Rough Week... But Still Happy!

ok everyone... well i cant get my camera to work again this week, i might have ruined it from not ejecting the usb last time, the comps shut off before i can even unplugg it, we only get an hour....

well its a new transfer, my new companions name is elder cazier. last week on monday i baptized my first person ever, chen yi jie, its a girl, she wasnt our inv. she was the sisters, but they needed someone to baptize her, and asked me to, so i did. we had one of our investigators, get baptized this past saturday 2 days ago..... a member bapt him. sorry english is bad and im lazy with it.... oh yeah and my new bike got stolen.... it cost me 300 dollars american.... im gonna by a new one. lately i have been riding on a dead missionary bike.... it got stolen when i was a sleep at night, i wont be getting it back, since 2 million people live in this one city..... im not angry at the person that stole my bike, just kinda confused, why some one would still a missionaries bike.... it had the church name on it.... and i painted again to make it uglier but it wasnt enough i guess, so im gonna buy a new one and go alllll out!!!!!!!! im so glad to have a new trnsfer, and a new comp, i really hope me and him can do good things to our area!

love elder brunson

1/2 Marathon and The Statue of Liberty

hey everyone...

so this week after conference i ran over a girl on my bike... but this time it was her fault, and i actually didnt run here over, cuz she bounced right off my shoulder..... i did a hit and run this time... but asked if she was okay as i kept going... we were in a hurry, but i should have stopped.... funny thing the 2 christ lke attributes im working on right now are patience and charity.... i broke both in that situation...

well good news everyone... i woke up and ran that half marathon this morning... we woke up at 430, and me and my companion ran it in 2 hours and 19 mins, no stopping no walking ran from 5 to 720 in the morning... and didnt train for it... i prayed 4 times while running. and it actually turned into a spiritual experience for me.... who would have thought exercise could bring the holy ghost.... i only finished the 13 mile run, because i prayed to God and promised him i wouldnt walk! DILIGENCE is the key! i also got a nice blister from it... check it out :)

oh yeah and i just find out.. i also cant receive emails from friends... so dont bother sending em cuz i wont look.. you can write though. but yeah life is god out here... the language is coming slowly and conference was amazing..... well i dont have much more time to say anything.... but this morning i got a strong testimony in making personal covenants to GOd, and i suggest you all to do your own... what ever it may be!!!! love you all

love elder brunson!!!!

The Zoo and Elder You!

ELDER YOU!

ok i miss my guitar, and when i get home i wanna learn to play church songs on it, learn the piano and vilion, i might buy i violin right before i leave taiwan, but i got decades to think bout it, but anyways here are some more pics, that taiwanes elder is my favorite, his name is elder you,,, hes halorious,, last week i tuaght him how to use pistol whip in context, so now when ever he sees me he says sir, im gonna pistol whip you..... hahhhah i know ii shouldnt be teaching him that, but its to funny to resist... he just seems so innocent when he speaks english haahah this week i tuaght him how to use "its gonna be an adventure" i told him to put after everything you do. so as we where walking to the bathroom i gave him an example... where going to the bathroom, its gonna be an adventure!! hahhahh dont worrry im not going apostate lol,,, welll yeah ill be going on exchanges with him thursday... so something good is bound to happen

love you all elder brunson#2

that red thing above my head is a bird cuaght in flight.... zoom in on it youll see! im trying to remember if anything really funny happened this past week....im sure something did,, well at the zoo i got video of a monkey peeing then skicking his hand in it and licking his hand... that was cool. elder brunson#2

ok so just last night i had the hardest time sleeping.... i got bit 4 times on my face and all over my arms by misquitos,,,, i was up from 2-4 slaping my face tring to kill one single misquito... but couldnt, so im wicked tired to day! and good news, that weird bump i had on my hand since i got here.. i got rid of it... i had my companion yesterday slam a dictionary on it over and over again and it didnt go away... that hurt.... but then i fanily got tired of it and slammed my hand against a medal rail and it got smaller... so then i started beating my hand against the church cement walls, and now its gone... i guess it was calcuim build up... well these pics are from the zoo......as i take pics threw out the mission, youll see my cheecks turn into balloons,, none as rice cheeks so dont flip when my face is fat and my bod is skinny...

elder brunson

FINALLY

okay everyone sorry it has been so long since i have posted the big ol news on me... lets just say im still alive!!! okay story time.... well ill be leaving one inappropite story out.. you can ask my dad to tell you bout it... i only felt appropiate telling him... so one day me and my comp were runniing late to a RC recent converts house... and we are booking it... and if you dont know already traffic is crazy here....well actually there is no traffic becuase everyone does what they want... i mean the people on the streets are crazy... especially the bus drivers!!!! so were booking it and this bus pulls over to pick people up and his mirriors almost take my comps head off, and i see this from behind and start laughing for some reason lol so the bus stopped at the stop and i didnt want to go on the left side of him becuase cars wereing wizzing by so i went on the right side following the path where my comp almost got anaililatted and for some reason i thought i would be totaly fine to follow him becuase the bus was stopped now... but i had a feeling dont go that way... but i ignored it and pedal my hardest... i thought i was okay becuase i didnt see anyone getiing on the bus... but then i remebered at the last second ... "why on earth would the bus be stopping then?????" and SMACK i took out a fat dude stepping of the bus... ( and i thought to myself oh yeah people get off the bus too) im so stupid lol...... i got him right in the inner thigh, knocked him to the ground... good thing i have been doing lots of push ups lattely, cuz i think thats what kept me on my bike... or maybe it was the fact that i hit a 300 pound pool of jello>>> ( calling people fat here is okay) so he fell to the ground and made weared noises... maybe he was cussing me out... but a soon as he saw i was american his attitude changed... he got nicer :) i tried to think of words to say to him... but was to embarressed... i almost just left him there, but then remebered i have this black thing of plastic over my heart, so i stayed and took the stares from all people on the street sidewalk and in the bus!!! si i said ni okay ma? ( are you okay) he said yes, so i shook his hand and took off! and began the ride of shame! i was all alone, my companion had no clue what just happened... i was lost in one of the bussiest cities in the world.... but just kept riding.. then heard a whistle, and say my comp....

well thats that story! last pday i went to the 101 tower and walked around then sat in a massage chair foir half an hour.. it felt so good. we joked around and were like oh no im getting a massage lol.. becuase we have some missionaries in the mission that sneak out and get real massages... the president knows and told everyone not to so we think its funny to say we got massages. i aslo took pictures so thats good! that same day we didnt eat breakfast or dinner, because we went to all you can eat pizza hut! was the bomb!!!! its 250 kuai and we just sat there for 2 hours eating pizzzzaaaaa and chicken aanndddd apple pie pizza and amazing brownies... today im going to the zoo, i hope i get some bomb diggidity pics! well life in the mission is good! i talk to almost everyone i see but have a hard time speaking the languege.... they dont understand me alot off the time...( oh that just felt good... sweat from my arm pit just dripped and slide all the way down my stomach hahhahahh) but yeah the language is tough... i can hold an okay conversation but my vocab only consist of gospel things so its hard to unerstand what they say to me... when i dont understand... i testify... well actually i need to work on that more... i do it in lessons but the street needto testify more.... its hard to contact at stop lights... but i feel good doing it! we should be seeing a coulpe baptisms this transfer! so thats the goo ol news on me... food is good life is good, and im becoming the person i and God want me to be!

i love you all and Congrats to randy on being the first elder brunson to die... so far we just need to kill 2 more,, and then well have more... and congrats to james... on being the frist of his XING (last name) to die... i loove you all and hope you are Keeping the commandments....

love elder brunson #2 ( as of wendsday)

Just Some Pictures

This is a picture of his district outside the Temple

This is his "first time in a car with a midget" haha This is also the same guy you started yelling during the baptism.

And this is a building that they randomly built. He said that he's heard there's nothing in it.

haha Kyle Calls Himself Elder Brunson #3

well we only ended up with one baptism this week... we have two girls... one 23 and one 16 waiting on there parents to let them get baptized here.... everyone is so buddist her... and they aren't all nice people... alot of people dont say hi to me at alll when i say hi... its cuz they know what im all about lol WORK ! well the baptism that we did have was hilarious and mad me mad at the same time lol, our investigater got baptized 3 times lol... and the midget in our ward who wasnt a witness... walked up there anyway and kept screaming in chinese... your doing it wrong your doing it wrong.... the church is alittle different here.... they say good afternoon in sacrament then the whole ward responds.... and other things.... like this past week a member of the bishopric was on his phone at the stand during sacrament meeting.... i just wanna go to pulpit, and announce " if you guys really want to feel the spirit, put away all your dumb phones, and start thinking about why we really are here!!! to remember our Savior!" well today im going to the temple.... thats why im emailing so early :)

Bike's painted!

okkkkkkkkk kkkkk this week :) my new paintd bike and a quick pic of the buildings here... and that one dragon.. thing... he was dancing but i got the camera to late...... so they were taking the costume off..... but anyways this week has stories... but as a missionary week it sucked.... i felt like we didnt do crap... becuase everyone is so busy ...and leaves... its cuz this week was guonian the chinese new year week long celebration.... so yeah last week i said there was a chicken in the pot... but then i went to another members house... and they had the same thing... so this time i grabbed the foot and ate that :) but then i decided i wanted to go big and realized no one was gonna eat the head... so i took it... and ate the skin of of it... then i saw its eyeball and said...y not... so i ate that tooo :) i tated like fingernails... and then i was like well since i ate that that... i might as weel crack the skull and eat the brain.... so yep i did so.... and i ate it all and swallowed.... the brain tasted and felt like wet baking soda......yummm oh and my trainer accidently ate a coach roach... we found out latter he ate one becuase he pulled its leg out of his mouth... ahhaahahhahh welll times up ... love you !!1

elder bRunson #3