Last MTC email?!

Hey there everyone!
I can't believe it but it's about that time of the mission. By the way I mean I have one week to go and I'm on my way to the Philippines. It's official, we got out flight plans and we're leaving October 29th! I am super excited and I cannot wait already. This is the most excited and the most nervous I have been the entire time I have been out here. I remember a month ago thinking I wanted to go in the field and teach even though my Tagalog was horrible. Now it's here and I'm super stoked. This past week has been awesome. Obviously the flight plans coming in was super sweet. We have also been doing a lot of reviewing of the Tagalog since we know it all already. Joke joke joke. The Tagalog is really coming along great, I know that the only reason that I've been able to learn Tagalog like this is because of the Spirit teaching me and because of my Heavenly Father helping me out along the way. I am so grateful that He has helped me so much, not only here but throughout my entire life. We had a great couple who came and spoke to us for the Sunday night fireside. They were awesome and they really focused on the way missionaries need to be in order to be successful. So many people have talked about it but it is so true. "Obedience brings blessings, exact obedience brings miracles." It's something like that :) So we've also been teaching a ton of investigators lately. Well it's the same ones, we have just been teaching them a lot because we really need to start getting ready for the field. There was even a day when Elder Webb and I taught four lessons. It was great. The other day we did a practice lesson on one of the fundamentals and we actually did it in English since it was the first time we ever taught it. Elder Webb and I were both thinking that it was so weird that we were teaching in English since we were so use to the Tagalog. It was cool though and we really learned a lot from it. On Sunday we went on our Temple walk and it was actually the last one that we have here at the MTC. It is so weird that we have had all these Temple Walks and all of these other experiences, and now we're coming to the point where basically all of them are the last ones. Like today, for example. Today is our last P-day here at the MTC since w leave on a Monday. It is so weird! So a lot of pictures were taken at the Temple because of the Temple Walk. I am so grateful that I had the chance to come here to the MTC and learn all of the things that I have learned. I have grown so much and it's just a wonderful feeling. I came in not knowing Doctrine and not knowing any Tagalog, and now I know a lot more Doctrine and I can have a full conversation in Tagalog. It is so amazing. I know this church is true with all my heart . I know that missionaries are called by a living prophet to go to countries and states to teach people that they are meant to teach. Out Heavenly Father has a plan for every single one of us, and it's our job to follow that plan and do everything we can to come unto Christ. I'm so grateful for this opportunity to go to the Philippines to teach the people there and I know I'm suppose to go to the Philippines because that is where my Heavenly Father wants me. Well that's about it form me. Last email from the MTC so the next one should be from the Philippines. I love you all and thanks so much for everything!!

Elder Stephens