holy wow sounds like a hectic week. its ok that you didnt get a bunch of homemade stuff in i would have definately loved it but its understandable. we have hectic lives and when people ask us for extra stuff sometimes its dificult so i definately understand haha. im really excited for the pictures ha i love gettin them thats one of my favorite things! your not lame at all mom actually your exactly opposite i say this for many different reasons one of which being cuz you had the love for me to tell me no in things and to actually give me your oppinion. there are too many parents in the world that let there kids do terrible stuff and they dont care at all, they dont even say they think its bad they just let em do it... so Thank you! how awesome for the boys to be in band im so glad that they wamnt to to that kind of thing too, i thought i was to cool for all of that kind of stuff but really there are alot af really awewsome people that do that! about sebastian... that is sad that he dissappeared but who knows he was an odd cat he may show up but if he did pass on(i have no idea if this is doctrine) but he is family and families are forever haha so you may have to deal with the little grump later on again hahahaha. wow averys are leaving?!?! im sorry i know you and stephanie really got along. do you know how tyson is doin church wise like if he is plannin for a mission? i sure hope so he is a good kid! hmmmmm funny stories and my week... well im gonna be honest with ya i caught the flu... it whooped my butt, but didnt stop me. i dont have enough time to sleep all day and catch up haha but im better now. elder isom wrecked on his bike and that was pretty funny i wont lie cuz he was dinkin around and went to turn around and went straight over his handle bars haha. oh man speaking of which i will probably have to buy a new helmet the one i have cracked. my bike tipped over and my helmet was on the handle bars... strong helmet huh? oh so cool story about i guess enduring to the end is what im gonna call it lol i was not feelin good at all like i just threw up in the visitors center bathroom but we still had an hour and a hlaf left of the day and i told myself i wasnt goin back plus i felt like we needed to contact a referal we had. so we go over to this reaferal adn we had tried before but she wasnt home anyway we get there and it was a good 25 30 minute ride and we knocked and she was there! we talked to her, she had been to church at a different branch 2 weeks in a row but it wasnt ours and it was farther away and she had been walking cuz she doesnt have a car! our church is like 3 miles closer than the one she was goin to. so we set up an appointment and we talked to her and we got her a ride to church and she is just awesome! we have a lesson with her today and we are going to see if she will be baptized and i know she will but im just so excited for her!!! oh yeah and her name is gabriela. gosh she is so amazing!!! spanish book of mormon is good, and i actually saw elder scherbel last night! he is doin awesome! excercise is good i really wish we had some sort of gym tho cuz im not a big fan of just runnin especially when i get on a bike later ha. we play alot of soccer in the mornings too. OH YEAH LUPES MOM IS GETTING BAPTIZED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! im sooooooooooo excited on the 25th at 730 pm and josh her son that i baptized is baptising her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! gosh im so excited and her dad is getting close too!!!! so with the baptisms il tell you all and its ok if you write them i decided but i really really reallly dont want it to be about the number of people i just want to all to know thats not whats important to me the things that are important to me is like on june 5th 2012 the martinez family can be sealed in the temple for time and all eternity and that the people that get baptized are on that path. deal? deal. hmm the thing people struggle with the most, i dont really know just leavin their old traditions and customs behind i guess. i dont really know it varies alot. i gotta say if you werent sad and happy right now that im here then i would be a little upset. A. if you were happy i was gone that would stink. but B. if you were completely sad i was gone and wasnt home i would be sad because idk i guess i would realize that your testimony of the gospel wasnt real strong... so im glad your sad im gone but happy im here haha. well i hope all is well there which it sounds like it is, sounds like a party and alot of craziness but thats good. well i love you all too and miss you too but i wouldn't want to be anywhere but here. time is goin really fast and will just keep goin faster!
love you all
taylor
