reading your letters always make me happy and give me animo. my companion has less time then me and is from california, and so we are both learning spanish. but my new area is in the stake of mirador. its awsome. it used to be 2 areas but they closed one, so we have a huge area, and the past few missionaries wernt hard workers so there are alot of people prepared, waiting for us. the members are awsome. so many of them ore converts of 2 or 3 years that share the gospel with every one. my companion was a swimmer. a spriter. we get along and work hard together. i even got him to run with me in the mornings.we found this cool family that came to church, they were waiting for us when we passed for them. that is the first time that has happened, usualy we have to wake them up. we are going to put a baptismal date this week. we are excited, and this dad named jaun, his whole family is baptised except him and hes getting baptiesed saturday.things are great here. keep me updated on the olimpics. we should go in 4 years.love you mom.