Elder Steve Brousseau in Laoag, Philippines

We had a fun week. We had a great zone conference. We learned more about the Bible and about Charity. We had wonderful departing testimonies from those missionaries going home. Elder Peterson also performed! He sang a solo of "I Know My Redeemer Lives". He did really well since he was told a few minutes beforehand that he was doing it. It was great seeing a bunch of my good friends and making a few new ones. One thing we discussed in zone conference was Charity. I then took the opportunity to study that topic that night. The scriptures are ripe with knowledge of charity and I encourage you all to study charity and see ways you can improve. I love that as we develop charity, we also develop the other attributes of Christ. When we have charity, we have faith and patience as well. To be able to have the pure love of Christ is a life long goal but we can get as close as we can in our Earthly journey. I love you all and I hope you all have a great week!

Wow. The first week of training is sort of done and what a week it was. So the title is because that happened a few times this week. We would go to people's houses and they would see 2 Americans and heard me speak Tagalog but only saw the 2 Americans so they told us to come back when we have a translator. Do I look like the Tatay of this elder? I think we look close enough to be related. We are getting the 2001 babies now which blows my mind for some reason. If any of you know the Hawks (aka Adrienne and Darcy) Elder Peterson, my new trainee, is their cousin! That was crazy to find out. Anyway, we are learning a lot together. One thing I have learned this week that I feel impressed to share with you is that God will make you equal to anything He calls you to do. I have felt so inadequate to be a District leader and a trainer at the same time but as I have been going about my duties, I have been able to see the strength of the Lord in my life. It has been a really cool growing exper...