(writer's note: I didn't have Chad/ my editor read this since he's bogged down with law school applications so if there are some bad grammar issues or horrible comma splices just know that I'm tired and trying my best)

So as I have mentioned before the way the Mormon church operates here is a little different. Everyone is divided into a branch and foreigners aren't allowed to attend church with Chinese nationals. Since there are so few foreigners (we are the only 2 Mormons in our city) we call into a conference call with other Mormons living in remote areas and we form a branch.

If you live in a bigger city with more Mormons you will probably meet someone as a group, but that's not what we have going on.

So the branch relies HEAVILY on email. We get emails about everything, including the program for Sunday meetings. 

We were asked to speak a couple Sundays ago (our topic was "Keeping Christ in Christmas"... if you know Chad and me well you'll already know how we felt about that one) and when someone speaks they want a picture and a brief bio. 

To be honest, most the people in our ward are pretty old and have pretty impressive bios... we don't. So we were scrambling with what to include (not to mention we were getting harassing emails about getting the bio to them). Here's what we sent and the picture we used... so like I said, our branch either things we are awesome or super weird.

We met in California at a wedding. Michelle was friends with the bride and Chad was crashing it with some of his friends. Chad was in school at the local community college and Michelle was working full time.

We got married in the Los Angeles Temple and then almost immediately moved to New York City for Chad to study Economics at Columbia University. Michelle got her degree in Political Science at Utah State University and, until we moved to China, worked as a Customer Service Manager, first for Disney then for Nestle. 

We are here in China for a year teaching Oral English at a Vocational College in Weifang. Then we will move to wherever Chad has gotten into law school (TBA) for him to study international business law. 

Between the two of us we have 27, soon to be 28 siblings and sibling-in laws (wedding in July) and 22 soon to be 24 nieces and nephews scattered all across the United States. It's hard to keep track of everyone all the time!

We both enjoy traveling, reading, watching movies, rock climbing, candy, oxford commas, and miss our dog, Batman, something fierce.