Dear Mom and Dad,

So you're right. The weather is starting to get bitterly cold. It
is supposed to be like 45 below Celcius this Friday or so that is what
all the Mongolians are saying. It is really cold and I will survive
thank goodness. So to answer your questions I start teaching tomorrow
again for 15 days and then get another break. I think my schedule
will still be hard but I just have to survive. I don't teach on
Saturdays which nice. To answer your question about the Mongolian
missionaries they are really just normal missionaries. So this week
was really good because I realized that the language of the Spirit
speaks to all men. It was really cool because through my terrible
Mongolian we had a new member get a second wind and will hopefully
turn his life around. I realized that even though I can't speak
Mongolian very well the Lord can communicate for me. It is really
good. So I'm glad to hear about everything at home. It is really
cool to hear how much our family is bonding through these times. I
hope everything goes well at the doctors. Today I taught my companion
a lot about Joseph Smith which was cool because it helped my language
skills. I honestly have heard that our language mission is one of the
hardest or if it isn't it is the second hardest and that is why I feel
like I am never doing any progress. I hope you all are doing well and
just keep being wonderful parents and family. I'm glad you found
Elder Neubergers blog. He is a wonderful elder and his smiling face
always cheers me up. Good luck and I love you all.

Love Elder Williams

Dear Sisters. Thank you for the picture. It is really cute. I love
the fact that all of you are still you. Well I have to admit that
time really flies here in the mission field. It still feels like not
long ago that I went into the MTC. It is really amazing to see how
much I've grown over just six months. Obviously I still have a long
way to go but time really does fly if you are working hard. It is
good that you all are reading Mistborn. It is really getting cold
here. It is really getting cold here. It is really getting cold here.
Obviously it is getting really cold here. It is cool to hear that
you are really having fun. Just remember that it is all about
attitude. That is really weird to think the I am almost a fourth of
the way done with my mission and that Jordan is coming home in TWO
MONTHS!!!! Well that just shows that if you go on a mission you have
make all you can out of it. I love you and just keep being sunny.
Remember that while you are all eating chocolate cookies I am eating
really weird dairy products.

Mom and Dad I'm sooo sooo sorry but the internet died here right when I
was sending my email so I can only write very little because it
deleted my whole other email. I just want you all to know that I love
you and I'm so proud of you and that the Lord will stand by you
always. Thank you for your love and prayers. My blog members :)
might be a little disappointed but I love you all. Good luck and know
that your son is always drinking really hot water here.

To Sisters: It is so great to hear from all of you. It really makes my day. So
> Caelen you have met someone that was in Ping Pong with me. Too bad I
> absolutely can't really remember him but don't tell him that. Well
> Rebecca it sounds like you are doing wonderful. If you do happen to
> go on a mission you will have a wonderful experience. Also keep up
> with the Russian. It really is a really similar alphabet and I can
> read Russian I just have no idea what it means. Also don't get fat
> from eating all that lunch. So Rachel the big bad baby sitter. 20
> dollars could get you a lot here. I'm so proud that you are doing
> well in school. That is interesting to hear about the sister that
> will come here. She might have already entered the MTC but if not I
> will definitely see her in May. I'm just hoping my sponsor will take
> another American missionary to take a little off my schedule. Well
> this week was good. I don't know if I told you but they serve all
> water hot here. and when I say hot I mean hot. It now seems weird to
> be served cold water. Well it has been a good week with lots of good
> lessons learned and lessons taught. My language is still tough but I
> do feel it coming along. I still am trying to get over my shyness.
> SO my message to all of you little girls this week is to not be shy
> because people actually want to know about you. Just be open and
> always love life. I love you all and I wish you all the best of luck
> in all of the things you are doing. I love you
> Elder Williams

Dear Mom and Dad,
It is wonderful to read your email every week. By the way Grandma, I don't have the pens with me right now but the bigger size is the best. Thank you for wanting to send them to me. The problem is that my scriptures are all marked up and my pens are running out. So this week has been pretty good. We had one investigator come to sacrament meeting who is a relative of Gotov. He has really not had any desire to come to sacrament meeting before so this was pretty cool. He is 18 years old and me and him actually talked quite a bit. He even called me his friend which was cool because I still don't understand him very well. This week I learned that if I open my mouth that I can say things in Mongolian and can converse. Sure it is rough and the fact is that the Mongolians have listen really hard but I am getting better. Right now I am really trying to polish up all my gospel teaching language skills. It has been hard but eventually I want to do really well. So this week is cold but that is nothing new. The days are getting longer though. The sun is now setting at 4:30 instead of 4. Just kidding, though I actually think I'm right. Mom, I hope your chemotherapy goes well. I really am praying for you a lot and I hope you realize that. I hope you will stop having to drain your lungs. Dad, so BYU's new basketball team is pretty good or so it sounds like. So I got my transfer call a couple days ago and guess what!!! I'm staying in my same area. And my new companion is......the same. At first I was a little confused but with the new investigator thing I realized we both still need to be here. Also I sat next to another new investgator in sacrament meeting and it was cool because I was telling me about how peaceful the church was. I was going to tell him he was feeling the Holy Ghost but sacrament started right when I was about to. Oh well, we had to transfer him to other missionaries because he lives in a different area. It was still cool because I tried to communicate with him also. So I'm grateful for all of your prayers. I'm finally feeling like this is all normal now. It has taken a while but I am beginning to feel at home. It has been a great experience thus far and I really can't wait to get another member into the waters of baptism. One cool thing I learned about Gotov we just learned was that he used to be one of the most famous drunks in all the our city district. He has changed so much and he had no problem quitting alcohol. This is why his family is coming to church because they don't understand how he has changed so much. I love you so much and I know that even though we are members that this Gospel can still change us too. I'm so grateful for be being able to say the peace this gospel gave our family. I love you all and I pray for you and good luck with everything you are doing.

Dear Mom and Dad,

It was wonderful to be able to talk with all of you over the phone. It was really nice to hear from all of you and all the wonderful bonding going on. I'm sorry but I won't be able to send pictures this week because I still have a few more things to do and it takes a while to upload pictures. So this week I made a pizza for my investigators and by some miracle it turned out ok. The bottom was a little burnt but the Mongolians really didn't know the difference because they are constantly chewing on hard objects. So I have one more week left of not having to teach English but the fact is that I have to make up a final this week. It will be hard and I admit it is kind of stressing me out but the wonderful older couples said they would be more than willing to help me. So that should turn out alright. It has been quite the experience being an English teacher and a full time missionary. One problem right now is since I am not allowed to do ITL's we sometimes feel like we are running short of investigators. The good thing, is that our new member Gotov is bringing his family and he even called us and told us that he was feeling the Spirit when he was reading the Book of Mormon. He is also trying to bring some of his relative's to church. Well, Mongolia is getting colder and it was a little weird to think about the fact that I was having New Year's a long time before all of you but now we are both officially in the year 2012. I am grateful for the Book of Mormon too. It wasn't until my mission that I realized the absolute power and peace in the Book of Mormon. I also realized how thrilling all of 2nd Nephi is. My scriptures to be honest look a lot like Grandpa Williams. By the way Grandma Williams is you could send me some more of those wonderful marking pens in the next package (which by the way is up to you not me) I would be very grateful. I never realized the peace that is associated in reading the Book of Mormon. I find all of my answers through the scriptures. Sometimes I feel like I could read a whole day and be just perfectly happy. It has been quite an experience to realize all of this but I wish I had known it better in high school. The comfort I have received from the Book of Mormon through the Spirit has been absolutely breathtaking and I just wish that I could have had this stronger pillar to lean on back in high school. I read but I never feasted. Without the Book of Mormon this mission would not exist. It is truly another witness of Jesus Christ. I love you all and I'm so glad of the challenge given by the Church leaders to have everyone read the book of Mormon by Easter. I love you, I pray for you and I wish you all a good 2012.

Also I received letters from President Burgess and the Bishopric. Thank you so much and thank you for being the wonderful examples you are. It was your help which enabled me to have a wonderful time in Young Men's. Know that your work and talents go not unappreciated. THank you so much