Dear Mom and Dad,

So Mom........ Happy Birthday to you!!!!! Happy Birthday to
you!!!!! Happy Birthday dear Mommy!!!!!!! Happy Birthday to
You!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. So if I heard correctly you are now 51?!!!
Wow!!!!! SO anyway I really hope you had a wonderful birthday. I
love you and appreciate you soooo much. So first about my week. SO I
started out the week with a new companion. His name is Elder
Gantogtoh and he is a wonderful young man and he will be a wonderful
full time missionary. But another Elder in my district named Elder
Neuberger joined us as a threesome for several weeks because his short
term missionary had a health problem and he had to go home. So for
the last week we have been working in two areas teaching two englishs
and going to choir practice for out short term missionary. This week
has been hectic. and on top of that I am moving away from unur this
Friday. i am moving to the Hailaast branch and will be the new
district leader there. My new companion will be Elder Robbins from
Las Angeles. Also it is official that there will be more americans
sent to Mongolia if they can get visas. Well also this week I slipped
and fell :( But I came in second place out of the competition. It
was funny. So that day we went up to an area in my area called zuun
salaa. Well we went up there and our feet were so cold that it
literally almost hurt to walk. but after a few minutes of fast
walking they kind of warmed up. So as our feet were freezing my
companion Elder Neuberger started jumping up and around to warm up his
feet. But as he did so he slipped on the solid ice street and fell
and that was when I came in second place. Unfortunately that same
night I slipped and fell while literally just standing. AS I said
before the roads are literally just solid ice. When I was back in
Chingeltei we actually saw a man ski down a whole mountain. .....but
he only had shoes on. So I finally have fallen. That is so cool to
know that you are all still doing the wss, and I hope that you are all
spreading the christmas joy. That is neat to know that you are with
talking with Carmen mom. It will really help her when she finally is
brought the chance to listen to the gospel. Well I actually managed
to read Cameron's letter about the puppy before this I actually read
Cameron's letter and it is good to know that we are in in reality the
same people. :)) So I can't believe that he is almost done. That is
crazy fast. Well my release date is going to be the last week of July
probably the 31st. I figure it is okay to say it now because all of
the other elders are. So anyways it will be just about 2 years. So I
am glad that BYU beat Utah. I can go now and rub that in to the faces
of a few elders. Just kidding I would never do that. :) Don't worry
about the shirts. It will be fine if they are thinner. To be honest
the thicker materialed shirts are harder to clean. Well the weather
is sooo cold here that when you open a door to a warm house the entire
thing acts like you do when you breath. You just see all this mist
and steam from the warm air touching the cold air. It is pretty cool.
Also you know it is cold when you step into a nice inside warm gym
and realize that you can still see your breath. So I played some
basketball and actually did pretty good. Well everything else is just
normal this week. Except we really haven't taught that many lessons
this week due to just the hectic schedule. Well I don't know if you
sent me a package as of yet or not but it sounds like I got one just
now. That is what one of the elders just told me. Well thanks for
everything and I love you all so much. By the way, Mom could you send
me the recipe to your homemade hot chocolate. I found some cocoa and
am really wanting to use it. Well I love you both and good luck.
Love Elder Williams

 

 So Dear Fantastic Sisters,
This week has been really interesting and if you want to learn
about it read the other email. So to be honest it is cold. :) But I
got a good coat and am doing fantatstic. (But I do look really fat
with my coat but the problem is that first it is cool to look fat in
Mongolia and second my now skinny neck look really funny wearing the
coat sometimes) But other than that it is a great coat. (I feel like
a sumo in the coat and without it I feel like Bigbird) Well also I
now have two companions which you can learn about it my other email.
Well I am just doing work over here in the land of the blue sky.
Soooooo, Rebecca, the book that I referred to is actually available
at the LasHermanasElephants publishing website. (Good luck on finding
it) that is www.lashermanaselephants.

doesn'texistandwillneverexistever.com.
Great Website!!!! So by the way since you didn't argue to that fact
that you didn't have a boyfriend I will assume that you do and I think
that you should tell me his name. Well I could really use some hot
chocolate right now. You should send me some already made hot
chocolate through the mail. it would be fantastic. So anyways good
luck up there at Byu and good luck with all of your tests. Just know
that I will be giving a test to students in a few days. I hope they
all fail!! (and no... I didn't forget sarcasm.) Well, Rachel, I
can't wait to see you over skype. It will be so fun and I really want
to see how much you have grown. Good job with pudge. You are doing a
good job over there. Well speaking of dogs I have many stories with
dogs and one of the best ones is I walked out of a ger and the dog was
sitting right outside the ger on the doorstep. Well if you don't know
about things in Mongolia dogs here are......well not nice. So as this
really big dog was about to bite me I made a choice. So remember how
I would use to play with shylo and put my foot in his mouth and then
he would wrestle? Well yeah I did just that. I put my foot in this
big dog's mouth. And he really wanted to bite me. But thanks to my
practice with shylo I saved myself from a rabies shot. So a dog story
for you. Also keep up the baby sitting. So I am so ready for the
awkwardness of single's ward. Awkwardness here I come!!!!! WEll
Rachel thanks for praying for me and keep up the good work. By the
way minii mend Bethany-d hurgeerei. (Say hello to her for me. Well
Caelen, how much have you really grown? I am scared that people are
mistaking you for someone in a singles ward. You are not allowed to
look old so I have a solution. .......(Drum roll please)........stop.
:) Well I can't wait to see how much you have grown over skype too.
So I hope that you don't have a boring week this next week. And I
can't wait to see the tie. Also send me a picture of all the really
cool decorations at the house. So all of you little girls need to
promise me something. Stop growing up!!!!! :) Well anyways good
luck this next week and I love all of you. Love Elder Williams

 

Dear Kristalyn,
    So you can read about my week in my other email.  So this week has
been pretty good and we have had a lot of fun.  So anyway it sounds
like you are having a blast.  I wish you all the best of luck on your
finals, but don't burn yourself out studying.  I like the phrase don't
burn your candle on both ends.  Or something like that.  SO good luck
and here is another great phrase for ya'  don't count your chickens
before they hatch.  Ever since I have been teaching english I realized
just how amazing the english language is.  I also have learned a lot
of phrases.  So it finally snowed.  That is weird to think about
considering the fact that it snowed here forever ago.  It is also
really cold.  So I finally slipped and fell this week but I took
second place among the elders.  I actually slipped just kind of
standing and when I really think about it I have no idea how I fell.
So that was really funny.  Did you know that here there is literally
roads of solid ice?  They are really hard to walk on at night without
a flashlight.  :)  So that is cool about your whole car thing.  I bet
you will sell it pretty quick.  If you want to sell it really fast
just say that it is actually a transformer and then people will buy it
really quickly. :)   So I know but yeah my jokes are lame today.  So I
read a really cool article about how a family during christmas time
all memorized the living christ.  She said that literally that those
several months that they spent memorizing it was some of the best
months of her life because they literally rejoiced in Christ all the
time.  I have decided I really want to do the same thing.  So just a
cool idea.  So to answer your questions, every once and a while I miss
home but recently it hasn't been so bad.  It was actually the worst of
thanksgiving but right now it is pretty good.  So I always remember
you guys but to be honest since all of you have changed so much i
really don't know any of the cute little habits you have anymore. I
really hope that we can all together be up and byu for a while.  But
if that doesn't work out than we can still do a lot of other things.
So the day I was getting released changed.  So it will be the end of
July.  Probably July 31st.  SO it will be about two years.  Orginally
we were going to go the 14th of July but with the whole lowering of
the missionary ages it messed some things up.  So that will be whats
up.  So always remember the saviour.  Some people think that in
Mongolia it is easier to focus on the real meaning of christmas
because there is no commercial christmas but it is exactly the
opposite.  It is all commercial christmas.  Santa and the christmas
tree and all of the christmas music that doesn't include the story of
actual christmas.  It makes me realize just how special it is to focus
on christ during christmas.  So you are doing a wonderful job
remembering what christmas is really about. So to be honest I really
want some pudding for Christmas.  So if you could send some pudding I
would love you more than ever.  :)  JK but you can tell mom though.
Well I am doing fine and I wish you the best luck out there.  30 weeks
left for me.  That is about how much left.  Time flies and I am so sad
that I am leaving that soon.  I just feel like I haven't been as
productive as I wanted to be but every missionary feels that way.  So
I love you and can't wait to see you over skype.  PS give me your
skype address.  Well I love you and good luck.  Love Elder Williams

 Dear Mom and Dad,
So this week was really good. So actually this sunday we had a
new investigator show up that we invited to come to church several
days ago. I didn't actually think she would ever come but all of a
sudden she is meeting with us. I hope that she felt the spirit and
that she will continue to want to meet with us. also this week was
pretty good because one of our new members 8 year old daughters got
baptized. It was wonderful to be able to see her get baptized. So
also today my short term missionary is going to be traded for another
short term missionary so that should be interesting. Well it was
really cold this week. Supposedly -22 farenheit. The good news is
that first, I am not feeling too cold and second, I have not fallen
yet on all of the solid ice. Me and another elder are having a
competition to see who can last the longest. Well that is really all
that happened this week. Well pretty soon we will be talking over
skype. I can't wait and am just glad to get the chance to be able to
talk to all of you again. So that reminds me that you should send me
your or kristalyn's skype address. that might make things easier.
so it sounds like all of you are doing good. I am really interested
in that whole china thing. that is sooooo cool. That might actually
really have an effect on all of the people here in Mongolia.
Mongolians speak english well russian well and chinese pretty well.
So who knows. So it sounds like everything over there is still warm.
Sorry I won't be able to write a lot but just know that i am having a
wonderful day and week. I love you and wish you all the best of luck.
Love Elder Williams

Dear Little Sisters,
Too save on time today I will just talk to you two and you can read
about my week in the other bigger email. So you two sound like you
are having fun. I remember going down and watching Bonanza late at
night and sometimes we hid it from Dad. :) That really seems like
yesterday for me. To be honest it is really kind of weird because it
is like that time back at home was put on pause for me. In my mind it
is really weird to think that things are all changing back at home.
But I can't wait to talk to you over skype in a few weeks. It should
be a blast. So Caelen, I'm glad that you and pizza and ice-cream and
a movie go well together. Just remember to eat some extra pizza for
me!!!! Hey, Caelen, don't you worry about school. School is just
something in life we all have to do and to be honest if you want to
enjoy school you will and if you don't want to you won't. I remember
that as I moved up the grades in highschool that I really began to
enjoy it. You will too eventually. So just relax and do your best
and most of all pray. That way Heavenly Father can consecrate your
performance unto you. (I don't think I really got the wording on that
right so forgive me) :) Rachel, you sound like you are doing good.
I hope that movie was really good. Also you are right about the whole
mormon thing. We need to say our church's name but also for example
if someone does call us a mormon we need to straight up accept it and
say "yes sirree I'm a mormon" (that was a little cheesy) So anyway
just keep up the good work and always remember that your heavenly
father loves you. You two have a wonderful week. Love Elder

Dear Kristalyn,
     So it sounds like your week was awesome.  So don't worry you can
learn about my week in my big email.  Also I was planning on sending
some really cool pictures today tegsen chin my companion is leaving
and I am getting another short term missionary for two weeks and I
became busy today.  So anyway I promise I think about you and your
pictures everyday.  Just be thankful that I still have my camera.
Elder Stranski my mtc companion has lost his camera twice.  So anyway
this week has been pretty good for me.  Did I ever tell you that when
I learned that information about mom's cancer in the MTC I cried in
the bathroom too?  It was a very interesting time for me and I still
see how much God was teaching me.  I kind of miss the MTC every once
and a while.  It was a truly wonderful spot.  The spirit is there sooo
strong.  Dad told me before my mission the the Holy Ghost truly walks
those halls.  and I can testify to what he said.  The spirit truly
does walk those sacred halls in the MTC.  Anyways just a little bit of
a flash back for me.  So I hope everything turns out okay for you and
Rhett.  I recently read a wonderful article in one of the older
ensigns about picking someone to marry.  It was really good and next
time I will give you the reference to it but don't worry too much
about all of this.  Just keep up the good work up there and BYU and I
don't know if we will ever be up there together but if we are I can't
wait.  Well I love you and just to let you know in Mongolia the
Christmas here is called new years and to be honest nothing happens on
Dec. 25.  Kind of depressing right?  They also have no idea of any of
the meanings of half the christmas stuff they put up.  It is all for
new years.  So I am so grateful for the chance to have a wonderful
sister like you and I wish you the best of luck.  Love Elder Williams

Dear Mom and Dad,
    Anyway today we played basketball after the dentist so I'm writing a little later but anyway today turned out okay.  So as I said before during thanksgiving we went to one of our members homes to have a little food.  So we went there and she ended up giving us like a huge bowl of horse meat and rice and mashed potatoes.  I finished the whole thing with a lot of struggle.  It was really hard also because she bought each of us a huge thing of juice which we both finished and we also drank milk with a whole bunch of pastries.  When we left there we could only barely walk and my stomach literally physically hurt.  So we literally babystepped down the mountain to the bus stop and during the bus ride I felt so full.  So then we went to our next appointment which was actually to make our thanksgiving chicken with an older sister but we told her we had eaten so much that we couldn't eat again and so we set that appointment for another time.  Well then I sat at the mission home for a while and my companion finished his missionary application (or at least some of it) Well by then it was night and our next appointment was to meet with a member who to be honest is a really cool guy.  He is literally seven feet tall and speaks fluent English and studied in America for a while.  So he is also a very well to do business man.  So he picked us up in his car and we drove across the city to a really really really nice part of town (I'm talking about millionaires here) and we went to a really quiet expensive restaurant.  And for the first time since my mission I had lasagna.  It was sooooooo good.  I didn't realize just how much I missed that kind of food.  Anyway it was really nice and it was really nice to be able to have a wonderful conversation with him.  He actually knows more about American politics than I do at the moment.  Anyway my thanksgiving turned out very nice.  So anyway the rest of the week was also good.  We are meeting with an investigator tonight and hopefully that all turns out good.  Well it sounds like your week was pretty good.  I am so jealous of the weather over there.  Here I am trying to brush the ice of my eyelashes and you are all playing badminton.  So it is really cold over here.  Pretty quick I will have to switch to my huge winter boots.  So today was really fun playing basketball.  So having lost weight it has increased my jumping ability and I feel that if I worked on it I could possibly dunk the ball.  Right now it is actually quite easy to jump and grab the rim.  So who knows?  Anything could happen.  Well I did win today in basketball against a whole bunch of guys that just kind of walked in and played with us.  That was really fun because they really don't know how to guard a really big guy.  the style of basketball over here is completely different and the first couple of months it was really hard to get used to but in the end it actually works out to my advantage.  The funny thing is that when we play a half court game the moment someone misses anyone can rebound it and score so if you are really tall that really works to your advantage.  So anyway that was fun today.  So to answer a few questions.  So I've have spoken in church a few times which to be honest is kind of hard because they as you know literally ask you during the program to speak.  But it is okay.  Me and my companion are doing fine and we are just trying to get our investigators to church.  So another elder is teaching my English class on P-days which is bad for him but good for me.  But he only has to teach 3 hours a week.  I still have 9.  I can't believe Cameron is almost home.  Time absolutely flies.  I get a little sad when I think about that.  But whatever.  6 weeks.  I remember a year or two ago thinking about how long that seems.  But it is truly nothing in time.  Well I love you all and I wish you all the best of luck this next week.  I love you and have a good day or night.  Love Elder Williams


Dear Little Girls,
     So it was so wonderful to hear from all of you.  This week was pretty good and to be honest it is starting to get pretty cold.  The ice chunks on my eye lashes are proof of that.  So anyways it is cold.  But my new coat is really warm and really thick and I look like a marshmallow.  But the style here is quite different and so looking like a marshmallow is actually acceptable here.  SO other than that we had two investigators come to church which was really nice.  We are meeting with one of them tonight.  Also we found an in-active member this past week and we managed to get her to go to church.  And she enjoyed it.  So that was really cool.  So it sounds like your lives are doing really well.  Rachel, it sounds like the movie was really good.  I have always wondered how that would turn out.  Rachel, you have grown up a lot and I can tell from the emails I get from you.  Your writing style has changed and you are sounding more different every week.  But this is a good thing.  So you are so cool.  Also good job on the Christmas lights.  Also just keep living the good life and sleeping a lot.  Sleeping is wonderful and something I feel like I haven't enjoyed in a long time.  But it is also good to get up at 6:30.  Kind of.  :)  So keep up the great work.  Caelen you have grown up a lot too.  I admit I am excited to see all the growth you have been through.  It will be strange but I really also want to see all the changes that have gone on.  SO good job.  Well I admit I busted up laughing thinking about Rebecca panicking hanging on to a gutter.  Wish you had got pictures of that.  Good job on the Christmas lights.  Also don't worry.  My mouth isn't frozen.  Well I love you both and I'll leave with you one cool scripture.  D&C 64:33-34  "Wherefore, be not weary in well-doing, for ye are laying the foundation of a great work.  And out of small things proceedeth that which is great. Behold, the Lord requireth the heart and a willing mind; and the willing and obedient shall eat the good of the land of Zion in these last days"  The reason I like this scripture is that it tells us that we should never grow tired of doing good things.  We are making this church stronger by doing service and helping others and we need to never get discouraged.  Because even if we do just little things we are making something big.  Many little things add to very big things.  All the Lord wants is for us to want to serve him and try to serve him.  ANd then if we do this we will truly eat the good of the land of zion in these last days or in other words we will be blessed with an abundance of blessings from god and he will help us in any situation.  So girls never give up on doing good even when others don't appreciate it.  So this next week just try opzyour best to help people around you.  I know you can and I know you are doing it now.  I love you so much and I hope you all had a wonderful thanksgiving.  I love you again and good luck.  Love Elder Williams


Dear Kristalyn,  Thanks for writing me.  TO be honest the thing I love the most is just being able to hear from you whether it be short or long.  Well this week was very nice and I actually ate a ton of food over thanksgiving.  Anyways you can read about that in my other email.  So I have been warm especially in my new coat.  It is really big.  So don't you worry about that.  But to be honest the ice on my eyelashes is getting annoying.  So the work is good.  So this week I was just thinking about how close the Lord's second coming really is.  I am really excited for it but I don' t know if it will happen in my lifetime or not.  But I am really excited for it.  So that was kind of a cool thought.  Also so far I haven't slipped and fallen yet but I know that it is only a matter of time.  We actually had a sister missionary slip and break her ankle a few days ago.  But thankfully she is still up and moving.  SO have a wonderful day and just know that I love you soooooo much.  Love Elder Williams