Hey Family!

Hola Familia,

Hey! How´s everything going? Great I hope. Thanks for the emails, Like always, I can´t get enough! I love hearing about your lives and everything that´s going on! It´s good to hear that you´re doing great!

Ok, I´ve just got to get this off my chest once and for all... I went and bought some kimchi! I was so excited, and it tastes pretty good! The cockroaches just LOVE that smell for some reason... I wonder why. haha jk.

Dad, it sounds like you had a really successful show, i´m really glad that everything went well. I love that even in the hard times if we put Christ first, everything else just works! I feel like I haven´t done that enough lately, and i´m trying to figure out how to come closer to him, and really come to know him. Thanks for the email! I can´t believe BYU got torn up by FSU! Do they just get too prideful?

Christopher, thanks a ton for the email. I´m really excited you got to see Jesse speak! Isn´t he awesome? I loved my patriarchal blessing, it taught me a lot and still does. If you feel like you should get it, GET IT! Pay the price before though, and be SURE you´re full of the spirit. Prepare for it in advance, read your scriptures with sincerity, fast, and do all that, it will make it such an awesome experience. Keep being an awesome kid, just know I love you so much!

Tanner, hey buddy! It sounds like you´re doing so well in school! 3.8! I can´t believe it! Tell Mr. Panee you´ve got to get your grade up and make it a 4.0! haha I remember the good old days with Mr. Panee. Does he still count the wasted time and make you pay it back? I remember sitting by Curtis Mitton and we looked at eachother and couldn´t stop laughing when we were supposed to be quiet! Oops! haha Keep being good, I love you so much.

Mom, I´ve been thinking about you a lot lately, and all of the sacrifice you´ve made in your life for others... I just wanted to say thanks. You´re such an incredible example of putting others first, and just LOVING them, and not worrying about yourself. I´m trying SOO hard to follow your incredible example of CHARITY. It´s not easy, and the more I try the more I realize how awesome you are. Thank you so much.

It´s been a definite challenge for me, trying to be on top of EVERYTHING this past change. There have been so many things that have really tried and tested me, and I just hope and pray to my Heavenly Father that i´ve done what he would have me do. We´ve been working hard, and even though our numbers don´t look too hot, I know that really that isn´t what matters the most.

Like i´ve always said, the Lord will try us before giving us a blessing. I had 2 awesome tender mercies of the lord this weekend, and It just helped me to remember he´s here for me! He´s helping me and guiding me.

I was doing a baptismal interview, and the little boy I was interviewing said, ´I WANT YOU TO BAPTIZE ME!¨ haha I told him, ¨you don´t even know me! areyou sure?¨ He said yes! and I told him to talk to his family and then let me know. SUre enough on Saturday I baptized him! This was just a little tender mercy of the lord. Even though I didn´t do too muchto prepare him, I just felt happy.

On sunday we had 7 investigators in church! Can you believe that? It reminds me of the Boca days, where we were SO blessed. The blessings are always there if´you´re doing what you can, it doesn´t matter where you are.

I love you all so much and miss you like crazy!! Have an awesome week,i´ll see ya soon!

Elder Melville