Last week I took my companion down to Bangkok to get on an airplane to head home. He has finished his mission and has left me and my MTC group as the oldest missionaries in the mission! I am now in my last transfer of my mission. The next time I go down to Bangkok will be the last time I go down to Bangkok. These 2 years have flown by! But I got a new companion as well and his name is Elder Westwood. He is from Spanish Fork and he finishes his mission 6 weeks after I do. I'm way excited to be companions with him! We have been hoping to be companions together ever since we've known each other but it would be impossible because we are so close in age in the mission. The only possible way for us to have been able to be companions was to be Zone Leaders together and here we are! Zone Leaders together! Its going to be a great last transfer here.
So Ive been run out of stuff to write about lately but if you guys would write me and ask some questions, I could have stuff to write about.

Steve

Hey,
So this week marks the start of Hot Season here in Thailand. It starts in March and goes until around July. Once in July, the Rainy Season starts but the temperature stays the same, super super hot! The temperature is so hot here in Thailand at this time of year that our Mission President changed our working schedule. He is now having us wake up at 6 a.m., exersize, shower, eat breakfast, and then leave the house to go work at 7:30 in the morning until 1:30 in the afternoon. At that time, we come home and have our personal study, companion study and language study until 4:00. We then go back out and work until 8:30 when we come home and plan for the day. 10:00 p.m. we are in bed. Our schedule before was we would wake up at 6:30 in the morning and have our studies in the morning as well. Leave the house at 10:30 a.m. and work until 9:00 p.m. Now it's just too hot to do that and we had to change our schedule because people just won't leave their house in the middle of the day when the sun is beating so hot! So today was our first day of the new schedule change and it was really different! I'm not use to being outside so early in the morning. Surprisingly, there was a lot of people outside! Apparently everyone wakes up at like 5 a.m. and they get moving out here! We were able to talk to a lot of people but the hard part is that it's not very convenient to sit down and teach someone in the wee hours of the morning. Usually people are busy going off to work. But I'm not complaining because once 10 o'clock hit this morning, it was hot!! It was probably over 100 degrees and it was just getting hotter and hotter. Going home to to study was great except that our AC in our study room didn't go cold enough! We turned it up all the way but the world is just too hot! Nothing can truly stop the heat here in Thailand. We just have to hide from it the best we can.
Well, I love you guys and I hope you're all enjoying your nice spring weather there in Utah. Talk to you next week.

Steve