Lovers,

Quit Using Dearelder okay? I swear I told you that you could e-mail back now that I'm no longer in the MTC haha ;p as you know from past e-mails, the johnson farm was very cool. and mom, you were wrong, It wasn't because of the holiday you didn't get an e-mail, it was because we were up in Hiram all day long doing stuff so we didn't have the opportunity to e-mail. nice try! hahaha :P I can't believe Jordyn is learning to write! give her a big ole' kiss for me haha I'm so happy that she is enjoying soccer and what not. that's so cool haha

This last week was crazy, we had over ten hours of tracting and we taught around 11 lessons, this week on the other hand isn't going to be as good because we only have four days that we can prosalyte (however it's spelled) in our area because of meetings and exchanges, so we'll see what happens haha. I'm so stoked for you guys to actually get tree's in the front yard! it's progress haha. that's good, maybe it will be done when I get home. I mean it better be because if not... well lets just not go there haha. I can't believe you got talked in to being the room mother! ah hahahaha that's so funny!

I'm glad to hear that Joel has moved out, hopefully that will be good for him and he will be able to improve and such, that's great. and Jayme! way to go girl! that's mad props, next time make him go up there! haha ;P (now, now, don't get mad, I'm only playing. you know I love you!)

Now Ammon, I'm glad you are reading your scriptures, just remember as you read you need to understand what is going on or your study is in vain... Just saying. ha That's more than what I did. I didn't start really reading till the end of my Jr. year for a couple of months and then all of my senior year. It's definitely worth it so keep at it man, you know what's up! ha

can you see me becoming weirder in my e-mails? be honest!!! I sure hope I'm not! I plan on coming home with the same type of personality I had when I left, Maybe even better, but not weirder haha! that would be a total downer. no joke.

So they had me talk in church on sunday. it was the first time I didn't write it down word for word, so I was a little nervous, but luckily for me the branch only had 30-40 people there so I did good and I spoke for 20 Minutes... where did that come from? haha

Anyways. Mission life, well we are thinking about dropping rick, or only going to see him once a week or less because he isn't progressing and he doesn't really seem like he want's to. Elder Hernandez was cool with what I said to him. He kind of just lets me say what I need to say because he isn't the greatest at being bold. Somtimes I have to take control of the lesson too because he gets distracted with the kids really easily and can go off on tangents. oh man, speaking of this. we went to talk to this guy who is investigating that we haven't talked to since before i got here and we brought a member who talked to him for and hour and a half before we could say a single word! it was horrid! I had to tell the member i was going to cut him off and ask the investigator if he still wants to be baptized and we found out that he had be anti'd because some how he found out about the mountain meadows massacre, I mean really? how do you find out about that unless you are really digging or someone gives you anti material.

Oh yeah, Adam, I forgot to tell you in your e-mail, you have mad props with all that work. and make sure you do it good because when I get home I'm planning on doing the whole year mixed with work thing too. so be good at it so i can come get advice from you! haha it's definitely worth all of it.

So my birthday is this saturday right? I would sure hope that you wouldn't forget, because that would be freaking lame. so along with all of the other things you are sending me... (:P) if you could send me a GPS cause we have a hard time finding places sometimes.... I would be eternally grateful (greatful? man I can't spell) and also two long sleeved shirts. one of them we got was a 17 with 32-33 instead of 34-35. so yeah. that would be awesome. so I love you, don't forget how much I love you, every single one of you! ;) So if anyone else is interested in sending something, cause I know it's your hearts desire. My adress is:

1810 Winston Dr.

St. Marys, OH 45885

So don't forget how much I love all of you, hahaha but yeah. I think this is it. so have a good week, I know I will.

Love Michael!