hello famillia!

that is a lot of news i can barely take that you know life is so precious I can barely even express my love for all of you but I want to say that life is as good as we make it. it we lose everything we have is that a tragedy or a new beginning? life is all how you look at it. i learned a lot this week and today I just want to say that time is like a bank account we are charged with a new deposit everyday it doesn't carry over from day to day you have to magnify your time, every second,minute, hour time is a gift now is the time for men to perform their labors and prepare to meet god. every sickness is a blessing because it makes us appreciate our health every sadness is a blessing because it helps us know our happiness. my companion and I are doing well we work hard and have been blessed I have seen miracles everyday and I am starting to record them to see what God has done for me and for my brotheren. I am teaching a beibei(grandpa) who is about 72 yrs old and he got in a car wreck on Thursday so he said he definately would not be at church . he was really cut up some lady just ran into him on his bicycle with her scooter, he has road rash all up and down his arms and on his knee poor guy. so Sunday morning came and we went and visited him to invite him to church he said no we asked him why he said he was too sore and he just hurt too much. we asked him what he had done that morning and he said oh i just got back from exercising, riding my bike. then we said why cant you come to church and he said I cant wear pants it hurts too bad, his concern wasn't that oh I don't want to go to church it was I have to wear pants. so we said no you can come in your shorts and he said ok I will be there and he came to church. That was a miracle. sometimes the concerns of people are as simple as wearing pants instead of shorts. the miracles came it small things resolving the small concerns increasing understanding. sometimes all you have to do is listen. you have two ears and one mouth use them proportionately.well I hope you know I love you I have had many times here that I wish you could be here with me but I have felt your prayers. the work is sweet because of the bitter trials don't wish them away.your missionary on a little green island

elder blackham

PS: wow Chess Died I loved that man so much! he was so hardworking and loving I really appreciated his help with the city and the youth city council. wow i want to ask you can you go tell Bev i love her I haven't talked or heard from her in forever but will you do that for me? They were always so good to me Bev and Dennis they helped me learn so much.

OOPS :)

Hey everyone this is Emilee again. I just received an email from Brigham and he told me that his mission rules only allow him to receive emails from immediate family members - So he has asked me to have his letters from his friends to be sent to me and then I will forward them to him so that he can read them. Thanks for understanding, my email address is posted on the side bar for you. Thanks so much for supporting him, all of you are really great!

Dear family

well I want to say I am really grateful for my companion Xie he has helped me develop more patience and love than i ever could have just having things go easy. having difficulties is part of making the sweet times more sweet. the bitter is only as bad as your attitude lets it be. I have learned that you cant have a fight if you don't have two people fighting I tried to just wear a perm-i-smile this week and work as hard as I could and the week flew by. Our relationship was really just me trying to make things better i can only influence what i do and how i react so that is what i will do is choose to be worthy obedient and diligent and happy.wei zhi han and lu qin jin will be baptised on Saturday they are so great I am positive they will be amazing members I love them so much, i am leaving wufeng so i will not get to be there for there baptism but i am so happy for them. Move call!---I am now in da ken and am with am amazing companion named elder rodriguez from colorado. Wow it is such a relief to speak in english for a change my mouth is still getting used to it. well i love you all and am grateful for your support and love

LoveElder BlackhamPS

i can't reply to anyone but immediate family members through email so can you relay to elder and sister dan andersen that i am so greatful that they sent me that nice email and It really helped I love them and that i know how they feel with the heat and the rain.

ok so my week was pretty crazy. Yang jian Hua didn't get baptised this saturday he lost his desire to be baptised and he really just needs to keep reading and praying and going to church. I was able to baptise the sisters investigators named chen guan yu and chen yi fan that experience was great I really can feel the spirit in the ordinence of baptisim and on sunday I helped confirm guan yu and I had a great spiritual recharge there aswell. I know that the lord will provide for us, our heavenly father really does love every one of us. The work is hard but it is worth it, I love doing hard things things that are above my own ability that the lord can help me to accomplish. I know you can learn from good and bad examples there is good and bad in all of us we need to find the good iin eveyone and the more good we find the less bad we have. I hope that I can overcome the hard times and focus on the good , my companionship has been on the rocks recently but I will keep compamenting , changing and copping with the change, repenting and forgiving. I know that heavenly father wants me to learn somthing from my companion and every situation I am in always progessing and always need to stay hopefull.I love you and pray for you. find the good

elder blackham

hello my beautiful family

ok i have had a great week thank you thank you for your the love and support from the homestead I just realized I have been away for nearly half of a year, but when I talked to you on monday----sunday for you ----- I really felt like it was only yesterday I left home. The work is beautiful here and everywhere our mission is preparing to merge soon so that is going to be exciting here for the next few months. I am so glad I was able to hear from Granma and Grandpa I love you all so much I couldnt immagine not being able to know that I will be with you all forever if i stay worthy obedient and dilligent, the gospel is a beautiful gift that we need to praise heavenly Father for every day of our life. I just want to tell you how much I appreciate your love and encougement. I had the most expensive day of my mission on monday I realized I needed a new tail-light so I bought thst then i bought new grips for my bike because my previous grips were bad and anyways I am just greatful for eating so cheaply that last month because it was around 90 dollars for one day... anyways I will love you and leave you but before I do 2 timithy 2:21 +24 this is a great scripture about all of us in the church. you can use this as my contribution to familynight this week. Dad way to go with the bithday gift i think that is great I am excited for you. Ok Mom I just want to say happy birthday and I love you all

Elder Blackham

Mother's Day

Hey everyone,

This is Brigham's sister......I spoke with him yesterday on the phone and he is doing really well, and is speaking Chinese!. I found out that he hasn't posted because he is not supposed to do anything but email when he has a chance to use the computer. So needless to say, I will post his emails for him. He just sent some pictures too so when I get them from my mom I will post those for you too. On the side bar is his email address. He would love to hear from all of you for sure! Thanks for being a fan of my little Bro and supporting him on his mission.

Sincerely Emilee

Arrival in Taiwan

Please notice my change of address for future letters; thanks. You're all great, and I'm so busy, I haven't got time to post my latest experiences, but they're soon to come, so just hang in tight and I'll make it worth the wait. Thanks so much for your love and support.