hello family, how is everyone? i hope everything is going awsomely awsome. i am doing great, this last week went by so fast but is was very interesting and exciting. firstoff, i got your package on my b-day, how cool, and i love all the goodies. i love the ties and the magnet words, everynight i sit in front of the fridge and try and make up frases. the blueberries are awsome, i use them with my cereal. and the YOGA kit, i don´t know if i will use it because my comp will propably think i´m a weirdo, but thankyou.i used the bike tie and everyone loved it. this week we baptized a senhora named Edna. she is so sweet spirited and good hearted and she was so excited to be babtized, she told us how glad she was that we came to her front door and helped her find this joy and happiness that she had been missing in her life. i felt so happy and uplifted afterwards. i was talking to my comp the other day and i was telling him how in my entire life i have never felt this way. i have never felt so tired yet energized and ready to work, i have never felt so hated and rejected yet so loved. i have never felt so lonley and sad yet so cared for and happy. every night that we return to our house i don´t feel EXAUSTED but EXAULTED for this wonderful amazing work that i am able to do. (just kidding i feel really exausted) my birthday was awsome, after p-day ended at 6 we went out to teach, and to my surprise a bunch of the members had planned a party with cake. it was so cool, i hadn´t expected anything. well that was my week. hey brandon and curtis your trip sounded awsome, send me some pics. hey and how is my favorite little sister, i havn´t recieved any inspiring words of sidon from her in a while. well i love all of you so much and thank you for everything. oh and HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMMY, i love you. Elder Tafoya