wow coach of the year! so when are the universities going to startoffering you big bucks to coach for them? thats awsome. i am so glad that dad is doing alot of missionary work. i have been praying for him to have sucess. and when members want to help out the missionaries here, it makes me very happy.
have you found any cool stories about our ancestors? my companions mom sends him personal histories of family members sometimes. it sounds very interesting. send me some short stories about our ancestors if you find any.
things are good here. we had 10 investigators at church yesturday. that one lady that i told you we were going to baptise, fransisca, we taught her and here husband about parental responsibilities, hoping that we could get him to marry her, and set a good example for their kids. he went off about all the problems that theve had, and she tried to read the book of mormon while he was talking, trying to ignore him. we reminded them that if they decide to follow the example of christ,and decide to have a happy marrige, they can do it, but they cant keep living together and fighting all the time. it just gave me so much respect for bissops and leaders better than i. but we are going to baptise her. she has a strong testimony.
also our investigator carlos should be getting baptised. he has been a homosexual for his whole life, but hes comited to live gospel standards and hes been active in the church for 2 months. hes given us a few refrences, and hes doing missionary work. it is realy cool to se the change that has hapened in him. im learning alot. im still not a good patient, loving teacher who can listen to the investigator and tie what they say perfectly into the gospel, like my companion is but at least people can understand my spanish now.
abinadi was a great missionary, iven if he got transfured before he could baptise his convert, but i could learn alot from him.
good luck selling the house. i love you mom. cant wait to talk to you on mothers day.
elder lariviere

hey mom. i bought a camera today. it seems like its a realy good one. its a cannon 550. and with a 1 gb card it was only 200 dollars. im pretty excited to use it i just need to be realy carful and make sure that i dont brake this one.
we went and played socar today and ate at the members house. it was fun. elder garcia, an elder that played profesionaly before his mission is way good. i got realy competitive and checked my companion into a wall. but its okay because i scored 4 points.
francisca, the lady who wants to get baptised realy bad but her husband and her still arnt married. we did a family home evning with her whole family last night. they loved it. and when her girls fought during the prayer, the dad explained, with love why we need to be reverent during prayes. it was cool, because we havnt seen him lovingly discipline his children before. this month its free to get married by the state so we realy hope that we can help them this week. we are also going to baptise elfiga this week. shes a 40 year old widow. shes realy cool too. we were going to baptise here about a month ago but she got scared. its for sure this time though.
life is good here. i got the picrure that you sent me last time. next week when i have pictures on my camera, ill send you a few. i think it takes a lot of time to send pictures from here.
tell dan to write me and tell me about his new job. im curious. love you mom elder lariviere

next p day ill look at cameras if we get the chance. we just got back from the beach. we played socar for a long time and i am tired and sunburt but it was so much fun.
the only mexican that lived in our house was tranfured to be a zone leader and now we have 4 gringos in the same house. my companion and i are going to try to to speak more spanish in the streets. we had a good week. i think we are going to get some of our investigators married this week of next. we taught them tithing and the sister wanted to start paying. her esposo when we firts met him didnt trust us and didnt realy want to talk to us but we have been teaching him too and hes changed so much.
also diego, the first person that we baptised, hes 9 and his mom isnt a member. weve been teaching her and i think we can baptise her soon also. the work is going good. the other day, i contacted a guy and i said somthing about christ and he said he didnt beleive in that stuff. i bore my testimony about christ and he said we had somthing, but he didnt know what. so were going to visit him soon here.
i miss swiming and competing. i havnt been able to run at all since my runing partener left and i cant even talk any one into playing socar in the mornings. but im getting good at jump roping.
i cant wait to see the house. when are they going to finnish? send pictures when they do.
general confrence was so cool. elder badnars talk on sunday was awsome. and elder uctdorf is realy cool too. his accent was way better this time also.
the new apostle seems very powerful as well. we should get letters tonight. our zone leaders just gor back from the mission home.
its starting to get hot here.
love you mom. cant wait to talk to you in a little over a month.
has dad received the letters that i sent him? love you mom. bye eleder lariviere

my computer logged out in the middle of my email and now i dont have much time to write you. but im proud of your track and fgeild accomplishments and i wish i could have seen you. and swimming too. i want to swim realy bad. my running partener got transured so i dont know if ill be able to run much any more. but im still going to work out. hey should i buy a digital camera down here? my camera stopped working and i dont know if its fixable. would it bee a good idea for me to buy one down here or would it be better for you to fed ex it to me. im here with my trainer for another transur. thats rare for us to be together this long but it should be good. i think we will have lots of succes.
zone confrences are good here. our president is a realy good speaker and we get good training. love you mom. bye