patabéms mãe!!!!!
i knew you could do it! that is so awesome you made it the whole way and in 7 hours that is awesome!!! mom i think you are in better shape than i am. i told the people i am teaching that you were racing your bike. they couldnt hardly believe it. no one here would do that they said haha. that is way cool though mom. so my birthday was good. it was funny i felt old on my birthday. haha i think i slept wrong and my back was sore the whole day haha i thought to myself yep i am officially an old fart now haha. it was good though we worked all day and ate our pizza at night. o i did get all of your guyses letters the week before so that was cool, all the birthday cards. this week was a good one though that family that we are working with went to church sunday and loved it. they have pretty much adopted us haha so now they have ten kids instead of eight haha. we are working with them a lot thought. i think they are gonna decide to be baptized. sunday during testimony meeting the lady Neusa that we baptized last week got up and bore her testimony. it was so awesome!!! we visit them a lot still, their one little girl writes new music and then sings it to us. haha she is really good. i will sent a video of her next week. we have been working hard this week. o and i didnt get transfered and my companion didnt either. i think this will be my last here though but who knows haha. but things are great, hot!!!! but great. i am healthy and workin hard. i got to run though mom and dad love you guys.

hey mom and dad
sounds like you guys have been way busy. that is cool that saint clairs sister made it there and had a good time. did you tell her i was in manaus? and what did she say? sometimes i dont even believe i am here haha. alot is going on there this time of year. i cant beleive it has been two years since i graduated. i heard from colton and randi that they all had a good time there. colton is crazy haha i love that kid. so i am way excited for your bike ride you have to be sure to tell me how it was. and dont wory mom you are gonna do fine. so i am real close to being officially old haha twenty on friday i cant beleive it. we are gonna buy two large pizzas friday night and just pig out haha. i went to the center today and bought my self a birthday present a new tie haha you would be proud though it is black and dark pink it is way cool though. this week was good though. our three baptisms went really good and they are so exited about being a member of the church. when you guys come here i am bringing you two to hear this little girl sing. she makes all of her own songs and they are really good. we have been working our butts off this week. we have found some really cool families. we are teaching this family with eight kids! it is a weird situation, the parents are separated but live in the same house just one gets the top floor and the other gets the first floor cuz they live in this old like appartment place. so your son is now a marrige counselor haha. but this family is so cool the only problem is the separated parents. we found another family too this week they are very humble. just to give you an idea the husband and wife work from 6 in the morning to 8 at night in a store and make about 6 dollars a day each. they are way cool though they want something more in their lives so they asked for sundays off so they can start going to church. i am way excited about them and know this is what they need. we have been teaching a lot of people and are helping a young man that is addicted to cocaine so we are really busy. this week is the last week of the transfer so who knows i could be in a different place next week but i think both of us will stay here for one more transfer. this area is tough to live in but i want to stay here at least one more transfer. the city is having problems so or house only has water early in the morning and late at night so we have been struggling with that but it is all working out. we have lots of drnking water so thats all we need. but i got to run i will talk to you guys next week and will be praying for ya on you bike ride mom. you will do great love you guys

hey mom and dad
six months how crazy is that!!! i almost cant believe i have been out for that long! i get to burn one of my ties the nineth. so it sounds like a lot is going on there in good old panaca. that is way cool the things they are doing in grandpas name. it just goes to show how important of man he was. i think that is a good person for the scholarship i love that kid. i dont know what taylor and logan are gonna do with out him next year haha. its crazy to see these kids growing up! I AM OLD!!! haha taylor will be a senior so crazy!!! i lose track of the time of year here i think its because here only has two seasons hot and hotter. they say september is cruel here. that is the time of year that i will be the closest spot on earth to the sun so crazy!!! that is cool to hear about all the other missionaries haha do you know what all the missionaries here call the missions in the US? Paradice haha cars, food that is healthy, air conditioning, ect... haha. o it hit a new record in our house 100 haha sooooo hot!!!! but in this hot i have mannaged to catch a cold so i have been fighting with that this week but this week has been good. we have three baptisms saturday a single mom Neusa and her two daughters sabrinia and loraina. it is the family i was telling you about with the girl that can play the guitar and sing too. they are way cool. they love us! neusa said to us the other day that she is going to talk to sombody at church so that she can feed us lunch one day haha she is way cool and her testimony is growing so fast. they all love to learn about the gospel. i will let you know next week how the baptism went. i am making cake for it haha. we are working really hard though here i get home at night and just crash! by the time p day comes around we are dragging our nuckles on the ground haha. but anyway i got to run. send my love to everyone o and i got my package and aunt valindas letters thank you guys so much!! love you all

hey mom and dad
so crazy week this week we had an emergency transfer because a missionary got his visa this week and arrived yesterday. so the crazy thigs is my comp got tranfered to portavelho so i got a new comp and have to teach him the area that i have been in for two weeks. haha. but we worked yesterday and i have no clue how i knew where to go but i did. we didnt get lost once and found two new families to teach. so i am pretty sure the lord new about this transfer about two weeks ago and made it so i could learn the area fast because there is no way i could have done it on my own. i only got a little bit of time today to write though so this is gonna be real short. but it was really good hearing from you and you don't have to wory about me being trunky i have too much on my hands here haha. my comp is from são paulo, his name is elder lopes, he is way cool. he is way excited to work here so we are good to do work in this area. there hasnt been a baptism here in six months. but i got to go i love you guys alot. o and where are you going to stay in são paulo? talk to you next week love ya

hey mom and dad
only a few more days!!! how crazy is that? after this only two more calls home. it is seriously going by so fast! can you believe next month is six months for me?! and i will be 20 so crazy! sounds like everything is going good there just be careful on your bike mom and dad try to keep her out of the traffic haha. this week was good. my companion is excited agian now that i am here so we are working everyday. it is way cool the Lord is blessing him with so muh strength. and because of ou efforts the Lord is placing people in front of us. we went to church and this family that my companion didn't know was there so we talked to them. the dad has been a member but in active and the rest of the family aren't members but the wife was unpacking a boxes, cuz they just moved into the area, and saw a book of mormon and asked if the husbnd was a member of this church and then dicided to go to church and now we are teaching them. they are way excited and progressing way fast so amazing how the Lord works. then i have a story you that just blew me away. remember that guy from my first transfer that had an addiction to drugs and was gonna try to kill hiself but then my companion said that to him and he shook our hand the next day. well, that first transfer he moved away. so, we were looking for this house of one of our contacts yesterday and we couldnt find it so we were walking up this road in our area and i hear some one say my name and was like what no one knows me in this area then that same guy came over to me that we helped in my first area and told me he has changed his life and got his wife back and showed me his new car. he was way exited to show me it. so we were talking and he said that he moved to this area and then asked if we could come share our message with him and his wife saturday. I was totally blown away! tell me that is a coincidence and i will call you a lier! that is the Lord workng in his way and time so amazing!!! so this area is good i am liking it. we do have to stay in the house a little still but it has given me some good study time. i am half way done with the book of mormon in english and am through matthew in the bible in portugeuse. i cant beleive how much more i get out of thee scriptures here. so things are going good here. i thought i was in the getto my first transfer but i think i was just shell shocked. haha but remember when i told you about those houses on stilts? thats what alot of my area is. o and something cool about my area is that part of it is on the coast of Rio Negro (negro river) it is way cool but they have some places to fish there so it is torture to see people fising haha. but i got to go i will call sunday afternoon to give you the number to call. i wll try to time it where you aren't in church but i don't know if you have church in the morning or in the afternoon but if you dont answer i will call later and i will call your cell phone mom. talk to you guys sunday love ya