Last Week in MTC

well i would be ok with getting a transfer just because i feel like i could teach anyone anything in english perfect but i think it would be a lot harder to pickup pork and cheese if i didnt talk it at all for a few weeks so its would be a win lose but i think they will just keep me hear but nao sa they didn't tell us anything about anything yet were just in the dark waiting! thats cool that your getting another car if it makes you feel better mission presidents might drive a avalon but elder oudorf drives a camry and president monson drives a lincon town car! yea the temple is sweet to go to each week i love it try to get it all in before i leave because i cant go to one in africa! the lessons i teach are right out of preach my gospel the words of the prophets are what i use so just read that with teh spirtt and tahts what im teaching im try to be a p.m.g missionary! just trucking along so if its in there im trying to do it! my nose is good and so is the rest of me but right now my spirit is down because as i was walking in some girl had a weedeater and i could smell the gas burning and man did that smell good and bring back good times! hahah oh well better ones on the way! obedience brings blessings, exact obedience brings miracles! bye love you have a good week send me the stuff itold dad to please!!!!

Week 7

on man just a few short days left i cant wait! and i wish i could have weather like that right now i just sat in side of a classroom all day and on Thursday i will be walking around in the 100 degree heat! not cool! 2 months have gone by pretty quick you definitely have to use it to the fullist thats for sure! i cant wait to exercise my fé in real members we have are depater devo last noitch and now were ready to goi just passing time so i hope life on your side of the fence is going well because this week is going to be melhor than yours its mission president week so tomorrow atreves sunday were get one hundred and 13 mission presidents! alnog with that there will be a different and most days many 12 apostles here every day and then for us missionaries on friday they are holding a special devo .. in that devo will for sure be 8 of the 12 apostles and maybe the first presidency there has been no confirmation on that yet! and rummer has it elder holland is speaking! so hope your life is going good love you lots! talk to you from africa!
oh ps they said for me to send you a package it will almost always get to you but for you to send me one... it wont come.. and letters down there have to be hand delivered so they never come maybe once every 6 months.. but who knows i guess just maybe count on emails.. chow love ya

Week 6

the week has been great just chugging right along like always! my face/...well its broken but for the most part its ok! i mean its not like i cry in pain even day so i will live! im just about to go crazy in here only about 2 1/2 weeks left and i cant wait! I'm so ready i don't even care if i cant speak the language down there i just want to move to africa already! they havn't told us about visas but they said that there has never been a problem with missionaries getting visas going to Mozambique so just don't worry about it! THIS WEEK i get to drag the new elders in! i cant wait I'm way pumped for it i already got pranks i'm going to pull on them and everything! my discussion are going great but funny story so most of the time i do all the talking and my comp elder walker just bears his testimony so this last lesson i let him teach he taught Jeorge about keeping the Sabbath day holy and i was feeling really stupid cause i couldn't understand what was going on and was lost the whole time then at the end i ask jeorge pregunats (questions) and he was like umm i didn't understand a word he was saying so will you teach me that! hahah it made me feel pretty cool and i got to the point where i can speak so good they made me a investigator pequisador im pretending to be micah! its way fun i love being on the other side of things and i read (ler) that section in d&c the first week i got here and ever since then i just read everything in english and study the lessons in english and just let the spirit do the rest so far its worked out great! we will see how it works in africa! Oh by the way not that i really read the scriptures i get all more out of them and there way cooler you should instead of just reading the scriptures every night STUDy the scriptures ever night and what helps me i re enact it to fit todays times! its way fun i get way more out of it! welll got to run, bye love you! keep up the good work!

Me and my comp are going well all is well in zion just waiting for the long trip to africa its 2 days long! we don't memorize the discussion just the main points of them and then let the spirit teach the rest and so far there going well i have a baptism on sunday and i'm going to try to commit my other pesquisador to batismo this week! and i'm also and pesiquisador to read dads letter to know morte! im not district leader anymore you can only have it for 4 weeks then you change! can you send me in a letter jakes new adress! thanks in my district only 7 but now in my branch we have like 35 which is the highest in the ctm jake is a good egg he send me a package! full of junk food! yea he for sure is my favorite brother! its cool that you gave her my adress cause it will make me look cool when i get a letter from a girl other than my mom! oh man phoxy sent me home made bread yesterday and i almost died because it was so good i tried to eat the whole loaf at once! how is life with all the birds back in the nest! i bet thats fun! ill try to send you a letter with my schedule so you know what i do every day just same old same old! oh by the way one of the kids in my zone played ball for byu so i promised him when he comes back my little brother Ryan can beat him in basketball so tell Ryan he better not let me down! i got the BYU teams new player riding on him! well i got to go miss you and love you lots thanks for tudo coisas bye love elder steel!

Week 5

Nice to know you guys are getting rain, you lucky dogs! Its kinda snowed hear yesterday! Looks like your taking after my example and just getting hurt all the time. We had a talk about malaria the other day they said.... your going to get it and not very many have died from it but it is the leading cause of death for people going to africa, so that was nice to hear. Send a pic of ryan in braces i want to see that!!! let him know i'm laughing at him! there was something else i wanted to putt in the package but i forgot what it was.. shame and the language... well i find my day cursing at the people who built the tower of babel if that helps you understand! but other than that my life here is going great my 2 investigators are getting baptized in 2 weeks even though its fake its definitely not a fake spirt you get, so that's fun! i cant wait for one month to go bye! im leaving the states the same time joseph smith left this earth and im pumped for it! last week we got elder Nelson and his wife! it was sweet! well hope all is well in the mother land!

Week 4

Sent from your iphone, how dare you tell me your stories about your forbidden fruit! not cool this is send from a old school computer with a timer counting down from thirty! i'm doing fine just got a small hit in the face with some kids knee in kickball! its broken but its fine just got back from the doc just now but its pretty cool when ever i touch it my whole face goes numb so thats fun! its not that painful mostly because its super numb! but still not half bad! my companion is starting to like me a lot more still times when he hates me but were working on it! his sister came into the ctm this week and so that helped him a lot to have someone there but i know when he leaves he is going to break down again! oh well not my problem! hahah and oh yea i have been continuing studying all the time its killer! i think were doing 70 contacts a week and 10 lessons! all in pork and cheese! and every break we have we spend studying to make sure were saying the words right! and yes we did get some cool visitors last week was Richard Hinkely pres. Hinkelys son and elder neil l andersen and this week is someone in high power to cause they set the TelePrompTers up! so that will be cool i talked to pres. andersen he called me by name and shook my hand! well i'm glad YW is going good glad they follow you if in the next 2 years any hot girls move in feel free to have them write me! Bahaha! nothing much else to write about just doing the same stuff every day i send jake a birthday present and with it i send pictures of a few stuff so you will have to get them from him! jake got the shaft the rest of the families birthdays will be in africa so i can get them cool stuff jake... ctm he got nothing cool! hahah oh they moved me into a 3 some companionship with an elder going to brazil his comp got a vista so he is with us now he is pretty cool! Well my time is beeping one minute left so i got to fly by love you! talk to you next week, chow chow!

I would love to play board games but the pass the pigs i asked you guys to send me and the popcorn still hasn't came yet! so until then its all systems go! i just got back from the doctors i broke it all right but there nothing they can do about it so they said to just man up i have the ex rays there pretty cool! always nice to see there is nothing on the inside of my skull! ryan and Tayler are done with school... wow that was quick! hhahah to bad they didn't the the moon bounce! the language.... well its coming for just learning it 5 weeks ago i guess its ok but it doesn't feel that way i can almost translate everything on my own but other and speak enough to get me by but im sure that will all change when we go to africa! nice to know you got your braces off! Ryans turn now!!! YES!!! hahaha i thought shane and sadie were suppose to be there last week! well i know shane always late! its been raining this whole week so i had to do gym inside everyday so to go to the real world to see a doctor was a shock! i was talking to everyone i saw! it was nice cant wait for the next 4 weeks to fly by then maybe i will have cool things to write about i was talking to a girl in the doc office and her friends just got back from there and said they have ivory everything for dirt cheep so if you want anything just let me know! Hey and send me that popcorn all ready i precisar it! bem esperiansa tudo bom! amor vocé chow!

Week 3

oi! pai! How is things back in the real word! Nice to hear your bike is running great cause so are my feet ya little punk! Jake sent me a pic of the new kawi's, man oh man there nice! but no worries when you guys are riding your bikes i'm talking to apostles so i think overall the joke is on you! yeah my comp is not a fan of me but it really doesn't hurt my feelings the only thing that bothers me is that i'm sure were not teaching with the spirit we should teach with cause of it! But my district loves me i talked one of the kids in my distract into taping pillows around his face and letting me launch a small work out ball at him with are workout bands! the first time we missed it came back and hit another kid in the head and left a good lump the next time we got him in the face tho! needless to say he didn't want to do it another time! so yeah all the missionaries are low right now in the ctm (thats pork and cheese for mtc its pronounced ctm e) there is only like 1300 but by the middle of summer there is going to be 2500, so were at a low point now but recruits are coming! And thats not all that are going to africa that is just my distract there is still one other distract that is the same size ill try to send pictures of them all sometime this week! and you know if scott park doesn't work out next year you can always come to africa! we had a guy come in and talk to us about it the other day in basic, because there all slaves there they speak trash pork and cheese the bugs are huge, there is no cool animals because they were all killed in the war, and monkeys try to steal your stuff all the time! He said the food is either very very bad like fish that live in sewage dumps or its normal world food. He said they wont let you eat with the members most the time so you cook your own food and bring it to eat at the members house! There a lot more cool stuff to but i'm running low on time, but he did say the rats are the size of big cats and you hunt them at night, and after 2 months you get immune to misquito bites so thats cool! Well i'm off love you miss you talk to you next week!

well hello! Man i was laughing pretty hard where i heard Tayler snapped the phone, hahah poor kid! So we got new kids in that we are training to speak pork and cheese and one of them hasn't got endowed yet, i told him to do that this morning that was pretty cool! Nice to know you are getting your familia back this week but just to let you know they wont fill my whole! I'm just to amazing hahah! yeah so far the only apostle we got was Neil L Andersen, but i got to shake his hand and tell him i was cool and stuff like that. We got a new branch president which i'm glad cause the last one hated me! hahah and yes i'm still district leader but it might change the 4 week they try to switch it all up there so maybe then i can get released, until then i'm still in charge of getting the mail! And no my companion isn't an athlete he is into yogi and he is vegan and lots of other stuff. He yelled at me the other day cause I drink 4 cups of root beer a day... so i did what everyman would do.... went and got 2 more cups of root beer and chugged them right in front of him! its kinda mean i know but you get whats coming to you his sister comes into the ctm tommrow and he thinks he is going to go meet his family, little does he know! How is my picture hunting going did you find it yet! I'll try to send some pictures this week sometime if you send pass the pigs and popcorn oh and easy mac! I lost 5 pounds already because it hurts to eat! my nose might be broken.... not really sure but if it was up to me i would guess yes! oh well got to fly love you miss you!!!!!!!!!! love elder steel

Week 2

....I didn't even know it was a greeny box till later that day and one of the elders from my district was like oh your parents sent you a greeny box too! I was like yeah.... i guess they did! so i was in the temple today and i was thinking you know if Adam wouldn't have ate they forbidden fruit my dad wouldn't have to be out in the lawn picking weeds all day long! BAhahah maybe not the right way to look at it but hey! so the nariniah hole is a hole behind the closet doors thats just big and leads to empty space, and the pillow room is where they stick all the pillows for every missionary that is not in use and its about the size of my room and stuffed to the top with pillows, i got one of the workers to take me in this Thursday, i can't wait! well glad to know you guys will be having fun cause I'm trapped in a room all day with a teacher that doesn't speak my language just guessing words!...Oh by the way they gave me medicine for my tooth and my leg and i found out the hard way that if i take them together i stop breathing and have a heart attack! That would have been nice to know before i took them. I didn't really stop breathing but it was pretty close and I'm almost 100 percent sure that i had a heart attack! NOT FUN!! and on the I'm hurt note, since i stopped taking my tooth pills i can't chew on that side of my mouth cause it hurts, I also chipped my front tooth and i think i broke my nose in basketball but its all good! Just adding stories to my mission list! So I'm teaching my second investigator its going well i can pretty much understand everything he says. I just learned that were on a pilot program that is you get more playing the game than you do studying the game so we are one of like 5 groups in the MTC that is doing it and we have been teaching since day one! it works pretty well. Phoxey sent me cinnamon rolls last friday I'm not sure if it was just cause i haven't eaten real food for a while but they were so good, i loved it! Were learning Brazilian Portuguese because no one here can teach Moz- Portuguese so they said once we get down there we will pretty much have to relearn the language, that is going to be a killer! well I'm out of here off to do my laundry, have a good week love you lots!!!

Week 1

oi!! tudo bem! como vai? Hows life on the other side of the vail? It's going good over hear! life in the MTC is..... well.... a lot better than life at home hahahah! But it does have its ups and downs, the food is definitely not moms food! which brings me to the point will you guys send me popcorn i'm craving that SO bad! not really sure why! oh also can you find me the picture of christ holding a black baby in africa and send that to me, thanks! Studying is killing me i just want to be outside running around! but i'm starting to get use to it, maybe in a few weeks i will be use to studying all day. I guess its paying off cause i can speak a poco. I'm starting to find out all of the missionary myths and finding them like the pillow room and the nariah hole! They definitely keep you busy thats for sure! I can't wait for the 9 weeks when i'm out of here and in Africa! We have devo tonight and were hoping it's someone from the quorum of the 12 but were not getting are hopes up! oh those headphones that you saw shane using, i have to use them in a program called tall, it's the worst for the first 3 hours of it it was cool now i just want to throw the computer out the window every time we here tall! My teacher Irma Smith wont speak english to us so in the whole time i have been here i have heard maybe one hour of english from him, so i guess were getting thrown in by immersion like baptism. Well the clock at the top of the screen is beeping read and black 2 mins so got to go, love you lots!!!! later gator!javascript:void(0)

First Letter Home

My companion is great his name is elder walker from salt lake he knows every single person in the MTC so its kinda hard cause he never wants to be with me only his other friends but were getting better! my distract is sweet to i'm pretty sure it is one of the best! but maybe its just cause i am i'm in it! they made me distract leader so the whole time anyfree time i should have i'm in meetings and interviewing people so i decided that i'm going to be super rebellious this week so that i wont have to take the place of zone leader because are zone leader leaves to brazil on friday! I'm definitely going crazy in here though, i didn't even know it was possible to study for 10 hours a day and now i'm forced to, it's getting to my head!!! but i guess its good for me. so far i can say my prayers and bear my testimony in Portuguese but thats about it. I'm teaching a guy named mario i go in for my third lesson tomorrow im not really sure if he knows what i'm saying but i hope he can just feel the spirit! it pretty crazy definitely not what i was expecting, but...i like it and i hope soon i love it! the other elders in my zone that are leaving to brazil have been here 9 weeks and they can almost speak the language perfect so i'm hoping that will be me but i'm not holding my breath! oh by the way i got some bad news...........for you.... not really anyone else... i cant call home on mothers day i guess the 1600 other missionaries need to use the phone and since we just saw you we were the first ones off the list! you win some you lose some. P day in the MTC is not really a p day cause you have to get ready for the rest of the week do laundry and temple then learn what i'm going to teach mario tomorrow so its not much of a day off but i get a few seconds. well i got to get going but have fun in the real world i love and miss you!!! love Elder steel