Pday #8 :It's going to be a very Asian Christmas!

We did not expected this week to come with reassignment details: Here is the e-mail I received:
"Hey Mom, I only have a few minutes but I will be on again a little bit later. But we got our travel plans..........I fly out of Salt Lake International next Tuesday morning to........................................................................Seattle!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyways, I'll talk to you a little bit later!!!"

I preceded to call, text, and e-mail everyone! Then: about an hour later:

"Oops!! I actually forgot to tell you something..... We have our travel plans.

And after we land in Seattle, we fly to Tokyo.

And from Tokyo to TAIWAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We got our travel plans last Thursday. And someone told us that they wouldn't buy our tickets unless they knew that we were going to get our visas. So, it is VERY VERY VERY likely that we will be going straight to Taiwan. Someone else told us that no one who's gotten travel plans to Taiwan has had to be reassigned or stayed. If you have travel plans, you're probably going.

So we are pretty excited.

WE GOT OUR TRAVEL PLANS ON THURSDAY!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, that is right!! We leave next Tuesday morning at like 3:35 in the morning to go to the airport. We then fly to Seattle at like 8:30 that morning. And from Seattle, we fly to Tokyo. (Yes Amber, be jelly)..... And from Tokyo, we fly to Taipei and take a 2 hour bus ride down to the mission home in Taichung. With layovers and other things, it's over 24 hours of traveling! GOOD GRIEF!!! But it will all be worth it.

BUT, THERE IS ONE THING TO REMEMBER! While this is all fine and dandy, it's still not 100% guaranteed at this point. They told us that it is VERY VERY VERY likely that we will be going to Taiwan on time. But there is still a slim slim chance that something could change. But someone told us that anyone who's received travel plans for Taiwan has not had to be reassigned or delayed, so that gives us some relief. So yeah.....pretty much the highlight of my week.

But among other things, everything else is still progressing well. We are trying to cram in as much language study as we can this last week in hopes of being able to know at least enough to get us by when we get there. Our district is like a family here. We all love and support one another. We are still teaching our 2 investigators, Han Di Xiong (Brother Han) and Chen Jie Mei (Sister Chen). Every Monday we are doing Skype TRC teaching. We get to Skype with members in Taiwan and teach them lessons and stuff. They help us with our Chinese and share their testimonies and stuff, so that has been really cool. 

But yeah, we are doing fantastic and I am loving the language. It's weird to think that this like my last full week here. Time sure does fly. And I'm going to miss this place, but I am so excited to get to the field that I can barely contain it. I guess our prayers have been answered. And our time to help the people of California and Taiwan is almost nigh. "

Elder Chase Joseph Millett

雷長老