October?!

Hey everyone!!
How is everyone doing?! I always feel weird saying this because when you read it, you really can't answer me. Anyway, life in the MTC is still pretty awesome. The people are all so great and the language just gets better and better. By that I mean I'm able to speak more and more. Elder Webb and I are really trying to speak our language a lot to really get used to speaking it once we get into the Philippines because we really don't want to be all comfortable with English out there because we won't be speaking it too often The lessons are all going real well. We just got two new investigators this past week, so that gives us a total of four that we're teaching right now. All of them are really receptive and we feel that they are learning a ton. So that's awesome. I use awesome a lot. Fast Sunday was awesome, a lot of us got to bear our testimonies, and Elder Webb and I both got to as well. The spirit was so strong as we bore our testimonies, especially since the whole thing was in Tagalog. We had mission conference for fast Sunday too and it was so cool. There were a ton of speakers since it's two hours long and they all had really great talks. The MTC President, President Brown, talked about the apostasy and the restoration. He really touched on a lot of things and it was really cool because I really got to learn a lot about each subject. I also finished the Book of Mormon again on Sunday. I told myself I was going to finish it twice while i was here, once each month, and so far I'm right on schedule. I get so happy when I read the Book of Mormon and especially when I get all the way done and finish it. My testimony of it grows each time I finish it and I really learn something new each time I read it. That reminds me, I read in Mosiah 4 and a lot of parts really stood out to me. Towards the beginning it talks about the Atonement and how we can be perfected through the Atonement. It also talks about the joy that we can receive when we believe in Jesus Christ and His atonement. It then talked about how our Heavenly Father is so loving and how we really can do all things. Verse 9 really says it all. Then later it talks about how we need to be kind towards everyone. Christ was the perfect example of a giving and a caring person. And it is our job to be giving as well. I also was reading a little in Moses, in chapter 4 actually, and a lot of it talks about what happened in the Garden of Eden. It really just explains why the Fall had to happen and that is was not a total mistake by Adam and Eve. The Fall needed to happen in order for us to truly live the way God intended us to live our lives. Sorry, I just get to study so much here an I felt like sharing. some new changes came about in our district on Sunday, and I got called to be the new District Leader. I'm pretty excited about it, mainly because I get the mail for everyone. No really though, I'm excited to see what happens these next few weeks as I try to be a leader for this district. Honestly, this district is so awesome and it isn't going to be too tough being their District Leader. Well, that's it from me so I hope you all have a great week!!

Mahal ko kayo,
Elder Stephens