Hello family and friends,

Wow! We just finished our first week and we are euphorically exhausted! We absolutely LOVE the expriences we are having here. I was expecting the MTC to be a fun place, but I never dreamed it would be this great. We love being around all these thousands of missionaries. They are so cute, happy, polite and fun to watch. They walk around singing, teasing each other, speaking different languages and always hold the doors for us "senior missionaries". No place in the world could you find a greater group of young people.

This first week has been learning Preach My Gospel and intense practicing of our Russian. I'm amazed at how much we learned about teaching and how exciting it is going to be. I never thought I would enjoy being a proselyting missionary, but after this week I can't wait to get out there and teach. We have learned more Russian in this last week than we did the last three months of working with our tutor. We have no distractions to keep us from learning and we are much more excited about the language now. Even Norm has learned a ton. We had to bear our testimonies in Russian a few days ago to all the foreign language senior couples, and Norm had his memorized and did a great job. You would all be very proud of him.

We had our first p-day on Saturday so we decided to go back home to do our laundry, run all our errands, have dinner with ALL our kids, go to church in our ward, attend the farewell of one of our missionary boys who we taught the Temple prep class to, have dinner with our wonderful neighbors and then made it back for the Devotional here at the MTC. Tonights devotional was a program by the BYU Mens Choir. What a treat! They are fantastic and their music was beautiful.

Tomorrow we start our second week of training at Welfare Square in Salt Lake. We're excited about this week and all we will be learning. They have a gift here at instilling confidence and excitement with our callings and we feel so blessed to be able to be serving. The stories of the many huge sacrifices some of these couples are making to go on these missions is very humbling and makes us so grateful that the Lord has provided so many miracles for us to be able to go. We have made so many good friends and feel so much love, encouragement, and support from everyone here. There are 25 couples and 1 single sister in our group, all going to various places in the world, and we feel like one big happy "old" family. I think we are the youngest couple here. But we're loving it!

Thank you to ALL of you! We have the best family and friends in the world. So many of you worked so hard to get us here and we love and appreciate all you have done for us. We will miss all of you, but thanks to this computer, that I have a love/hate relationship with, we will be in constant contact with you. We send our love and prayers to all of you and all our "missionaries" throughout the world. The Church is True!

We love you,

Elder and Sister Frost