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Elder Revelli says to tell his mommy hi! I love Elder Revelli!
We have too much fun....

Hey things are basically still the same on this end. I am learning more and more everyday. I'm not sure if you got my letter about Richard G. Scott coming and talking with us last tuesday but it was aamazing. I hope everthing is going well at home and it sounds like it is. It is very ironic that your program is growing and now you have to work and not just chat with cassie or play that one rome game hahahahahaha.

So some exciting stuff has happened lately at the MTC. They have re done the entire schedule for everyone here. They want more emphasis on teaching and less time for missionaries to waste. The got rid of missionary directed time and they replaced it with more language and personal study. It is actually really nice now because i felt like i was wasting so much time when we would just have 3 hours of nothing to do. We now go to the temple in the mornings on p-day instead of in the afternoon, and all of mealtimes are really early now.

This last sunday i actually went to the MTC choir practice and it was awesome!!!!!!!!!!! We sang a song that was all about the atonement and it is the most beautiful song ever! I will send you the title in a letter or something but i forgot what the title is for now hahahaha. But after we finished practicing it the choir director just said I know that he lives. The spirit was so strong in the room that it was so amazing and i cant come up with any words that can describe it. I love how the spirit just works so well through music. I get to sing today during the devotional and i am so excited.

I did the package and thank you so much!!! i thought that i was just going to get the silver and multi vitamine but when i saw the divinity and those small cakes i almost cried hahaha i dont share the candy with anyone but i may need more mother goose popcorn soon. There is an elder suzuki that loves it. He is learning vietnamese and is going to cali. He comes in the room all the time and just asks for it. He is hilarious and we trade food all of the time.

In gym i have basically stopped running and lifting weights and i am addicted to 4 square. It is the best game ever and i have made friends with a lot of missionaries who play it. It is weird to think that i am playing with people who are going to be all over the world within the next couple of months. Most of them are really fun to play with but a lot of them just get way to into the game and make it a lot less fun for all of us. By the way i have somehow gained about 10 pounds while i have been here hahaha i'm not getting fat but i have put on more muscle hahaha and im not even bad there is an elder in my zone who is going to thailand in 2 weeks that has gain about 40 pounds while he has been at the mtc.

I'm sorry i cant go into much detail about stuff that goes on but i only have 30 minutes every p day to do stuff. Tell adam that they now have the showers sectioned off my walls but the trees of life are still there hahahahahaha. Ask him if he ever played 4 square. I did notice on the picture you sent me of micah that he had scratches all over. what happened to him? And I loved the drawings that i got in the mail. I opened every single one and just laughed and i was so happy. I loved it. I hope cc had a good time at prom and it sounds like she did.

I love you and dad and all the family very much i wish i had more time but i will keep sending mail too. Thank you for the letters it really helps me so much and really its the only form of entertainment that we have here hahaha. I love you so so so much. It is amazing here and how much the lord helps me. I know that nothing is possible without him. There is no other way that i could have done what i have done so far without him. I know that the Savior lives and died and suffered for everyone of us. He lives!!!!

-Elder Bryce Revelli

Hi! I'm still loving it at the MTC. My comp and i had a few issues last night about scheduleing but we got it figured out and everything is fine now. The language is starting to come now. We learned a lot about grammer yesterday so if my letters and email start to sound like a three year old is writing its just the thai grammer that is taking over hahaha.

We had our first TRC on saturday and it was an amazing experience. At the trc we basically teach a pretend investigator the first lesson in pmg. First we had to introduce ourselves and have a conversation with him in thai and both my comp and I didnt do very well hahaha. We were able to talk with him for about 5 min out of the 15 that was given to us. After introductions we got to go back and evaluate how we did and then we got to go back and teach him. Our lesson was good but i was so nervous i didnt teach to his needs and i just taught him the entire resoration hahaha. This week i know the doctrine a lot more and am more comfortable with it so i will be able to say what ever they need to hear.
I love class now because i am starting to actually understand my teachers. ITS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!! but i still have a lot to learn. Yesterday was so awesome! I almost forgot to tell you until my comp reminded me. An ambassidor from Laos came yesterday to the MTC to see what kind of work the missionaries were doing. Since there are no laos missinaries she wanted to see the missionaries who are going to Thailand. She only had time to visit the older group but as my group started to walk out of the classroom building we saw her and we said hello to her in thai. She turned around and she said hello back and she wanted to take a picture with all of my group. The bad part is that we were all wearing very skinny ties and i know the president of the MTC would not have been happy with our ties that we had on. But in the picture i was standing right next to the ambassidor and it was so cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

First email from the MTC

Wednesday through saturday were the longest days of my life!!!! i would have rather been weeding in all of the gardens and emptied the cat box than do what happened again. It was long and we did a lot of work. OUr teachers only spoke to us in Thai and they only wrote in thai script. It is much better now. They speak to us in english more and we also know a lot more thai. The language is very very hard but it is slowly coming.

But now i will tell you about my experience on sunday. The best part of it was the devotional. It was all music. the BYU mens choir came and they sang the entire time and it was so peaceful and the spirit was just simply amazing!!!! After that we got to watch the Joseph Smith movie and it really made me re-evaluate why i am here. I was struggling a lot before and after that movie and dduring it i just cried. I know that there is no other thing that i could be doing right now. I love this gospel so much. One part of the movie talk about Josephs brother alvin. Where his father is dying and he asks Joseph if he will be able to see alvin again, and Joseph answers yes. i jusst started to cry. luckily it was dark and no one could tell but i thought of grandma and i know she is watching me and i want to make her proud. I love the gospel with all of my heart!!!!!!!! I know the lord has given me so much and i am lucky that i can give him just two years of my life. Tell Ryan that he will love it here. The food is good for the most part and the people are all very friendly and they always keep you busy. Tell dad i ran a really good mile the other day. P.E. is another time to get our mind offf of the language even though i still think about it. I can now fully pray in thai as long as i write my prayers down before i say them and i learned how to read script today. I can also say hi and introduce the chruch and myself.

Micah

I got a text from Steph about Micah and Bryce.
Wednesday night Micah was not going to bed very well, he kept talking and he yelled down to us, "Mom! Where's Bryce?" We sdia the MTC. Then they told him that Bryce was just near BYU (Micah knows where that is because they take him to the football games). and that he's fine and that it's ok to sleep there. Then Micah fell right asleep.

MTC

We took Bryce to the MTC on April 6th. We borrowed the Johnson's van, so that we could all fit in. We went early to take a few pictures. Suzanne Hess was there volunteering and got to put his name badge on. His companion is Elder Kunz from San Luis Obispo California.



We were at stop 7.



I love this hug that Micah is giving him. It is one of Micah's big hugs.



Boston Watts was acting as a host and he happened to walk by when we were there.



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A sea of missionaries; I love this!!!!

Adam, Bryce, Cassie and Ciara






Bryce and Micah doing exploding stones.

Bryce and Michael Hess after Bryce was set apart. They are going to try to meet up in the MTC, Michael goes in on June 8th.



Bryce loading his stuff into the Johnson's van.



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Cassie, Ciara, Steve, Bryce, Me, Adam, Steph and Micah



Bryce with Micah!

Farewell Sunday

More pictures from Sunday March 27th.



Cassie made some coconut cupcakes and with some help I made a bunch of little missionaries to go on them.


Micah took this pictures of our missionary!


Megan, Ciara and Hanna.


Brittani, Bryce, Cassidy. I couldn't get a picture with all of them and a straight face.


Bryce's other Dad and Mom; Keith and Shelly.

Farewell Sunday

A few pictures from Sunday's farewell. There were a lot of people at Sacrament meeting. Parker Edwards who is going to serve in Florida also spoke.




Becky Cox, Bryce, and Jim Smith. Becky and Jim were Senior class advisors. Jim was also Bryce's drama director.


Rachel and Maija.

Cassie, Bryce and RJ.

Steph, Bryce, Adam and Micah.


Grandma Revelli, Bryce, and Grandpa Revelli