Blake’s Junior Prom
I call this, “The Models go to Prom.” And, I’m quite proud of my photography skills. A considerable amount of time was spent on TikTok and Instagram finding fun poses for them to try.
Josh Mission Email April 20, 2026: Elder Banker
Guys I still don’t have a name tag in Chinese characters so everyone at church just calls me Elder Banker it’s great. This has also confused a couple of our much older members, they thought I/my family owned some banks and they asked if I could share 🤑. OK so the journal did in fact not…
Josh’s Mission Email April 13,2026: Egg 🥚
We had a crazy week, so I haven’t been keeping a good journal. Just a couple highlights for you guys, hopefully I’ll lock in next week. Life is good, we keep busy. We spend a good part of the morning studying the gospel, the language, and planning our lessons and finding. We are assigned to…
Josh Mission Email April 6, 2026: Smile and Duì Boys, Smile and Duì
I’M FINALLY HERE!! I’ve been in training since late January, but I’ve finally made it to the field. I can already tell that P days are going to be a lot more packed here, but this email will probably be a lot more in depth because so much happened. We had a super great devotional…
Josh Mission Email March 30: A new beginning
If you only read one part of the email, here it is: this is the most important week of the year. Do whatever you can this week to reflect and learn about the life of Jesus Christ and His atoning sacrifice. Gospel Library has so many good resources, start there and keep going! Back to…
Josh Mission Email March 23: Conversation View 1 to go 🙂↕️
Hey guys! I hope life is good wherever you are, I only have one week left here in the MTC! Ill leave here on March 31st. As always we’ll start with the Chinese report. It’s still progressing which is great, I’m learning a lot and getting some good practice solidifying what I already know. The…
NYC with Halle and Angie
When your daughter and her BFF ask you to take them to NYC, the answer is always YES. Angie was performing in her senior showcase in front of agents and talent scouts, and so Halle and I came to watch her. It was Angie’s first time in the city, and it was so much fun…
Josh Mission Email March 16: 2 weeks until fluent – trust
Hey everyone! I’m still cruising here in Provo, only 2 weeks left though! Chinese this week was pretty good, it’s still super hard but I’m making progress and me and my district are having fun with it. In addition to our regular daily life/gospel words this week we got into some cultural learning. We practiced…
Josh Mission Email March 9: Sunsets
Hey guys! It was a good week here in Provo, and I am officially over the halfway mark. Chinese is getting kind of crazy, but I can tell I’m getting better. If you guys haven’t studied Chinese before (can’t imagine why), it is a tonal language, which means that each syllable pattern has 5 different…