Hey mom love you lots. I am doing really well, hopefully everything is going better back home. Thank you so much for your package, that was exactly what i needed. My mission is going really well, it is really flying by, the longer i am here the more i love it. spanish is starting to come around its still slow but i can speak a lot better and am starting to understand better as well. We had to teach our first lesson in spanish yesterday, which was good but a little crazy. The guy was asking if everyone had the priestood, and we were trying to explain that it is the power to act in gods name, so he was asking if it was the same thing as keeping the commandments, but it was really hard to understand him, so i have a bad habit of saying yes anytime they start rambling off and i have no idea what they are talking about. so he asked if every one had the priesthood and i said yes, which i knew was wrong because right when i said it his eyebrows went up, so i had him repeat the question like 3 times, so ya that was crazy, but eventually i was able to understand what he was looking for and answer him. They say make as many mistakes as you can while your in the mtc so i guess it is good in a strange way. Last night was awesome cause i got to hear from Elder Hinkley who it the son of Gordon B Hinkely. He just talked about always being cheerful and having a postive attitude. It was a really good talk. I cant believe i ve already been here for over a month time is flying by. I am loving it here. There isnt any really exciting stories to say you pretty much do the same thing everyday in the MTC but I am learning so much and am really excited to get out in the mission field. I am also a little scared about the language but i am working really hard so i know the lord will help me. my testimony is getting a lot stronger. i thought it was pretty strong when i left and i think it was but it has gotten so much more so, i guess that what happens when you study the gospel everyday for 6 hours. jk. So ya its really good i love both of my teachers, i have a little mexican and a really nice girl. The mexican guy is so hillarious, our class room was really messy so when he walked in he was like this place stinks like mexico everyone in the class was like rolling on the ground. It may not sound funny but it was hilarous, but I guess you had to have been there or I ve been in the MTC for too long lol. also he says jolly rancher so funny, holly rrrancher. So ya he is awesome. My branch pres is pretty cool, kindof an interesting guy but really nice. My disticit is cool, they kindof mess around a little too much but hey what can you do, I just do my thing and don't really worry about what they do. So ya I love you lots, and thanks again for everything. My companion is a pretty cool guy, he is a little interesting sometimes but he is nice and really patient which are two things i need to work on so ya it works out well. today in the temple i did inititories