Elder Steve Brousseau in Laoag, Philippines

Time flies when you are teaching about Christ! On the 24th I reach my 6 month mark on my mission! Craziness! Happy Anniversary this week to Chris and Jess! Super excited for you! Congrats to all my friends getting mission calls for the last little bit! I'm proud of you! This week in terms of teaching was uneventful. The best teaching we were able to do was an FHE with some members but that was really fun! They do have some interesting traditions here for Easter that includes a parade with "floats"(really just carts that they pull) with statues that signify Jesus's life that they walk with on Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. It was interesting to watch. Easter was great! I always love celebrating Jesus especially when it is about His mission on Earth. I know as we always try to celebrate Christ and put Him as the center of our lives, not only will we be blessed but people will see the change in us. People have always asked me why I'm so happy all the time and most of...

So I haven't actually watched General Conference yet sadly but I will get to next week. So as a brief summary of our week, we did a service project to help some one renovate their house, we are still teaching and some of them seem golden, and we had fast Sunday. If you are just wanting to know how I'm doing, I'm great! I'm getting this out of the way so I can tell a long story but those that don't want to read it can see how I'm doing.  So on Wednesday, we were  on our way to San Isidro but on the way there, we didn't feel like we should go that way. So, we went back to central to see if that is where we were supposed to go. We felt the way to go was Puyupuyan, which we did. Then, all the people we were going to visit were not there. So, being kind of confused, we went to Naglicuan to try to visit a member that was in the clinic recently. On our way there, we passed the house of some one we're teaching. We thought we heard some one say elder from the...