Monday, October 28, 2013

Week 39: Elder Buhler Never Wants to Ride Another Bike After His Mission

1. What exciting thing did you do this week?

 Well I biked 60 km so that was not that fun ahahahhaha.

2. Tell us about your investigators. What are their names? How old are they? What are they like?

L.D. He is a father and if I baptize him I get to do it in the river. So cool.

3. What is the weather there like now? Is it cold yet? 

It's chilly.  I am trying to aquire a sweater. My vest just aint cutting it.


 Ni hao everyone!!!  This week we biked 60 km and that was not very much fun!  Its getting really cold here now and I'm looking for a sweater since the vest is not cutting it anymore. Ah man so I found out me and Elder Xu are here  for another move call. Mom, I'm sorry about the withdrawing the funds but I had to go to Taichung to get my ear drained. It got infected while I was showering.  I got a blessing and ya but ya the medicine and honestly being in this area really really makes you spend money that is not reimbursable. I met a missionary couple,  the Darringtons are from Rupert. They know Kalani Sitake?

I have been really trying to write my journal everyday ever since I watched "Mountain of the Lord." 

I got one of the best compliments last night from Elder Alcoseor Seaone. He was like Elder Buhler is real. Elder Buhler no matter what will always be Elder Buhler, if he is helping you its because he really wants to if he didn't want to he wouldn't. His love is pure and his hate is clear ahahaha so ya I loved that. It really helped. um well I have taught some lessons. One of the people I teach is an ex navy commando who always says he is gonna break my face in but i think he is joking ahahah so thats awsome ahahah . I'm also working with the L family to baptized the dad . He prayed for eternal families  so that was cool. I find my self quoting all the church movies ahhahah. I love it . ah man its cool to hear about senior night for my boys... good way to go out. Anyways O love you all. By the way Elder Brown who lives in Washigton says that his neighbors know us? The Crumps? Brayden Crump? I rode 60 km so that was really not fun ahahaha. I have biked so much on my mish . I never want to see another bike after.  Anyways i love you all.

Elder Buhler

Monday, October 21, 2013

Week 38: Elder Buhler Loves to Wear His Bike Safety Vest!




1. Tell us about your companion:  He is from Taoyan.  He has been out about a year and a half. He is chill.

2. How do you find new investigators? All the house have been tracted before by previous missionaries so we work by referrals.

Hello everyone!!!! What's up!!! So this week has not been too exciting!!! I have been just working hard and trying to enjoy the mish which I think I love now!!! I love it in the sense that this is a once and a life time opportunity so I'm just trying to make the best of it. We had a special training meeting and that was pretty cool. I got to see Elder C and Elder S and Elder N, so all my buddies. We found out we have to wear safety vests when we ride our bikes so we look like hall monitors from the cartoon show Recess. I love it. I wear mine everywhere... when I say everywhere I mean everywhere.... even basketball so the opponent knows where I am! hahahaha. President Blickenstaff said he had some thing that would fix all my problems and I was thinking... "is it a full ride scholarship signed by Bronco Mendenhall to play for BYU?" No, it wasn't that. It was actually the book "Mere Christianity by CS Lewis and man did it hit me hard. Wow that man is a champ. He is an atheist turned Christian. Anyways it was an amazing read. I'm still trooping it out here. Anyways everyone read the Book of Mormon because it helps.... love you all.

Elder Buhler 

Monday, October 14, 2013

Week 37: Elder Buhler Understands About "83%" of What He is Listening To or Saying






1. What exciting thing did you do this week? I watched conference in a closet for 8 straight hours!!!

2. How many hours a day do you proselyte every day? We try to at least get 9 hours in. 


3. Are you still eating on the streets? What are your favorite meals to eat? i am trying to eat healthy. I love papaya milk. I have one everyday I think.


4. How many emails do you get a week from your friends?  Who writes you that is not a missionary? Spencer frix, Derek Parker, jalon sometimes, troy , Caleb McCray, Jonathan Hawes, Megan, not Amie, not Steven G who should, Alejandro, Mitch P., Mitch K .... notice there are not many females....


5. How is your language skills? Out of a 100 percent, what percent are you fluent in  understanding? What percent are you fluent in speaking? I under stand most likely 83 percent.



Hey everyone, what's up!!! What's good? How is everyone!!!! First off.... did I enjoy conference? Well, I inhaled conference!!! Ah man, it was amazing. No joke!!!! I loved it !!!!  It was so amazing. I can't tell you a favorite talk but I sure can tell you this was my favorite conference. Elder Brown and I were in a broom closet of a room watching it. it was awesome!!! loved it! 

I need to stop looking back at all my past sins and past successes in high school football and stuff like that.  I need to realize  that I need to move on.  I actually had a great talk with my mission pres and he was like you need to let go. The screw up josh you think you are is not there any more. Yes, you set the occasional house of the lord on fire or almost start a turf war with some white dude but you have changed. As for looking back, yes I realized I loved football and everything. I have ever done relatively well at but man I needed to quick looking back and to move forward to achieve greater things. A lot of you know that well I'm a dreamer (college D1 ball, astronaut, navy seal and executive of Stark Enterprises)  and the Lord is mindful and ya know maybe those things are out of my reach but deep down the Lord knows whats best for me so he will help me. I don't know if this makes sense to you but then again I can barely comprehend I'm on a mission. Sometimes I am like Josh look how far you have come. Then Edward's Dube's mother comes online and says "Josh, do not look back.  Look at what we still have to do." I have a mission to finish. Emma W. to marry, save the world and become the quarterback of the New York Jets like Flash Gordan so ya!!! 

Honestly I feel awesome right now. Yes, I am home sick but hey who isn't?  Me and my comp have really tried to push for me to learn Chinese better. So ya, I get on average 3 hours of sleep so I spend all that time trying to catch up from what I didn't know at first.

Funny story: I sent a letter to Abbey Erikson (Miss Springville) like 7 months ago... so it came back because it had been all over the country so i thought that was pretty funny.

Person of the week: I would say is Coach Jay for soccer. He was always and has always been a great coach too\ me and always pushed me but realized hey I am a dumb kid and capitalized on that and man can he cook dutch oven.

Tough loss for the ville but they will capitalize on that and win state. .

I love all my devil boys.

Good win for BYU and Utah though. 


Happy birthday to Mitch Paystrup and Bashaan Paystrup!
And NO I am not coming back. Someone said there was a rumor about me coming back for football.... that's not true.... at all. Good luck to my little brother Jacob in state cup. I hope BYU realizes what a talented SMART player you are

Kirk Out! 
Love you all .
Elder Bear Cat

Sunday, October 6, 2013

Week 36: Josh's Branch Has 13 Members, On a Good Day

1. Did you get to listen to General Conference? I actually get to listen to it this Sunday .
2. What great things did you do this week? You will see.
3. How are you finding new investigators? We are focusing on reactivating.
4. Are you feeling any better? Should I call your mission president yet to come check on you? Oh no, he checks on me all the time. It's all good.
5. How many people are in your branch? 13 on a good day.
6. How is your Chinese progressing? Are you learning the language better and understanding it better now that you are with a native companion? Yes, actually I am throwing my self into Chinese and I always speak in Chinese with him. I actually call random missionaries and pretend to be President Blickenstaff and it works and some people say I sound like a native.


Ni hao everyone!!!  This week was good!!! 

I'm glad to hear conference was awesome and that everyone liked it!!! I am outrageously jealous that she and Jerber got to go see one of my favorite bands ever. I listened to them every night at home.

Dang it... I miss night games so tell Caitlin to live it up. 
That's so tight that Jacob got to freaking have his video shown on BYU TV. Dude that kid has talent more than I ever did!!! How's his soccer going!!!
 
I hear Jared is going home in soccer and has a game boy micro? What the heck is that?  Caitlin, glad to have you back in the full dance force!!!! I heard about Chuckie.  Tough loss for him. He is awesome!!! I hope he gets that medical redshirt. 

How was Brother Pickney's funeral.  I am trying to write Sister Pickney!!! I loved Dave.  Ilike to think of him as an honorary grandpa. He was always willing to talk to me about football and the military and always wanted to know if I was gonna play at BYU. If anyone deserves heaven, its that man.
I'd like to think I was raised by the old men of Spring Oaks Drive. Hooper, Head, Palefryeman, Tretheway and Pickney. Grassley too, but he's not an old man.

Anyways this week has been nice. I had a really fun exchange with the ZL, Elder Christensen.  He is from Salem Hills and was Jean Valjean for Les Mis!!! So ya he's boss.  We nerded out!!! I was doing pull ups and the pull up bar fell. I landed on my knees while the ZL was laughing his head off.

I ate some yucky mushrooms. I hate mushrooms still and squid.

We went to another area on Saturday and the place is known for their bananas and I got the biggest gorilla bananas ever. They were so good. I also had banana fried rice which is alright.

Main story I  met these 2 waigoren ( white guys) one is from Sweden, the other is from Florida!!! I was scared to meet em but I was straight up and said he looked like he played college ball and ya he did.  He played for the Mets!!! His name is Sean Bo from Florida. He was a pretty good high school quarterback back in the day and he had all the main schools like Ohio State recruit him and such but chose to go to FAU where Justin is currently at!!! 

But ya we just had this awesome talk and they told me I was not like other missionaries and I was like ya I get that a lot. I answered questions like why we wear garments and why we don't have more than one wife. They really were cool about it. I am actually going to throw routes with Sean today and the Swede named Sam is super cool!!!  Anyways they made me a free pizza because they said I was the coolest Mormon they had ever met.  The reason is because I admitted I had faults before the mish, that i was just a normal guy,  that i understood life better.

I feel like some missionaries forget that people make mistakes and do things because you know they are addicting or they really are fun for the moment... but ya it was a really humbling moment. They have this Taiwanese kid with them who told elder Xu that if that mean white dude ever brought 30 taike he would bring 100 taike... so its like a turf war down here.... but ya they are awesome... Sean also said he was the biggest Scott Mitchell fan ever hahaha. It was kinda funny he was naming off stats and everything. That's when I told him Scott used to be my coach. He lost it then ahhaha.

My comp has been teaching me magic card tricks and stuff. Whoever said guys can't get girls with magic is wrong. I have girls and they are 80 year old taiyou women!!!! hahaha!

But ya my area, Mingjian, is super beautiful!!! One of my investigators is a father and has 2 sons who are ranked in the top 100 of the world in tennis. They are super cool, but ya just working hard out here!!! I love getting emails from everyone. I love you all!!! Thanks Coach Bradley and Calvin for writing me. Thanks everyone who writes me. These emails really pick me up. It helps when I get homesick and when I feel down to hear from you all. 

I love you all so much.

Elder Buhler