well first to reply to dad- it is awesome to hear from you! your letter was a huge help to me! i enjoy written letters so much! i finally understand what you have been telling me all these years about it hahah. i seriously miss the runs and hikes with you already. i pray every night that you will be able to go to work and have a good time or at least a decent day. i love you so much and miss you tons. keep the work outs up and update me whenever you have one that seemed really good! love you! (ill attach pictures at the end)

mom- so my companion is bracken snyder from orlando florida. my favorite meal is definitely when they have either papa johns or subway once a week. all the rest of the food is disgusting and makes me want to quit eating for the rest of my life hahaha. for easter we got to hear from elder ballard! it was sick! he was like 40 yards from me. but the food was awful and the rest of the day sucked lol. i pretty much cant even check or see your emails until friday which is hard but i am not supposed to check them until then so... i have class, study, or teaching like every minute of every day though so not much time to think about stuff. and thank you for that scripture.

Mom & Dad- so that package came yesterday. it made my entire week. i was so happy. thank you so much. i am going to start sending actual letters too so expect those. i had to get a shot yesterday that i guess we missed doing before i came and my arm is destroyed and it cost seventy dollars or something. anyway thank you so much for the letter, rocks, jacket and everything else! means so much! just a reminder, socks (like the blue and grey ones we got at khols) and ties are always needed! thank you so much for all that.

I love both of you mom and dad! tell the girls and everyone else!