the pictures of the bike trip made my realy home sick. i wish i could have done it. thanks for the picture of the sign. that made my day. ill see if the mission president will give my my vacation time around the bike trip next year.things are well here. we baptised juan yesturday. his wife has been a member for a few months but he tried to avoid the church for a while and then finaly started going to church. and got baptised. we have a family home evening withe a family that we are teachinga and the bishiops family tonight. they are a cool family that we found my first week here and we have high hopes. and we have a bunch of other realy cool investigators. optomism and hard work are the secrets to happyness, we are tachng this one lady that smoked 2 packes of cigarets a day. we set daily gaols with her to quit in a week. the idea came into my head to tell her that every morning she should pray and tell heavenly father her goal, and ask for stregth, pray every time that she felt tempted and every night report to heavenly father how it went, giving thanks for the help and talking about what she can do better. i started doing that with my goals. not to quit smoking but with my goals. its a cool experienc telling heavenly father my goals and then reporting every night.well love you mom.ben