Zone Conferences and Coconuts

So I have been having a good time down under. I love this place! We have been really busy with zone conferences and that is why I failed to shoot you an email. So I pray you can find it in your heart to forgive poor old Elder Brough!

So this week we just cleaned and cleaned and cleaned out missionaries garages and got ready for the zone conferences in the coming weeks so it was a lot of pretty lame stuff. I made a funny video for the zone conference where I took clips from General Conference and made them say "Clean your apartments!" in clever ways. I will have to show it to you some time... let's say a year from now! Crazy, eh? I hit my year mark. FETCH???? It is seriously so crazy! It makes me sad that it is half over but I know I am going to be loving the next year!

So, there is not much to report on. I can now crack a coconut with my fists. Aren't you proud of me, Mum!? I saw Elder Tou's videos of some missionaries doing it so I thought I would try my hand at it. Actually, I thought I would try my fist at it and I destroyed them! I have some videos I will show you some time. Zone conferences were really good! I don't get to listen because I am too busy doing fleet things for the missionaries like checking their cars and stuff like that but we have a testimony meeting at the end of the conference and I have been able to see the past two testimony meetings and they were incredible! I am really looking forward to the next two this coming week. I just love it! Also a missionary finished his mission yesterday and being in the office we were invited to the departure dinner so that was a cool but weird experience. Elder Kim is going home. There are three elder Kims in our mission and they are all Korean and all happen to be in the same zone so they have nicknames according to where they are from. So we have Elder Cali Kim from Los Angeles, Elder Fiji Kim from Fiji and Elder Philly Kim from Philadelphia. So, back to my story, Elder Fiji Kim was the one going home and it was neat to see the procedure and weird because I still have a year. I told President, "How about same time next year?" He thought it was funny.

So the computer is being dumb and my comp wants to go play rugby so I am being rushed. I honestly can't express the way I feel about you and how much I love you. I will email you in a weeks time. I love you heaps.

Elder Landon Brough

THEN (At the MTC with his companion, Elder Perry, on October 21, 2009)...
...and NOW (at a zone conference exactly one year later on their "hump day", October 21, 2010)

At a zone conference with Elder Stapleton, the brother of one of Zach's mission companions

At a zone conference with Elder Jamie Fagg. He is from the same stake(Ipswich Stake) in England as Landon's cousin, Rachel

With Elder "Fiji" Kim at his departure dinner

Smashing coconuts with his hands

With Elder Tou taking their lunch break at Cronulla Beach


(Note from Nancy: I am trying to figure out why all the pictures that he has been emailing are so small...if anyone can let me know if there is something I can do on my end to get them bigger I'd appreciate it. I've asked him to have someone there see if there is anything he can do from his end. I love technology, WHEN I can figure it out!)