May 19 2013

What is up beautiful people!? Remember when I saw all of your beautiful faces last week?!?! That was the greatest. I'm more awkward, huh? Yeah. Well... It is inevitable. Ah, seriously so good to see you all. It is crazy on your mission how much your love for your family grows. I had no idea I loved you all that much. Haha. Just kidding. I did. You just realize it more on the mission. I fully realize I have the coolest family in the world.

 

This past week was awesome! We are just helping our 7 baptismal date ivestigators learn the GOSPEL! It is great. 2 of our investigators stopped meeting with us. Aka stopped answering our calls. Which I'm super bummed about. They were the bees knees. But we set two new dates this past week! YEAH! One is Fang Ting and the other is Chen Chang Fu. Both super cool. Chen Chang Fu told us he still wants to drink coffee and tea and continue having pre-marital seh. But, he'll get through it. I know he will.

 

I love this work more and more everyday. Last night we were visiting a Huang Family and I was telling them this time is the most tired time of my life but it also is the happiest. That is straight up truth. I love this Gospel with my whole heart.

 

I love you all. Have a beautiful week. I'll pray for you. :)

 

PEACE!

 

Love, Elder Relyea

May 5th 2013

This week was the bees knees! It was actually super nuts. But so much fun. This thursday during WPS(4 hour planning session), the Elder who takes care of all the apartment stuff calls us and says, "pack all of your things. You are moving today." Haha. We packed not only our stuff but everything in our apartment in 3 hours. It was crazy. But now we live with 2 other Elders. They are our Zone leaders. They are both awesome. We have a new friend in our apartment. He is a huge rat that lives in our ceiling. His claws scrap the concrete as he runs back and forth all day and night. He is quick little duffer. I'll give him a name this week.

We have been seeing so many miracles lately. So many part-member families that want their families to be together forever so we teach the non-members! Yesterday we started teaching a less-actives son and this week we also started teaching a less-actives husband. NICE! They are both great.

Last night we had the new member/investigator fireside. It was great. Two of our investigators came. One is Brother Yan and the other is Reasen. A huge miracle happened with Reasen this week. He works at a hotel and Sundae is his busiest day. This week we met with him and taught him the Sabbath. We invited him to talk to his boss to see if he could at least get one hour off of work to come to Church. He talked to his boss and........ Starting in June he will start having Sundae's off!!! I'm not sure if it is every Sundae but he will be baptized in June! YEAH! He is so prepared. He loves the Book of Mormon. He is the man.

The Church is true. I'm so glad everyday I get to tell the people of Taiwan we have a loving Father in Heaven who wants to help them succeed. I feel of His love as I help these people. Missionary work is the greatest. We have 5 investigators with baptismal dates now. So we will be super busy this week and i'm STOKED! I love you all with my whole heart.

I will see your beautiful faces next week on skypee!!!! YEAHHHHHH!!! Probably around this time. Love you ALL!

Love, Elder Relyea

April 28th

Hello beautiful people!

This morning, 5:18, riding to the Internet Cafe I could see the mountains! It was refreshing. I for real need to go hiking. I feel like I've been in Taibei for my whole life. But, I still love it. This past week so many awesome things happened.

On Monday we went to the Zoo! It was pretty great. I still feel way bad for all the animals... But it was pretty fun. Tuesday night we saw a sweet miracle! I turned off a main road to go find a place to pray to start finding. Before we said the prayer there was this Tongxue(student) walking right by us. I started talking to him. Turns out he's been to a Christian Church before! Nice. We taught him an awesome lesson on prayer and the Book of Mormon. We gave him a Book of Mormon and he was stoked! We set up for Sundae(yesterday). Yesterday I called him before our set up time and he told me he was going to bring his mom and little brother to the Chapel to meet with us. I was STOKED! We go to the Chapel and... he never came. I was bummed. O still have faith in him! But we got to meet with a guy named Daniel("Daniel my brother, you are older than me. Do you still feel the pain"). This Daniel is always chillin' at the Chapel because he doesn't really have any friends or any place to be. We're homiez. Yesterday we taught him all about the Restoration. It was a good time.

On Wednesday morning we did a puppet show for an elementary school about Alcohol prevention. I was the Drunk. haha. It was fun. That day we met a crazy man on the street. He was from Portugal and the first thing he said to us was, "let's talk." Then he started telling us how much he hates America and how he goes to Thailand for the prosties. Yeah, that was an experience. I think that is the first time my companion has ever heard anything like that in his life.

Thursday was my year mark!!! Soooooooooooo weird. Time is not real. This literally has been the fastest year of my life. And I know this next one will go even quicker. It was a great year anniversary. Had brownies and vegetarian food for lunch. Then for dinner got chinke'd(free dinner. A Sister Wang bought our dinner)! Then Sister Day gave us more brownies. It was awesome.

I straight up feel like an old missionary. All new missionaries in our zone are super young. Weird thing is, I'm not even that old yet. I'm still a youngling too!

Alright, I've gotta go buy my zaocan(B-fast). I love you all with my whole heart. I will see your beautiful faces soon on the Skypee(how asians say skype).

Love, Elder Relyea