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

Long lost email

I have decided to post the latest email from Bryce and I will try to post each week (there are no promises).

Hey Mom and Dad,

This summer sounds like you  both have a lot to do for the house.  If you want to you can leave a little bit for me when i get home hahaha.  It feels weird that they are all going on their missions because it feels like it was yesterday that i was sitting in Priests with them.  I know i didnt get a long with a lot of them then but i know we have all changed so i wonder how it would be now.  

Dad i will pray for you so you can have a little extra strength to get all of that stuff done.  Kimball is still in town and so you can use him for some help and them brack gets back and then you can have both of them for about a month hahahaha.  Well not much has been happening here.  This last week Elder Bennett and i both got a little sick but it was nothing serious just a stomach ache but everything is good and ok now.  

This last sunday we did have a companion exchange and it was the first time that i have just been able to speack straight thai for a long time.  It felt good to know that if i spoke english he would not understand but that i would have to speak thai for the entire time.  It actually felt really good and i really did love it.  I got to go in their area and aon the way back to Elder Bennetts and mine area we sat in the van for a while right noext to the temle with all of the monkeys and so we watched them for about 30 min before the van left the station.  It was way fun to watch them and they are just so funny.  Elder Bennett told me that one time one of them stole a persons note book and climbed to the top of one of the buildings and started to rip out pages and throw them everywhere.  They tried to get it down with food but it was having way to much fun and so it just kept going.  

This sunday was really cool.  President and Sister Senior came here for church.  President had some temple recommend interviews to do and he isnt 100% confident with his thai so he asked me to translate just in case that he needed it.  He is really good. He has only been here for 3 weeks and he speaks and understands so well.  He also is the nicest person.  He encouraged Elder Bennett and I to start committing more peole to baptism and to start looking for a place for a church because when we are able to start getting 80 people to come for 4 weeks in a row they will be a church here.  That would help so much!!!!!!!!!!  right now no one can see our church and so that makes it hard to teach english because no one can actually find it but it is a nice building and very quiet.  The branch here is so awesome.  I lvoe it so much.  

Elder Bennett and i thought it was odd that Cassies car was in the front of his house hahaha.  We were just surprised more than anything hahaha.  

Mom and Dad I love you so much and thank you for being the example for me.  Also just telling me before i would go out the door.  "remember who you are and what you stand for"  That is the reason why i stood in the right place at the right time.  Thank you so much  I love you and here are soe col pictures of our p day today. 

Elder Revelli

3/24/12

 

Hey Mom!

Well it sounds like a kind of crazy week.  Yes i did get Grandmas and Grandpas card.  Make sure that you tell them that i said thank you and that i will be writing them soon.  Well this week has been really fun.  We had a couple of runs to the air port and back because we got a senior couple in.  The Elder was actually a companion with President Smith while they were here together.  It was kind of fun hearing them talking about the mission and about old comps and old missionaries and their lives.  It was really odd and interesting and me and elder gudmundsen talked and we both said that i would come back and be a senior couple and he would be the mission president and we would have that same conversation hahaha!

Well we are having another baptism at the church this week from another set of Elders whom i love!  they are a really good companionship.  Yes Elder Mondragon has a little sister and they live in Salt lake somewhere bnut i cannot remember where.  Today for my birthday there are some members who are taking us out to lunch and then after that we might go bowling but we dont know for sure yet.   Btw i might be getting a suit cut if that it ok?  There is a member who will do it for 3000 baht and that is fabric and he doesnt charge for labor.  I will tell you before i go fabric shopping because i have to go to china town and look first but this brother is actually a female clothes designer.  He owns a shop in china town and he said that he really likes cutting dresses for females more that cutting suits but he now does both haha so when you all come here we can stay here for two weeks and he will have dresses done for the girls and suits for the boys hahaha.  But ya i will tell you how much it costs first and if it is over i will just pass.

Not much has happened this week.  We did have one investigator and her daughter.  The daughte has changed so much for the better but her mother hasnt seen that at all.  The daughter has gotten an answer and she gave a really powerful testimony. I could see that they did not have the best relationship in the world and it made me more grateful for the relationship that i had with you and Dad.  The opprotunity to actually grow up in the gospel with you two.  I know that this is a gospel of families.  I dont plan on going up there alone because i know that you all can be right by my side and i will be by your side.  i am really excited for that day!  I love you so much Momma and sorry if i did answer all of the questions in case that i missed something hahaha but i will talk to you next week.

Elder Bryce