Week #4

 Ni hao,
Time is flying here at the MTC. I have been here for a month which is about half of my time at the MTC. I know there is so much more preparation that I need to do, but I just want to go to Taiwan so bad!!
The language is coming more and more each day, the other day we actually talked to some Elders from Taiwan that are here to learn English so that was really fun. This week we did our first teaching of the Plan of salvation, which is not easy at all in Chinese.
But as I have gotten to study the Plan more, it just amazes me how much our Heavenly Father loves us, and that he has made it possible for us to return to live with him.
 My zone decided to have Christmas on August 25 because we won't be here for actual Christmas, and who knows what they do for Christmas in Taiwan.
 We taught our second TRCs this week. The first sister we taught was from Beijing, and the second brother we taught was from Taiwan. We taught about the Book of Mormon and how we can receive answers through reading it. I love TRC because we don't have to worthy about teaching them things that they don't know, we can just focus on bearing testimony and helping them come closer to Christ.
The closer we are to Christ the happier we will be, and we can do that by just doing the primary answers: Reading the Book of Mormon, Praying, Going to the temple, Going to church.
 Sunday was my first fast Sunday at the MTC. The testimony meeting that we had in sacrament meeting was so good. I wanted to bear my testimony, but every time I went to stand up about 3 other people did. 2 people that were going to go up there didn't even get the chance because we ran out of time.
During choir they told us that the Nashville tribute band is coming back in a couple of weeks, so thats cool.
 Matthew Holland spoke at the devotional. He started out by talking about how Jake was in the Mexico City MTC and this was their first Sunday without him. In his talk he talked about Joseph Smith, and the stuff that happened in his life that usually doesn't get talked about, like his families struggles before he became prophet. He invited us all to study more about the lives of Joseph Smith and to gain a sure testimony that he is a living prophet of God, and that he translated the Book of Mormon. After the devotional we watched Ephraim's Rescue. Missions are super super hard, but I'm thankful that I wasn't a pioneer. The Pioneers are definitely some of the strongest most faithful people to walk the earth.
 There is an Elder in our zone whose name is Elder Van Slooten (from Arkansas). He is super good at the violin, and he can play any song if you just hum the first part of it. So every Monday we go listen to him play the violin for a little bit, and we call it violin Monday.
 The Tuesday devotional was so awesome because Elder Andersen spoke. Me and my companion got to meet him before the devotional, but he was running late and there were a couple of other Elders there whose dads served in his mission, so we only got to shake his hand and take a picture with him. He talked about how missions are not complex, but they are still hard.
This has been one of the hardest things that I have ever had to do, but I know what my purpose is, and its so simple. Invite others to come unto Christ. The Gospel makes me so happy and I love that I get to spend 2 years helping other people become that happy.
 I love you all so much and I am so grateful for your constant prayers!
 Elder Bosco

Elder Bosco with Elder Anderson

Provo High Taiwan Missionaries
Elder Bosco, Elder Jorgensen, Elder Kelemen, Elder Heaton

p-day pic with Christian (Wesley's friend from High school that is teaching at the MTC)