Elder Steve Brousseau in Laoag, Philippines

Hello to all! Starting off, I love you all! Life is crazy so I just felt like I should let you know that you (yes you) can find peace in Christ. Anyway. Saturday: We taught again and it went pretty well. The Elders from the "older" districts were packing tonight which was really crazy to think that they are going to the Philippines on Monday and getting there on Wednesday. Since we had Daylight Savings, they are now 15 hours ahead of us. We got new zone leaders today! It's Elders Jones and  Collinwood .  Sunday: It was a good sacrament meeting. Brother  Tuttle  spoke and it was a great talk. It was an interesting day. I felt a little sick earlier so that wasn't the best. We had a devotional with the  Lux  Singers and they are like chamber choir. They were really good and shared a good message. We went to Elder Holland's "Missions are forever" which was really fun. He had an interesting perspective on missionaries and how they are the closest thi...

Happy Birthday Mom!   On Saturday, we have classes in the morning which was kind of nice. During class, we found out we would go to the TRC on Monday. TRC's are pretty much teaching a return missionary who is speaking only the language. It was kind of intimidating until we met the people and then it was less so. They know that we don't know the language so they help you out as much as they can including speaking Spanish sometimes to help with a word. The first guy we taught spoke most of the time so we didn't have much of our lesson that we used. The second guy was really quiet so we taught our entire lesson and still ended up leaving early. It wasn't the worst thing though. That meant we were able to have a one on one with Sister Aquino on what we could improve.  I don't know what it is about Saturday nights but I had another really spiritual conversation with Elders Lewis and Anderson from my district. We were talking about our testimonies and Joseph Smith and...