Sister Museus, May 4th, 2011

Hello Lovely Family, Oh, how sweet it was to open up my email box and see that so many of you wrote me this week; you all are too nice!!! I miss you all so much. I'm sorry that I never told you in my last emial that I wouldn't be emailing you all until Wednesday because of our temple trip. However, I hope the new senior missionary couple was able to email you and let you know (especially Mom). Well, how spiritually uplifting it was being able to go to the temple today. For some reason I always get emotional when I go the temple. I'm not sure if it's because I'm a missionary or that I haven't gone for quite some time. Nevertheless, it was an joyous occasion and I felt Dad's spirit so close to me; I feel him the closest when I go to the temple. I hope all of you will soon go to the temple so you can share in this uplifting experience as well. It's a long ride to get there, but because of the great D&C DVD that Mom sent to me, we were able to watch many of the videos that were on it. Everyone that it was neat that I somehow had the full verson of the Joseph Smith movie. In addition, I was able to get some letter writing done since I'm a little behind on writing some of my friends and others who have written me. Things have been a bit hard, especially since our two amazing week b investigators didn't rollover because of some things they still need to overcome, which means they won't be getting baptized this weekend (before the move-call ends). However, maybe some really big miracle can occur and we can drop them into a week a (with the mission president's permission). However, I'm trying to not get too down on this matter since I am very excited to talk to you all on Mother's Day. I looked at the times that I could call you and I think it would be best to call you Mother's Day morning. You are all 14 hours ahead of me (I think) so I will be calling the house about 7:30 in the morning. So please be all together in morning because I can only make one phone call. I know this is a bit early, but I have 3 other people who need to use the same phone and they will call their families the following day. I am pretty sure you are all 14 hours behind, but to make sure you might want to look online for me and check the time difference. I will be calling you all on Sunday, May 8th at 9:30 at night (Taiwanese time). You might want to be with each other at 7 in the morning just in case; sorry. I will be able to talk to you all for 60 minutes. I loved that you put it on speaker last time so you can all hear what I have to say and that you took turns to talk to me. You can even invite Mama Norma and Jun if they would like to hear from me (even though that is early and I know Mama Norma isn't doing so well; it's up to you all). Nevertheless, I am so excited to talk to all of you and hear your voices again, YIPEE!!! John, it was so good to hear from you. I'm glad to hear that you are still keeping the office and the house yards looking sharp. I'm sorry to hear that you have to replace so many bushes because of a fungus. I promise to help you out when I return home. Thanks for all your hard work John. We all appreciate it so much! I do have to admit that when things get tough I do often want to come home. I can feel that my days are winding down and will soon be home; I only have 3 1/2 months left. I do hope I can speak better. It has helped a lot having another Taiwanese companion. Sister Lai's English is horrible so we always communicate in Chinese, which has definitely increased my language skills. However, my reading and writing Chinese characters still needs a lot of work, but I am striving to study and memorize them. Well, it's good to hear that you are still keeping yourself in good shape. I'm very proud of you and Cole for getting such excellent times and getting first in your divisions. I will definitely run with you all when I return home since I have to do every other day. I'm still working on my diet of eating lots of veggies and fruit. John, I am still not use to their food and when I do have to eat something oily it still makes me sick. However, I bet you would love their traditional food here. It's also good to hear that Johnny and Jessica will soon be graduating. I do hope and pray that I can find a good job in this bad economy; I bet they will since they are pretty smart and have good working skills. I love hearing from you John and keeping me updated with your life. I also can't wait for you and the fam to pick me up and I can show you around in Taiwan. I love and miss you John. Cole, it was also really good to hear from you. I loved seeing that you are already counting the days until I return home. I actually finish my mission on Aug. 23rd, not Aug. 27th, but you were very close. I'm sorry to hear that Alex is still struggling spending time with the family and at the house. However, I know she is very busy, but I know she could fit in some time somewhere, we all can. Nevertheless, I bet if you talk to her she would understand. Plus, she is graduating this week, which means she will have some extra time too. I'm glad to hear that you are having fun with your friends, driving around, eating pizza and ice cream; it's always good to keep yourself busy and socially active. I would love to watch this fun movie called "Inception" with you. Since I am out-of-date with many things I will definitely need some help when I return. You will need to help me with the new music and movies that have come out that I need to watch and listen to. I loved hearing that you ran a 5K with John and only were 20 seconds behind him. Congrats! Keep up the good work Cole. I am very proud of you and hope to hear that you are getting your partriarchal blessing real soon. It will help you so much! I love and miss you Cole; can't wait to talk to you on Mother's Day! Paige, I'm sorry to hear that Charles didn't get accepted into MIT. However, I am very excited that I can attend your wedding in September. Hopefully I have a big resurrection when I return home since I don't look very good these days with the horrible humidity, the undyed hair, and the need for a good hair cut. Please set me up a hair cut appt. with Jen in September for me. I will be needing one some much. Anyways, I'm glad you all had fun celebrating Easters with everyone including the Hammonds and MN and PJ. It was funny to hear that Mom had put make-up, money, etc. in the eggs this year. I still love that we keep up the traditional with all of the holidays. I also love hearing that you all spend so much time together. I also wish we spent more time with the Hammonds, however, I loved hearing that you play some b-ball with them. I am proud of you Sis. for watching General Conference and going to church with mom on Easters. Keep up the good work! I know the gospel can bless all of our lives. Well, it was funny to hear that you had 4 1/2 bags full of old clothes to give away; you are a pack rat just like me :). You will all have to help me when I return home since I have now idea what is in style. I will also need to some shopping and you will need to help with a new wardrobe. I love you sis and can't wait to talk to you real soon! Alex, thanks for telling me more about your trip to Italy with Whit. I wish I could have gone; you should send some pics of your fun vacation. I'm glad to hear that you had fun shopping and buying some many shoes and eating some many delicious things; like gelato. I will definitely show some of the yummy things in Taiwan when you come. I'm sorry to hear you lost your luggage; I swear it is envitable that they always lose ours. You should definitely tell me more about your trip; I do love details. In addition, I 'm so proud of you sis! I still can't believe that you have your own store open and things are going so great with it. I can't believe you're even doing shows with it. I will definitely have to do some shopping of my own at your cool boutique. Please send new pics of your store since you said you fixed it up. I love you sis and can't wait to hear more from you and to see the pics. Miss you tons! Whit, I'm glad school is over for you, but it was funny to hear that you are now studying for the insurance tests, hehe; it never ends. I do miss you too and can't wait to be home in a few months. I loved hearing that Alex chose you to be the buyer. I'm not too surprise since you are so good at picking such great clothes. I wouldn't mind getting paid with clothes either :) That sounds like such a fun job to do on the side. You will definitely need to help me with my wardrobe when I return home. I am a bit disappointed that you and Alex skipped on RS to go shopping. However, that's is okay it does happen to the best of us. I promise to try and work out my release time, but it would be best if Mom and John did it. I will discuss with them when I give you all a call. Love and miss you Whit. I am very proud of you and the accomplishments you are making! Mom, I'm glad to hear that you had a get-away with your friends. Of course having a good time with you is going shopping (and of course to Phx). I hope you and I and the family can take a trip there to Phx when I return home; I do miss that place since we can always spend some much time with the family and shopping :). I'm glad to hear that you're working on plane tickets. I hope you don't need additional info. from me. I promise to be better and have more to tell you when I talk to you on Sunday. It's been hard to find time at night to ask my roomies since we've been so busy since the move-call is almost over. I am also excited that Alex is graduating too and to talk to you real soon! I still haven't quite decided what I am going to do, but I think I will work for the office part time and work on studying for the MCAT so I can go to graduate school. However, I still need to ponder and pray more about it. I know the economy isn't doing too good, which scares me so I feel like getting more education would help. I'm really glad to hear that the office is still doing well despite the bad economy. I know the family works really hard and that is why it is still doing so well. You are too sweet Mom to think that I am a part of this (of the office doing so well). I believe I have the best family who has the best working skills and that is why it is doing so well (and the help of Dad and our Father in Heaven :) I love you Mom and can't wait to call you. I hope you get your present soon in the mail. Love and miss you to pieces. Love you all family and can't wait to talk to you all! Love you Always,Sister Museus