9/16/12

Hey Mom and Dad,

This last week sounded pretty aweosme for all of you.  Ciara did tell me abou tthat and Dad that sounds like a pretty good day.  I started really laughing about  Shaylins husbands shot hahah i could jsut picture you and Keith and what you were thinking about when he did that hahahha.  That really surprised me that i have to deside what i want to hunt for next year.  Put me in for Deer once in a life time,  Also for Antelope and Elk.  I want Moose but i want to be ready for that when i get home so i want to practice some shooting because i will be rusty for sure.  '

Ciara looks way tall now!  I noticed in that picture that she is tall.  She might even be taller than me.  Thai people are going to be loving her and how she is so tall!  

Im sure that Bracken loved being with the missionaries.  I would love to do that when i get home too.  I want to really help them teach.  Just so that i could see how it is done again.  

Well this last week was really good!  We had a really good week this last week.  It has been raining everyday but the coolest thing about this week was the amount of referrals that we have been getting from members and investigators.  We have gotten over 4 people this week and 3 of them are families that are close by the recent converts.  It was just a really good week and this next week will be even better.  So we taught a really good lesson with a 17 year old sone of a recent convert and he is progressing raelly well and he brought his new girlfriend over that was 20.  It was really funny when he picked up the law of chastity pamphlet and started reading it while we were teaching his girlfriend.  You could tell that he was really looking at it and pondering what was in there.  The funny part is when we were just takling right before the lesson and he asked me if she was pretty and while she was looking i mouthed to him in Thai if that was j=his new girlfriend and he said yes and we jsut laughed.  I didnt answer the first question hahaha.  Anyway but i love that family so much and they are so special to me.  I keep liking every area mroe and mroe. We also had a really cool thing happen this ssudnay.  We were getting ready to go home and then i got a feeling that we neede to go and visit this old investigator that i had met once but never sat down with him,  When we got there he invited us in and we sat down and talked for a while and then we opened with a prayer.  We had an amazing time and he asked what he needed to do to be clean from sin.  We taught about baptism and Christ and that through baptism he will be clean.  The spirit was so strong and you never know what will happen when we follow those impressions from the spirit.  It could change someones life and help their salvation.  

I love you all so much and please do something fun this week.  I lvoe you so much

Elder Revelli

9/9/12

Hey Dad and Mom!

That is way aweosme that Kimbal got to go hunting that same deay hahahaha.  I think that is way funny.  It made me think about the night that i was set apart that i forgot and almost started watching tangled again.  You will have to tell me how everything went in 94.  I feel like i haventl been there forever.  I know that the last hunt that i did was in 99 but it was still very good.  I ill make sure that i will e safe this week.

This week was pretty good.  We had a rough start but it was a really good finish.  We have been doing realyl good and we met a really cool person just yesterday.  It really strengthened my testimony,.  She did not really have time or want to be preached to but we were jsut there to listen to her.  Her husband jsut died 4 days ago and he was still  being cremated.  It takes a couple of day i guess and the next day that she was going to collect the bones and take them to Japan.  She is thai and he was Japanese.  They are very very wealthy and you could tell that she was fighting back tears when she was talking to us.  We talked about eternal families but she was not willing to pray becasue she waid thtat her heart was not full right now and that she needed some time.  After that we just started talking about our families and just about life and she really cheered up after that.  We met her children who just finished being monks as part of the cerimony and they were both ereally really funny.  It was a very good family and by the time that we left she gave us water and a lot of this sweet bread stuff that was really good and she said that after she gets all of her affairs in order and then she said that she would like to talk to us more.  By the time that we left she was laughing and that just made me so happy.  It also really humbled me because it made me realize that sometimes that is all that they need.  They jsut need a a friends and  a warm smile.  They jsut need to be lifted up by the light of Christ and they will eventually listen in the future.  

It was a very good experience and i really felt the spirit very strong.  We are finding a lot of people now and it has been very awesome!  The Lord is really preparing a lot of people here and thailand is really starting to explode.  I love what president Senior said.  "It is Asia's turn" talking about other missions all over the world have great success.  We have noticed the great success and the blessings of the Lord are really being wrought upon the land.  Thank you for everything that you are doing for me.  If you could just send deoderant and razor blades.  Usually those are the only things that i need.  I lvoe you so much Mom and Dad.  I love the rest of the family and i hope you have a really good week!.  

Elder Revelli

9/2/12

Hey Mom and Dad,

ok so that place is call the Elephant village but not a lot of people know about this one.  It is actually a farm where they train the e;e[hants.  That are way awesome and you get to feed them and if the boss is not there you get a chance to ride them but the bosswas there so we didnt get to ride them.  The members will take us there when we come back to that place and they will take us for free.  I never thought that i would every be doing something like this when i first submited my papers to be a missionary.  MY kid was a lot more excited because it was the first time that he had ever seen an elephant.  I feel like when i go back i want to take one with me.  Just a small baby one and let it grow up.  Do you think that the horses would get a long with it?  hahahahahahahahahahaha.  The odd thing is that i am actually older than all of those elephants in that picture.  

This last week another family was baptized and they are so awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Their kids will be baptized very soon!!  The work is going forward very fast all over thailand right now.  We are almost at a 100 baptisms a month mission wide and we are about the have 3 stakes and after that it wont be very long until we have a temple.  We are so close to getting a church building in this area!  We just need 15 more people at church and the church will then buy land for a church and once we have 80 people at chruch we will have a building.  I love this place so much and even though i had a cold for most of the week we worked very hard.  I figured that i could just lay at home and be miserable or just get to work and rally help other people and that was a much better option.  I love it so much more than just sitting down.  

My comp is doing really good now.  He is getting better and better at the language.  I love this work so much but a lot of people say that i will be a district leader after this transfer but i really have no idea about that.  My prophesy is to be a district leader for 1 transfer then become a zone leader in a place  up north called Chiang Mai and end my mission with Elder Richardson or Elder Stott.  That is our dream but the Lord might have something different in store for us.  

Yes Dad most of the area is like that.  I love this place so much!  It is so beautiful and the sunsets and sun rises are the most beautiful that i have ever seen.  I love this place so much and i cant wait for you all to see what i have been doing for the last two years.  The people you will meet are so specialto me and you will find out why.  

Dad That is a really good and i just started laughing really hard when you said that star wars quote. hahaha I love it so much but my comp does not like to watch star wars haha so that was what i needed hahaha.  Well I wanted to share one thing that i read in the scriptures in the van to the sports day.  I was reading in Alma 60:24 and this is one thing that you both have taught me since i was a little kid.  I have not been the bestat following there but thank you for teaching me.  It is talking about Moronis epistle to Pahoran.  And Moroni says "... begin to be up and doing..."  I just really loved that when i read it and that is the motto for this transfer.

I love you so much and have a good week. 

Transfer Day

                  Bryce with Sister Tuk and his new companion Elder Pearson.

8/26/12

Hey Dad and Mom,

 

This week was pretty fun.  We worked really hard with everything and we had a lot of success.  It didnt show up in the numbers all of the time but we felt like we really did our best to bring people to Christ.  That is crazy about the antelope season.  I wont be able to shoot a gu very well when i get home but i will have to practice a lot before we actually go out and hunt. 

 

That is way funny that you have Brennen in a class.  How is he?  Is he the same old bren that we all new before?  I cant wait to start going througha dn helping with family history when i get back.  The family history work that goes on here is very hard.  They are not very good at keeping records unless that are from China.  The chinese take very good records and so they can trace their family back for a very long time.  But if they are really thai they have a really hard time doing that.  Most of the time all that they will have a a name on a wall of a temple.  Because of the flooding they are getting destroyed.  I am very happy that we have records that we can work with back there.  This next week we will be having a baptism for a family that is so awesome!  I will send you pictures when it happens and then after that we have a baptism almost everyweek in September! 

 

That is about all for this.  We are doing very well.  Tell Emily that i said hi and that i am way excited for her to be a missionary.  She will love it so much.  Here there are about 3 seasons.  Now it is in the raining season.  It gets super hot during the day and then in the evening it rains really hard.  In december it gets to about 70 degrees and thai people just freeze.  Actually i have noticed that i have been getting cold more often now.  I will freeze when i get home haha.  Well not much is going on.  My comp is doing great!  We are working on the language but he is learning fast.  By the end of the 12 weeks he will be a better missionary than i am for sure!  That is actually the point of the training.  I love you so much Mom and Dad. 

 

Mom that is a great number because it will be easy to remember.  Also i will be talking with the office today because i am in bangkok for an interview.  I love this place so much and i know it is coming the the end soon ish but i just like taking thw words of President Uchdorf and just staying in the middle of my Miision.  I love this so much!  Thank you for your prayers and for your example to me.  I lvoe you so much and have a really good week.

 

Elder Revelli

 

ps tell my "dad" and "grandpa" that i said hi. 

8/19/12

Hey Mom and Dad!!!!!

This week was a pretty crazy week.  We were realyl busy and it was way crazy Elder Bennett did move and i dont know how you know this stuff so fast!! It freaks me out sometimes that you know everything before i even think about telling you hahaha.  Elder Pearson is way awesome.  He is from a small town in Oregon.  He is really excited about the work and just sreally good.  He is not like i was at all when i was a greenie.  He is just willing to speak and try out some new things everyday.  He is very awesome and he is just so happy all of the time.  I love him so much and Elder Gudmundsen would be proud of his grandkid and Komkrit would be proud of his great grandson hahaha.

This week a family was baptized and it was just so amazing to see them baptized.  They have waited a very long time to be baptized.  We really didnt do very much for them but they still thanked us for \helping them ghet to that point.  They are such a special family!!!  I love them so much and they love Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ so much.  They know who they are and what they need to do to have eternal life.  I love this work so much and sometimes it is over whelming and i feel like i am not worthy to be here and doing such a great work.  I know that it is not from Heavenly Father but i just wish that i could do so much more.  

That is way crazy about everything that is going onat home.  So many people are going on Missions and getting married and all of that stuff.  I love hearing all of this news because people are just really happy.  Not much else is happened this week.  Yesterday the rain was really really bad and my kid was just blown away from how much water there was.  I  love this work so much!!!! I love this branch and this work so much.  Please pray for Elder Pearson and I to do all that we can and have the strength to do it. I love you all so much.  Thank you so much for your prayers and all that you do for me.  

Have a good week at school.  I love you so much and talk to you next week.

Elder Revelli

8/12/12

Hey Mom and Dad,

This week was a pretty good wek for all of you all.  Well i am doing really well.  I really dont feel that tired.  At first i did but then i realized that is was the fact that i was not used to riding my bike as much and as hard i i used to do.  When sitting in a van and driving all day was my old life it was very nice to be active again.  We are working very hard and we are seeing a lot of success.  I really am doing great.  I want to see pictures of the water feature asap.  It sounds like it is really cool so if you cn with the next email make sure that oyu send some out.  It is interesting because we have had to feel that same spirit of direction every day.  The days that we didnt prepare properly were some of the longest days because we didnt have that same spirit that we would have if we had prepared right.  The spirit is so essential in the work here.  It jus makes everything better.   I love this work so much and i really just have wanted to get lost in the work and I feel like i am getting better as i go and i know that i will know what i am doing when i finish hahaha.  I really am doing good.  Tell the bishop that i said hi and tell Dakota that he is going to love it here so much and that i a way excited that he gets to come to Thailand.  The Thai people will love him.  

This last sunday was probably the highlight of the week.  We had so amny members go to the district conference.  It was way awesome to see that 4 investigators were able to go.  Only a couple were able to go from the one family that we are teaching but they really lovd it and it was a good opprotunity for them to see and meet so many other members.  It was really nice seeing all of the members that i have known over this mission.  They all remember me.  They dont really remember my name but they know who i am.  They cant remember my name because they cant say it very well but they are all so amazing!!!  I now know what Ammon was talking about when he talked about seeing the fruits of his labors.  He knew that he did not cause their conversion but he knew that they were in the fold of God and that was all that really did matter to him.  Yesterday i felt the same way about it all.  I got to go back and see so many people that i was blessed to teach.  The ones in Pakkret are almost all going to be baptized soon.  They all mean so much to me and i took a lot of self control to not give them all a hug.  It was so good to see them and they are all doing really good.  I was very happy to see Sister Tuk.  She really was treating me like her kid yesterday and what was really funny is that President Senior asked why i knew so many people and i told him that it has been almost a year that i have been in this same zone.  He then asked if that was a hint or something because it is getting so close to moves hahaha.  

The spirit was so strong in the meeting and after the meeting.  I love it here and i really did feel the love of God and i really did find joy in my labors.  It just felt really good because you know me and how i sometimes get down on myself but yesterday i just felt pure joy to know that all of those people have done sacred covenants and will be able to enter the kingdom of God.  I love this work so much and i feel like my mission has passed by so fast.

Tell Jamie that i definatly approve.  He looks like a really good guy and he looks like he will be a great husband.  Tell her that i wish that i could hav been there to see it all but tell her if she would have waited i would have been there hahaha just kidding but tell her that she and him look great together and that i am very happy for them and give them my best wishes.  

I love you so much Mom and Dad.  Thank you so much for taking care of me eve when i am all th way aross the world.  I really do feel bad about my wallet but it is not the money that i lost that bothers me but my temple reccomend.  I have felt really weird without it.  I will interview this week and that will feel so good.  The cool thing is that it will all be in thai.  The temple workers will be very confused haha.  I love you so much and make sure you both take care of yourselves.  Have a good week and I will talk to you next week.

Elder Revelli