Dear family
Every thing is going good here at the mtc. Elder baron started to feel sick a couple of days ago, but he feels a lot better now. no one else has gotten sick in my room.  We had another Departure devotional last night.  I think it was the same as the one we had 2 weeks ago.  Besides that there hasn't been a whole lot going on here.  We have been spending a lot of time in the referal center, We have been doing the chats online.  I have had a couple of really good ones.  There are also a lot of prank chats that we get too.  I really like doing the chats because between chats we have a lot of time to just sit and study.  I think i am really starting to like the time we have to study.  It is the most relaxing part of the day.  I can't believe we get to go to arkansas tomorrow.  Hopefully this time we will make it.  We all have our fingers crossed.  So far we think we are going.  We haven't been told otherwise so we are going to go pack right after we are done here doing our laundry.  I think i already told you but we are leaving at 3 tomorrow morning.  We get to Huston at about 10:30 i think. Then we fly out of Huston to Arkansas at about 1:30. I think.  I'm not sure what time we are suppost to get to Arkansas. 
   So thismorning before we all went to the temple,  We were eating breakfast around our table, We were just getting up to leave for the temple.  Elder fjerstad was already standing, and he had his tray right over Elder Steeds head. Elder Steed was in a hurry to stand up and hit his head on the tray that was over his head. Lol, the tray and everything on it went flying.  Elder fjerstad had a bowl of half eaten cereal and a plate on the tray and it ended up all over the place.  I was glad i was sitting on the other side of the table from them.  Elder Millet got milk all over him though. Lol he wasn't verry happy.  Elder Fjerstad and Elder Steed were both pretty emberaced, but everyone else thought it was pretty funny.  We have a lot of fun with Elder Fjerstad.  i think alot of the funny stuff that goes on here has something to do with him.  Well I hope everything is going good there.  I hope Dad and corey have fun on their Hike. I guess they probably already left.  I was glad i got to talk to all of you yesturday.  It was good to hear your voices.  I'll call again tomorrow, but i'm not sure when ill be able to.  Probably after 10:30 when the plane lands in huston.  any way i better go.  Tell everyone i say hello and that i miss everyone.  I think i'm sending a package today and ill put my memory card in it to.  I hope i can fit everything back in my bags.
Love Elder Marshall

Steven's letter June 1, 2009

Dear family
I leave for arkansas tomorrow. I cant wait to get there.  We leave at 4 in the morning so its going to be an early morning.  I'm really excited to get there.  it sounds like everything is going good there.  It sounds like your having fun going hiking.  I was glad to hear that my package is going to get there by the time i get there. thank you.  we had a devotional last night for all the missionaries leaving this week.  i think thats my favorite part of the mtc. the devotionals.  i really enjoy them. every tuesday there is a general authority that comes and talks to us. and on sunday evenings there is a devotional as well.  last night elder fjerstad and i watched the new joseph smith movie too. it was a really good last sunday.  well i better go. there is a line for the computers and i still need to pack and get a haircut before five.  i hope everything is going good there. i love you all and miss you.
love elder marshall

there are a lot of people getting sick here at the mtc. I'm not sick at all and as much as i have enjoyed my time here at the mtc, i'm really glad we are leaving. there have been 3 people in my district that have gotten sick so far. today we have heard that a lot of the people that were supposed to be leaving soon can't leave now. We havent heard anyone say that we cant leave yet and two missionaries from our district left this morning so hopefully we will be able to leave. if we hear anything it will probably be tonight in our class. So would you  pray for all of us here at the mtc? I think we would have heard something by now if we were staying too. anyway i just wanted to let you know what was going on. I hope everything is going good there. Im not sick at all and neither is any one else in my room so hopefully the next letter you get will be from arkansas. I think i might be able to call tomorrow. An anoncment just came over the intercom and said that all leaving missionaries will be delayed for a week. they said that there was a news release going out so you will have to let me know what it says. so now i don't know whats going on. any way i better go. I just wanted to let you know i was ok and healthy
Love Elder Marshall 

Steven's Letter on May 25

Dear family
I got the letters you sent.  I think the dear elder is the best way to send me mail.  It was good to hear from all of you. I got the email too.  I havent used any money at all.  It looks like you were up pretty late. The week has flown by pretty fast.  We are being kept pretty busy.  I am studying mostly out of preach my gospel.  We go over the lessons constantly.  i am also studying the questions of the soul a lot.  They are on page 107.  I found out that zera pulsipher is in one of the books from the missionary library.  He is in Our Heritage.  I think thats the name that kandace and i looked for when we were in Nauvoo.  I have a lot of reading in that book too.  Elder Fjerstad and I have spent a lot of time in the referance center.  Thats a place here at the mtc where we make calls and recieve calls from people who want free book of mormons or dvd's when they see comercialls on TV or on the radio.  I have had a couple neet teaching experiences there now.  I have gotten to send out book of mormons and have even been able to get people to recieve the missionaries.  Im working with a lady from back east right now. I get to call her again tomorrow night to see if she will let the missionaries come over and teach her.  The four of us got our travel plans a couple days ago. We leave a week from tomorrow at 4 in the morning. Only 8 more days and i'll be in arkansas. I can't believe how fast the time is going here. I hope everything is going good there. That movie dad made sounds like it was a lot of fun. It sounds like corey kinda got the raw end of the deal with Lysha painting her finger nails in our room.  O if you could thank a few people for me i would really appreciate it. Thank Bishop jenson for the hynm book that he gave me when i got baptized. I found out when i got here that you have to have one.  So most people had to by them.  Thank grandma for the set of scriptures. And i wanted to thank you for the missionary books that you gave me.  I have used them a lot.  Thank you so much for the letters.  I kinda know how the missionaries on the Best Two Years feel when they got their mail.  O i didn't use those ear phones that you found on the desk.  I had a pair.  i'm not sure how the case got there or where the ear phones are.  I got the letter you sent in the mail and the Dear Elder letter on the same day. I think it was on tuesday but im not sure.  Tell Rebecca and kaitlyn thankyou for their letters.  I am using kaitlyns book mark in my Our Heritage book.  Tell her thanks for the picture to.  well my time is just about up so i better send this before it kicks me off.  I hope to hear from all of you soon. 
Love Elder Marshall

Hello from the Marshalls

Dear Family,
So i hope you get this e-mail.
This week has been a pretty intense week. My companion's name is elder Fjerstad.  He's a pretty nice guy and we have been working hard to learn how to teach the gospel.  our classes are about 3 hours long each and we usually have 3 of those and then a two hour class later at night.  we wake up at 6 and are in class by 7 and are usually back to our rooms by about 9:30.  Elder fjerstad has been having problems adjusting to the schedual.  I think he is used to having more sleep at night.  I haven't had to big of a problem though.  I think im getting a lot more sleep now than i am when i was up at byui.  There are a lot of people here that i know. Joe redman is here still.  Josh still has 4 more weeks to go.  He was pretty upset when he found out that i would be leaving the mtc before he would be.  Zack Lee is here.  He lived 2 doors down from me when i was living at biddulph.  Now he lives right next door and is in my zone so i see him every day.  He got here the week before me so he has two more weeks to go.  Kyle hogan is here too.  He was in the rotc program with me and i did a couple double dates with him last semester. he lived on the second floor at bidulph.  carlie is here to. She was allyssa's room mate up at byui.  She is going to texas and got here the same day i did.  I thought there would be a lot more free time while we were here but we cram as much into each day as we can.  Even today, P day, its a full day. We only have 30 minutes for letter writing letters on email and then the computer kicks us off.  we also do all of our laundry today and anything else we need to do to be ready for next week. I think i've worked more this weekend than i ever have before on a weekend.  Even sunday was full of meatings and studying.  and saturday was just a regular day at the mtc.  There are 4 of us that are going to Arkansas together. besides Elder Fjerstad and i, Elder Baren and Elder Steed are also going.  All of us are in the same room. I hope every thing is going good at home.  Monday is the only day we can do any writing. and its the only day the computers will let us read emails. so if you want to tell me something before monday, you will have to send the letter in the mail.
                                                             Love Elder Marshall

We have been quite busy. We got Steven off to the MTC. He was excited to go up until it was time for him to go one way and the rest of us go the other way. It was a little hard on us all.

May 9 was also prom for Lysha. She had a good time.

Last night we had a orchestra concert. Lysha and Kaitlyn both played in it.