i just got the absentee ballot and your package. thanks for every thing, ill try to set up the excursise equipment soon.my companion is new in the mission, or was born in the mission so im his dad.things are well. we are excited for general confrence, and if all goes well we should have a few baptisms between sesions. and we played socar today. we got lost coming home so we dont have much time. but we had a good week. we blessed the house of one lady, with the preisthood and she felt the spirit realy strong that was a cool experience. and all is well. love you, have to runben

i havnt heard of any one with food storage in mexico. good luck selling the house. how soes my landscaping look? and my painting? you know we are doing baldface when i get home right? and we are jumping in the pool?as a district leader i have to motivate other missionaries, give an hour and a half district class evert week, i have to report every ones numbers to the zone leaders, and thursday all the district leaders in the city went to the presidents house for a confrence. it was cool. they made us pancakes and eges and it got me realy motivated. i just need to learn to motivate others without making them mad, and hopfully stil being their friends. we went down town today, and i say my old companion. it was a realy happy experience and good to hear about how my area is doing after i left. im learning alot and i hope i can fulfil all my responsibilities.my "son" is doing well. hes learning alot. im trying to get him to talk in the lessons more so sometimes ill finish a principle and look at him. a few times hes started teaching about the plan of salvation when we were teaching about the restauracion. but i was alot worse when i was learning.we went to the temple 2 weeks ago. my first time in 9 months. it was realy cool. i felt alot better after.love you byeben

i should have brought my camera today. they made me a trainer. i have a kid. it was a crazy day. a few other missionaries in my zone are trainers as well. so we all went together. we got lost getting to the offices and got their late. my son is from chiwowa. its spelled differently but i dont know how. hes way cool. im realy excited. they made me district leader as well. i saw elder mikami my trainer who lives by the offices, elder jones who was my companion in the mtc and a bunch of other people that i hadnt seen in a long time. it was realy cool.a baptism that we had planed for yesturday, when he had problems with his family and couldt come to church. but after we visited him and it was a realy cool visit. i love when investigators have our confidence and they just open up and tell us what they are thinking. he told us about how his way of thinking has changed compleatly since we started visiting him. life is good. we are going to have succes.

well i just finished writing you a long letter and it got deleted. but thank you for the happy birthday. i cant beleive im 20. we had a good week, one investigator that was giving us excuses for 3 months about why he couldnt come to church finaly came and should get baptised sunday. and an area 70 came and talked. it was cool, he gave a great talk. thansfurs are next week. my zone leader thinks that ill be a trainer. well see. life is good, but im running out of time at the computer so i have to go. i still dont have the package, ill let you know when i get it. oh and im proud of sam for calling out his teacher. i should have done things like that so many times. way to go sam. love youben

have fun in vegas. there are lots of clean cool thigs to do. besides climbing and stuff, alot of the casinos have roller coasters. ive heard that they have realy good and inexpensive food at buffets and stuff. this week we played socar in the morning and then went to a sports store to by jersies for next week. they were selling the mexican olimpic team speedos and me and my companion who is a swimer as well bought some for when we get home. they are realy cool and i couldnt pass it up.we had a good week. we are working with a family of 5. they al want to get baptised but they work on sundays. they work in a huge outdoor market so all they have to do is sell their spot and start coming to church. maybee work a different day as well. it was cool, we put a baptismal date with the mom and she said that missionaries have pased by before but we must have been the ones preordained to do it. the date fell because her daughter who dosnt have kidneys, had to go to the hoispital and couldnt come to church. it was a special experience to hear that she beleives we were forordained to help them know th gospel. pray for them. pray that we will find more people that are prepared.love you momelder lariviere

tyler hufacer is living in wells? i didnt know that. i saw him once at school. what is matts bride like?are they similar? is dad a good dancer? im jelous of your time at the beach house. this morning we woke up early to go running with this cool member in a vally. valle in spanish i cant remember how to write it in english. we desended very steep on switch backs and we went down through clouds and we saw the rivierebelow us. it was realy pretty. running back up was hard. but i feel great, then he fed us.last week we found this cool family. the husband used to have word of wisdom problems, but he has compleatly stopped since we started visiting him. and the whole family is progressing. we hope to baptise them in 2 weeks. ill let you know how it goes.im reading the new testiment, and paul just confuses me. he dosnt make sence. im ready the bible dictionary as well to help me understand it. life is good. my companion and i live alone, but we get along well. i love you. hope all is wellben