We got our first email from Elder Smith yesterday :)  We were all very excited!  He is doing great!  His companion is Elder Crossley from Roy, Utah.  He is going to Chile, in fact there are 11 Elders in Josh's district (turns out saying Elder Smith every time is just too long!) 7 of them are going to Chile, the other 4 are off to El Salvador.  Josh really likes his companion who is a big help with Spanish.  He said it is really neat learning a language and they are teaching someone who doesn't speak English so he is learning quickly.  The language teacher served a mission in Argentina and they are only allowed to speak in Spanish during class which takes up a large portion of the day.
Elder Nelson gave a devotional at MTC on Tuesday which was a great experience.  Fun fact...... One of Josh's roommates is named Elder Barlow who is related to Israel Barlow and turns out to be a very distant relative to our family because Mikes Dad is also related to Israel Barlow.  Cool huh!
the sad news is David Archuleta left the MTC the day before Josh got there, dang it!!!!  :)  I'm sure I will recover from this!  Ending on a good note, Josh sees Chanelle Solorio a lot :)  strange isn't it that two kids from a small town in Newburgh, Indiana end up in the MTC at the same time.  Even stranger is that out of 2000 missionaries they see each other everyday.  Well that is all the news from us today.  Very excited that Elder Smith is so happy!