Hey Family!!!

Hey fam thanks for all of your emails, you guys are the best and super happy that you all had a wonderful week and that Payton had a wonderful b day.  And that you got to go to the ice capades.  How awesome, I still remember when I went and got my geeny for Aladdin.  And hope that Branik and Payton will remember those memories like I still do.  HAPPY B DAY TAMMIE THIS 17, CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT IT HAS BEEN TWO YEARS SINCE WE ALL SLEPT AT THE HOUSE TOGETHER AND GOT UP AND I WAS SO NERVOUS AND COULDNT EVEN EAT BREAKFAST JUST SAT ON THE COUCH AND THOUGHT MAN WHAT AM I EVEN GONNA BE DOING TOMORROW.  I cant even lie now I was so nervous that morning, wow.  But hope tamm that all goes well for you this week.  HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU.  This is my last week as a missionary because the next week I will be visiting all my converts and people that I got to know and then my interview with pres tyler, and so until this saturday I will be knocking doors and stuff like that.  But hope to be able to work hard this week, but this last week was super super super dissappointing for us.  Williams mom didnt give us permission for his baptism, but I feel good about it because we testified to her and everything but she just wouldnt listen and so it is now between her and the Lord.  And then the laws down here are super wierd.... and so Abraham and Victoria couldnt get married this week and man that all happened in one day and so we just kept going and we are knocking alot of doors in a new part of the sector where all the cows are and stuff like that and we are having alot of success. and so we will try and put more people with date this week so Elder Sagastume can baptize next change.  He has been an awesome companion , truely a good friend and a good guy.  We are alot alike.  And I have made some awesome friends in the mission.  I remember that Tory told me that that would happen and have had some awesome companions and an awesome mission.  Elder Noriega will be a super good friend for life and I have to mention Elder Wright from Pheonix, he is the man.  I will miss the mission and this work, but hey it continues on, just because I dont have a badge doesnt mean I cant preach the Gospel.  And I have alot to learn still in life.  One thing that I have learned on my mission is to love the scriptures, I love reading the scriptures now, I am so excited to get my english scriptures all marked up .  And I have tried to follow my Savior every step of the way, even though I havent been perfect, I have tried to make Him proud and work hard for Him.  There is no other church like His church on the face of this earth.  A lot of false doctrine is taught in the world and man satan has a good grasp down here, it is sad.  do you guys realize how blessed we are that we can worship how we want without anyone bothering us.  I can not wait to feel the peaceful feeling of Utah and just read my scriptures and go to church on sundays and not have to have people yelling at us in the street, calling us names, and telling us that we are just drug trafficers and thinking that we are the worst people on earth.  It is just like with Joseph Smith, when he said that the persecution was rough, well it is bad down here too.  But I am so grateful for the challenge and here I am with a even stronger testimony than ever.  Just never forget how blessed we are to live where we do and to have been born into this Gospel.  Well I love you all so much, pray for us this week that all will go well and that we will have success.  And next week at this time mom and dad will be all packing up and I will be excited to see ya mom.  Dad have a good week of work, because you will get your vacation soon.  love you all, hope you have a good b day tammie.  HAPPY ST. PATRICKS DAY.