Hey hows it going? So talked to some people and they said that Dear Elder did work in Chile but I am not sure if thats right or not. I only heard that from missionaries so I haven't got that confirmed yet. So ya I am not sure. I am probably going to be sending home a package with some stuff, so hopefully i am not over in my bags going to chile so i have to pay some ridiculous 300 dollar fine. So ya it probably just have some books and that bath robe and stuff. So my knee is doing well, there is nothing new to report its back to normal. It was actually a really awesome blessing from the Lord to have the basketball courts closed. They closed them 2 weeks before we came and are opening them 2 days after we leave. That is a true example of the Lord not testing you more than you can bare jk. but ya thats been cool, during gym i ve been playing four square which is fun and not really that physically demanding so ya its all good with my knee. this last fireside was ok, not the greatest but still good. I dont remember the guys name but he was a released member of the second quorum of 70. He of course talked about obedience. I am pretty sure that we have not had one speaker who hasn't talked about it, but that is a really good thing because it is so important. Obedience really is such a huge deal, you really can see a difference in the elders who are exactly obedient and the ones that aren't. So ya I am working on being diligent and obedient. Those are the two most important things you can do along with faith. With these three things you are then worthy to have the spirit with you, which is what actually does all the work, you just have to be worthy of it and then ride the wave jk. I really like the mission, its so awesome, right now its kind of hard learning Spanish but I know in the end its going to be so much better that I learned a language. Its also really humbling which I think I definitely needed. So ya not a whole lot new to report, doing well excited and scared that I only have less than two weeks and then I am going to Chile. I feel ready to go, but so unprepared. but i guess I' ll learn trial by fire. I ve been working really hard and Spanish is starting to come, which is really exciting. Unfortunately I am going to Chile where they speak a crazy Spanish and add weird endings on words just for the hay of it like po, at least thats what some of the guys who served in Chile said. So ya I am excited healthy happy. Hope everything is going well back home. Love you all!!!

Hey mom, hows it going? I usually email you around 3-5 o clock on Wednesday. Also ya its a mission rule that you can only email your parents. I am pretty sure its a grand scheme between the United States post office and the church. haha jk. I think missionaries are the only thing keeping the post office in business. So ya just wanted to clear that up. Its going really well here. Yesterday we got to go to a fireside by Elder Snow who is in the second quorum of 70. He talked about the importance of choices and they make you who you are. It was pretty good, but after hearing from Elder Holland there is really nothing that can compare. jk. Also yesterday we got to teach in the TRC, to a nice Mexican lady. The lesson was in Spanish, so its still hard because you can't say everything you would say how you would say it, so you have to come up with different ways of saying it, but most of the time i can get my point across. The lesson went well and she committed to be baptized and read and all that good stuff. She was Jewish and didn't believe in Jesus which was a good change, because every other single time the person has been Catholic so this was a good change. In the first 2 weeks here i learned more than I did in my cochise college class the whole year. I am learning a lot both in spanish and in the gospel. Everyday you just learn so much. Its kind of crazy because one day I will look at a sentence or a word and won't be able to remember it or pronounce it and the next day i ll come back and be able to say it perfectly, well maybe not perfectly but pretty good. I can definitely feel the Spirit helping me. The gift of tongues is real. I still won't probably understand a thing when i get to Chile because there spanish is crazy, and they speak ridiculously fast and add werid ending on the words like po and crazy stuff like that. So ya my goal is to be able to speak well before i leave, and then hope the listening comes. Most missionaries i talk to say it takes about 3 months in the field to really know whats going on, so I imagine it will be the same, so I'll just work hard and do the best i can. I got a hair cut today which was cool, because there free so ya it feels really nice. We went to the temple today which was really cool, i can almost complete the whole thing on my own. Tell Jon good luck on his job and hopefully everything works out. Um theres really not a whole lot to say, except that I love you. Thanks again for your package and all your letters. Its always nice to end the day by reading a letter. So ya thanks again for everything. I love being a missionary. I swear i know the scriptures so much better now. There are things in 2nd Nephi that i swear ive never read before and new ideas just come to your head. The spirit is so strong and teaches you so much. So ya I just close with that I love you and love being out here, its going by way to fast I only have 2 and half weeks left at the MTC, it feels like i just got here. Love you lots

Elder Brimhall

Hey mom love you lots. I am doing really well, hopefully everything is going better back home. Thank you so much for your package, that was exactly what i needed. My mission is going really well, it is really flying by, the longer i am here the more i love it. spanish is starting to come around its still slow but i can speak a lot better and am starting to understand better as well. We had to teach our first lesson in spanish yesterday, which was good but a little crazy. The guy was asking if everyone had the priestood, and we were trying to explain that it is the power to act in gods name, so he was asking if it was the same thing as keeping the commandments, but it was really hard to understand him, so i have a bad habit of saying yes anytime they start rambling off and i have no idea what they are talking about. so he asked if every one had the priesthood and i said yes, which i knew was wrong because right when i said it his eyebrows went up, so i had him repeat the question like 3 times, so ya that was crazy, but eventually i was able to understand what he was looking for and answer him. They say make as many mistakes as you can while your in the mtc so i guess it is good in a strange way. Last night was awesome cause i got to hear from Elder Hinkley who it the son of Gordon B Hinkely. He just talked about always being cheerful and having a postive attitude. It was a really good talk. I cant believe i ve already been here for over a month time is flying by. I am loving it here. There isnt any really exciting stories to say you pretty much do the same thing everyday in the MTC but I am learning so much and am really excited to get out in the mission field. I am also a little scared about the language but i am working really hard so i know the lord will help me. my testimony is getting a lot stronger. i thought it was pretty strong when i left and i think it was but it has gotten so much more so, i guess that what happens when you study the gospel everyday for 6 hours. jk. So ya its really good i love both of my teachers, i have a little mexican and a really nice girl. The mexican guy is so hillarious, our class room was really messy so when he walked in he was like this place stinks like mexico everyone in the class was like rolling on the ground. It may not sound funny but it was hilarous, but I guess you had to have been there or I ve been in the MTC for too long lol. also he says jolly rancher so funny, holly rrrancher. So ya he is awesome. My branch pres is pretty cool, kindof an interesting guy but really nice. My disticit is cool, they kindof mess around a little too much but hey what can you do, I just do my thing and don't really worry about what they do. So ya I love you lots, and thanks again for everything. My companion is a pretty cool guy, he is a little interesting sometimes but he is nice and really patient which are two things i need to work on so ya it works out well. today in the temple i did inititories