October 9th

:) well as of Christmas day this year mission is 1/4 over. Weird. Christmas seem so far away... yet so close. I'm excited.. not because I want to leave this wondrous work but because I'm very excited to see my family again and spend the time I never really got the chance to due to my stupidity. Well this week was hard. Not a lot of success. We do however have a baptism on the 29th. He is soo cool. :) I would give you names, but new rule in field is no names can be shared:/ okay so facts My current Area: Tian mu (said tea N moo) It is about an hour out of downtown. it's big but not too "Big" city like. My companion: Elder Jed Harr He is from St. George Utah. He is 6.8 feet. He played basketball at SVU. His family home schooled:) sooo cool. He has a lot of similar views. which is nice. My mission is a very big bike mission. WE BIKE ALWAYS!!!!!!!! Food is... well I'd rather just wait to get home and share journal entries and pictures as so not to re-live all the painful experiences. ;) But a lot of fried... things? I don't know what to call nothing made to something. ;) So this last week our air conditioning unit broke. We spent all our free time switching out units fixing units and getting good old Taiwan soot all over ourselves. We decided we practically perfect in every way.. Even basketball ;) This last weekend we watched conference. Satan did not like that. He did everything to stop it. First couldn't get it at our church in English. so for hours we ran around getting lap tops, speakers, and this and that to watch conference. Then after it all started a drunk guy came running in saying. "i'm here teach me the gospel" wow Satan really hates missionaries. anyway the day continued like that. interruptions and power probs and all the above. but we got to watch it all :) the next day satan attacked everyone personally. I saw in every missionary in our district this sad and angry look. They all had several instances of anger. But I'm glad a few realized who was attacking them and turned their attitude around:) well thats about it. :) Remember to smile :) LOVE Elder Chrisrtopher M. Reynolds