Dad i totally got your text!!!! That really made my day. No joke! I had the hugest grin for the rest of the day. Thank you! I hope you guys had an awesome Thanksgiving! We did over here. We went to the store and got a rotissery chicken and made mashed potatoes and gravy and bought doritos nacho cheese. We even made crystal light. We were way stuff. It wasn´t anything like when it´s at home...but we were pretty proud of ourselves for that meal. We both ate so much. Got super stuffed then took a huge nap. Just like at home haha. But ya it was pretty rad. Ya things are going pretty good here. Unfortunately we only had 2 invertigators in church yesterday. But it´s cool cause we´re going to work that family. They´re working to get their papers really quick. We also have this lady who knows everything and is ready. She just has to feel ready. But she´ll get baptized next transfer so whoever stays get a baptism.I´m doing great. Getting bigger cause i´m working out and eating lots of spaghetti. Trying to get back to normal from when i left for the MTC. But unfortunately we wash our clothes in this bucket thing that spins the water. And we hang our clothes to dry but it´s way cool cause i only wear pants. The new garments are SOOOOOOOOOO white!!! Like celestial white compared to everything else haha. Our clothes get all yellow cause it´s just dusty here all the time. But i´m enjoying my time here. Trying to stay positive about things and love everything. But i love you guys so much. I can´t wait to be home for the holiday season next year. I´m going all out! It´s going to awesome. But hey i love you guys so much and miss you. Oh i still have peanut butter and nutella. Just like pictures and memorable stuff like that would be awesome. I have a stocking so i don´t need a new one. Can´t wait to call you guys in a month! Bye Bye :)

Rub the cranberry sauce on my face. It will make me look like a savage. It will match our living conditions here in the DR haha! Ya it doesn´t feel like winter here. It´s hot, humid, and NOT WINTER!! Me and my comp have been talking about it lately...thanksgiving and christmas need to be cold. Or it´s not real. Oh about the tie i was wearing....well due to the fact that we all have to look the same...dark pants, dark shoes, a tie....the tie is the only type of individuality we have. So i have acquired some pretty ugly ties from my friends that have gone home. I gotta stay fly right? Haha i have some pretty stanky ties up in here. Oh ya...i got your package!!! Thank you SOOO much! So much candy! Haha so those garments are so long! But it´s ok cause i only wear pants here. But when i get back i´m going to buy the 30 short. Haha but thank you SOOO much for the envelopes. I´ve been using these weird dominican envelopes that are ridiculously large and so not cool. So these are perfect. Dang you guys be safe in the snow ya hear? That´s sketchy stuff. Mom remember that one time where i got caught in that blizzard? Haha that was hilarious. You had to pick me up at the top of the hill. But things are going great here. We got 7 in church yesterday. That´s a record for this area. We found a whole family that wants to get baptized when they get married. So we´re working with them. We have a baptism planned for the 4th so that´ll be way cool. I´m healthy and getting fatter which is good right? Don´t wanna be too skinny huh? Haha but i miss you guys SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much. And my love is bigger then that for you guys. It´s going to be rough this christmas season but we´ll do. Just being away from you guys will be a struggle. But with prayer and the work here we´ll try to keep busy and not freak out and eat our feelings in butter and sugar haha!! Just imagine! I love you guys. Stay safe!

´d like to start my email of by telling Amber HAPPY BIRTHDAY! 29 that´s really crazy how old we all are getting. But news from the mish...we got two baptisms on sunday. Baptized a lady and her 8 year son. It was pretty rad. Good sunday. And that night we put another baptism date with this girl that´s 20 years old. She has gone to our church a couple times since she´s been little. So that´s way cool. Ya she likes how this gospel focuses on families and all that good stuff. So we put it on the 4th of next month. Right before the end of the transfer. We are excited for that. We´re doing a lot of contacts to try to find new people. The only people that get baptized are the refferals we get. Hmm shocking huh? NOT! Things are going way with me. I´ve noticed that i´m getting too skinny so i´m going to start drinking this spaghetti shake that i hear makes you huge haha. I´ll come back all huge and you won´t recognize me muhaha!!! When i study i study in spanish. Right now i´m reading my bible in english to become familiar with all the cool stuff of th bible. But i study out of my libro de mormón every day. I hardly ever open up my english set. It´s pretty dope. Wow it´s snowing there? That´s crazy...all it is here is hot and humid. But things are going way good and i´m healthy. I really love you guys and i hope you guys stay safe. Make sure the boys don´t cause all of your hairs to turn gray haha. Tell the whole family that i miss you guys and that i love you guys so much. Oh ya Mom and Dad. I´ve put a lot of thought into it. And yes i would like for you guys to come here and pick me up after the mission. We could go through the temple and go visit my old areas. That´d be way cool. So yes come :) I´m sending pictures of my baptism and me and my comp rockin out in the house lol.

Hello family. Ya if you want to put money in the packages that´d help with the whole them taking out money situation. But it´s not too big of a deal. Today i bought this sweet back. It has a picture of this little peruvian home in the mountains. Haha that´s the only interesting thing that has happened to us here. Just working hard and trying to get help from the members in this ward. It´s hard. We need to get references from them to get success. Contacts don´t work too well. It´s kinda frustrating. But we´re working on that. But me and my comp are doing good. We get along great so that´s always good. Cause there´s lots of people that don´t get along and that´s way hard. But tell nick that the mission is way cooler then anything he could do back at home. I don´t regret coming out here one bit. Sure it´s hard at times but that´s the cool thing about it. It´s helping me so much. I know so much more about the gospel it´s crazy. I really enjoy studying about new stuff. We have this book that´s helping us understand the bible more so me and my comp are studying the bible. In english so we fully understand. But ya things are going way good here. Not going to lie...i miss american girls haha. Not that i´m focusing on that or anything...cough cough. But hey i love you guys so much. Stay safe. Peace from the hoodlum in the DR :)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!! Wow mike it sounds like your really good at that game. Probably way better then me. I stink at computer games haha...and video games too. Things are going way good here. We just found a mexican restaurant to eat at.....om goodness it was SOOO good. They even had hot sauce. We went with my friend Elder Valdez from mexico. It´s now my favorite place to eat at lol. I´m not going to waste my time with burger king or mcdonalds. Those are good...but super expensive. But wow it sounds lik you guys had a good Hallowen. They don´t even celebrate that holiday here. Such a bummer. But some missionaries went trick-or-treating haha they are our friends....turds lol. Ya they came send me a package. In three weeks we´ll have recieved money twice and i´m starting to save my money by eating cheaper so i´ll have saved up some cash by then. So it´s cool. Becca you got into a crash? Did your insurance go up or anything? Lets hope not. Speaking of....how is my insurance now-a-days? But ya we have 4 investigators that are going to get baptized this transfer. We´re working on finding more pèople. But things are going way good here. I´m healthy and happy. We´re working hard and life is great. But i love you guys like a dominican loves rice....aka more then you can imagine lol!! Be safe!