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...

Kumusta!  These first few days have been a little crazy! I got here and just kind got thrust into it. I know they do that on purpose but It was still a little crazy to have no time to be sad. It's still crazy to me that I am going on my mission but I knew that once I got going I would be fine. The first day I met my companion Elder Allen and he's pretty cool! He is from Orem as well and went to Mountain View but he was one of the people I didn't know before. As I was walking into the MTC, I met an Elder Jones and we clicked almost immediately! Turns out he is in my district and my room with his companion Elder Collinwood. We try to keep our room light so we all feel comfortable there.  We have a really funny elder in our district named Elder Feletoa and his favorite line on the first day was welcome to the MTC hence the subject line. It was really funny to get the weird looks from others as they noticed our orange stickers and having us say that to them. The sisters a...