well its good to hear that you liked your race. i love races. the feeling that i feel after a race i imagine is kind of like how it will feel to come home from the mission, or when we leave this world and see our heavenly father. trail running is cool. we hiked in this canyon today. its a realy popular place and tons of people were there running up or down the trail.how is stu doing?things are well here. this week, i contacted a guy in the street and put a cita with him, but we didnt have time to go visit him. then i contacted the same guy a few days latter and he told me that he was waiting for us when we said that we would visit him but we never showed up. so we visited him, and he came to church sunday. he realy liked it. im glad that i was given an opportunity to repent of not visiting him and that he is progressing well. the members in this area have given us alot of refrences. its cool. people are almost afraid to talk to us in the street and everything, but if a member presents their friends to us, its compleatly different. its cool. just hard to get members animated to give us more refrences. they called a new ward mission leader in our ward. he is a recent convert from 3 years ago and is realy excited to work with us. he said he could come to teach with us every day if we have citas that he can help with. he told us about his conversiohn story, he had huge problemas with the word of wisdom, and the missionaries came and brought him to a baptism, and he stoped drinking that day. it was cool.tell brother shaw that i got his letter. he told me some things that president watson said when i was set apart. it got me animated it was cool. i dont have many oportunities to respond to the letters that people send me, but im greatful for them. life is good. time is flying realy fast. thanks for the letter.love ben