Letter from Josh 22 March 2010

Dear Family,

this week has been really good. it went by really fast. we went on exchanges twice andthen had zone conference and then had stake conference. so it defenitely wasnt a "normal" week. but it was really fun. i like weekswhere there is a lot of stuff hapenning, it just somehow makes things better and faster.i am glad to see that mike hardman is safe and well. also chad, if you get this, sorry about the stuff with your comp, i've been there, it sucks. and as for greg, your area is way too different from mine to even kind of relate. if somebody lives in a two bedroom apartment then they are "big people." those dinning rooms are sure to be bigger than most peoples homes here, but somehow, i am glad i am on this end of it.
Dad, the zone leaders train at all the zone conferences, and at many district meetings too. training gets old after a while, especially when its one of those topics that is constantly trained on, like "how can we more effectively use the book of Mormon." its a great topic, just discussed way too often. the sad part is that we never get to choose what we train on (which is why we get repeating topics so much). if it is at a zone conference then pres tells us what to train on and in district meetings its the district leaders asking us to train on a "weak point" in the district.
as long as elder Thornton is going to toot my horn, i will toot his. he is now assistant to the president, and is there because he is better at training then i am. he is also there because he is a better example of exact obedience and because people tend to get along with him better. His training at zone conference was on using the members, specifically the branch mission leaders, and was very good despite the fact that it has been trained on like 1000 times lately and that pres Taylor changed part of the training on them last minute. I look up to him and respect him a lot. i am also glad that i am not in the office and that i get to be out in the field working. i would get bored in the office putting in all of the baptismal records and so on.
anyways, i love you guys. have a great week. and know that God loves you and is looking after you as well.
Love,
Josh