day my comp bought a copy of it for when he goes home haha.  We cant watch anything besides Finding faith in Christ and the District 1 and 2 which are really funny anyway haha it is about a district that is in San Diego.  It is all real life situations and real lessons that they are in and it is all real people.  It actually helps a lot with teaching.  CC said that she was happy the first week of school was over but that there was a lot more to go haha it sounds like you have a very busy schedule this year haha and it sounds like what you wanted to happen is happening. Tell everyone that I know in your classes that I said hi but there are not that many that are left in those classes or in the high school besides teachers.  I feel like I’m getting old now.

This is nice to hear that my old high school is no longer doing horrible hahaha.   They are actually doing good in football and it sounds like the student coucil shaped up this year.  I actually really do want to hear about American football.  I miss it and all there is around me is soccer and I’m actually starting to like it.  But I really miss American football.  I have only heard it mentioned once since I have been here and it was from a Thai person who had been to the states for college.

I really can’t wait to see how much Micah and my nieces have grown in 2 years.  I thought about it and Micah will speak better English than I can hahaha.  I already have forgotten some English words and now just use some Thai words so for my Christmas call if I say something weird just tell me when you don’t understand something that I say.  I finally feel like I’m progressing a little bit in the language.  There are times when I get lost and I just ask for my comp to translate for me or I just ask them until they use words that I am able to understand.  It has been a pretty good week but pretty normal.  One thing that wasn’t normal was the family that we have been teaching.  They are super golden and they do stuff and ask about stuff before we even teach them about these things.  The wife has already started going to the temple prep class.  They really want to be baptized but they have to be interviewed by president Smith’s counselors because of some complications.  We were teaching three people in English but one of them keeps dropping herself and then she has a question and then she will want to meet with us and then she drops herself again.  On Sunday I did get to stand in the circle to give the holy ghost to someone in sacrament and that was way cool.  The Power of the Priesthood really hit me hard this week.  I never realized everything that i am able to do with it and how much it helps people.  Next week we are going to an ancient temple about 80 kilos away because the branch president said that he wants to drive us out there to see it.  It looks way cool so when i go that is when i will send my memory card home.  And that is when i will send a picture for the plaque.

Tell brother and sister Hays that I said hi and that i love them and sister Boyce.  She was the coolest person ever when i ate dinner at the blacks house.  Of course tell Smith and Becky that i said hi and also anyone else.  Just a couple of things i had 2000 baht in my account and the next day it was gone?  I don’t know what happened because I didn’t draw any out.  Also I will get the package next week because that is when transfers are so I will let you know in the next couple of weeks.  I cant believe that my second transfer is almost over.  I feel like this is going by way to fast!  I felt like I was just in the MTC last week.  I can’t believe how fast it is all going right now!

I love you so much Momma! I never realized how much I miss you and Dad but I am focusing on the work.  Thank you for making me get up early in the morning all of those times.  You were literally preparing me in everyway. ( Even if I didn’t appreciate it then I do now haha)  I love you so much I cant describe it.  I love you!

-Elder Bryce Revelli

Hey Dad!!

I'm glad that you all got the picture that I sent.  We use public internet places and the band width is not very good in the other one that we use so I wasn’t sure if it had finished downloading before I sent it.  I actually haven’t ridden any elephants yet but there is an elephant village half way between here and Surin that I really want to go to but I’m going to go to some ruins first and then to the village.  That is the same thing that we talk about in all of our branch coucil meetings.  And coordination meetings and anytime that we meet with any member.  The problem here is that people lose their fire after becoming members.  My area has about 100 members and only about 20 come to church each week.  one week we had more visitors than members and that was just not good at all.  I talked with my mission president about it and he said that is about the same all over Thailand.  I don’t know why but this place is struggling but we are finding really really good people everyday.  We actually teach a lot in English.  One mans name is Roger and he is awesome.  He came to Thailand to start an orphanage and just to help schools and to preach the gospel.  He is so close if he would just pray about the Book of Mormon.  He really wants to know but he never asks about it in prayer and he really relies on his own understanding.  We have another family that is way awesome but because of some stuff they have to be interviewed by someone higher up than us but after that they are golden.  They already went to a temple prep class and they love the church and all of the members.  This last Sunday I got to be in the circle for someone to get the holy ghost.  I never really knew how much power the priesthood has.  I always knew it had it but I never realized the power that we actually have and that it is literally the power of God.  I just thought about it a lot in the Sunday.

Cross country always sounds fun as usual hahaha and I already know that there is always one parent who thinks they know more than the coach.  I don’t think that Moms car will every be all the way right ever hahaha it seems like when ever I helped we would fix one thing and then a little while later something else would go wrong with that car.

I wish that I could help with this camp too!!!! I would have loved to be on staff for it and i could have gotten my wood badge done so I could have been a leader in the next camp.  That will be way cool!  You will have to tell me how that goes.  Of course tell the bishop and all my old leaders that I said hi and that I’m doing well.

I love you Dad.  there isn’t much more that I can say than that.  You have prepared me so much to do this work.  There isn’t a day that goes by that I do something that I did at home or that you taught me to do.  I love you and Mom so much.  Have a good week and I will talk to you again on Monday.

-Elder Bryce Revelli