These are some pictures that Bryce sent from the MTC. He didn't send who was in the pictures, so some of them I know from being able to read the name tags, but others, I have no idea, so if anyone knows them, please let me know.




Bryce's desk, can you guess which side is his?



The regular MTC picture of "this is where I'm going."







Elder Kunz (on the left) is Bryce's companion.



Elder Kunz, Elder Appleyard and Bryce.





His three roomates, Elder Appleyard, Elder Stott and Elder Kunz.



The three missionaries of the "missionary Mom's - Elder Stott, Elder Wagner and Bryce.

Bryce and Elder Turner



Greeting in Thai, no shaking hands.

May 3, 2011

HI FAM!!!!!!!!!!!!

Things are still going very well at the MTC. WE just had one of our districts leave and the other thai district leaves on monday next week! it is crazy! I cant believe that i have been here for 4 weeks already. I dont feel like i have actually been here that long. Mom elder patterson told me an awesome story two days ago. He got a letter from his mom that said she googled laos ambassidor in utah and it went to the blog that you started. He told me that she read about an edler that has gain40 pounds since he has been at the MTc. His mom then wrote i hope that that is not you hahahahaha. We both couldnt stop laughing! It really is a small world i love it.

Something else weird happened too. We got a new district and one of the people in that district lived in orem but moved to cedar hills his senior year. He should have gone to lone peak but he wanted to graduate from mountain view. He was in the same ward as brittanie buck and all of my other friends in that area. he showed me a picture of their seminary graduation and it had all of them in it. It was so so so weird to see a picture with all of them together.

Thank you very much for the package that you sent me i loved it and so did elder appleyard. Tell Ciara that she can start writing him. he doesnt get a lot of letters and he said that he would love it if she did. I loved all of the pictures you ssent me. and the one online with the family at walk ms. I bumbed i wont be able to go to the family reunion these next two years. Make sure that you tell them i love them all and tell Jess I said hi. I will pray for all of them. I also just loved seeing uncle bobs smile. if you could next thing you send just send me that picture i love it!. Btw tell ciara that the boy that took her to prom was holding her way too low and everyone in my district agreed with me hahahaha. tell adam he needs to watch for that kind of stuff while im gone.

I did run into rich this last week. It was great seeing him in here. I will ask about the shirts for the little kids but im confused who savannah is???? I love you very much and i love all of the support that im getting

i was thinking about the support during personal study and i started thinking about how much im getting on the other side of the veil. I first thought about grandma and also everyone else who i have known in my life who is no longer here. It really started to overwhelm me. I cant even recall what i felt and what flashed through my mind but i can just imagine what it is like on the other side. I love this gospel and God has truely made a plan of happiness so we can return to him. I love you all and I hope life is great at home. I love you all so much and just remember to thank the lord every day and everymoment you can for everything he gives us. I love you all so much!

-elder revelli

so i dont know how it works but somehow i got an extra 30 minutes on my email time hahaha it is kind of weird but i love it. Tell dad thank you for the letter. I didnt know that there were copies of that show. Thank you again for the package and thank kassidy for sending it and stopping the truch for me hahahaha. I will send the memory card from my camera home and a discription for all of the pictures. i actually have taken a lot. you will be impressed.

If you could tell smith, becky, and lori that i love them all and that i learned so much from each one of them. also tell ciara that she needs to keep guys off of her or i will not be happy and i will figure out some way to do something. hahahaha

also if you could please tell kassidy that i still have not recieved a letter from her hahahahaha tank you for giving those other letters out to my other friends. Tell ryan to start going to mission prep even though im not there to take him with me. Tell the bishop and stake president that i am doing great and that i love it here. I can already sort of give my testimony in thai and i am learning how to read fast now. it acutally is a lot like english. Certain sympols make certain sounds and when you put them in a certain order they make a word. It really is just like our alphabet but just a little more complicated.

If you run into Michael hess tell him to somehow make time go faster so he is in here. He will love it. I am actually really jealous of all of the stateside missionaries because they get to go into the field so fast!!!!!!!!!!! We did learn some facts about the MTC though. One of the speakers just talked about the percent of missionaries going to certain places. Less than 1% goes to southeast asia. And the number of people called to thailand is so small it is crazy! We did learn that the church is ready to build a temple in thailand. They have the land and the permission but they do not have enough members to keep the temple opperating. our goal as a district is to get enough members there and by the end of our mission have Laos open and to see the temple under contruction. There are about 13000 members there but only 2000 are actually active in the church. We have a lot of work ahead of us but im so excited. I love what i get to prepare for!

p.s elder appleyard started to freak out when he saw that he got british candy! he was so excited and said that he loves you guys. hahahaha I love you all very much. and is it true that osama binladen is dead? we heard something about it but we dont get news very much in here. I love you all very much and i dont think that i cant say it enough.

Elder Revelli

From Elder Stott's Blog

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.