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Hey family!

Happy new year.. new years here was pretty good. lame part was that we had to go in early to be safe. there wasn't any fireworks either becuase its all illegal here. so that was kinda wierd. i'm used to all the chinese red firecrakers. but it was cool... on new years eve there was this family moving out of the apartments we live in, so we just started helping um carry stuff. they are a way sweet family super funny! kus they would always be chilling outside the apartment and they would see us walking and they would just joke around. they would always tell us eh.. what are you guys doing, take the tie off and go rest, you need a break, don't worry we won't tell your bosses or anything, just take a break haha. so they would always joke and we would joke back. we were pretty good neighboor friends. so it was pretty sweet that we could help um out. it was fun we did two trips. they moved to a house down a couple blocks and so we would load up the u-haul and then ride our bikes to the new house and meet um there to unload. Actually, thinking about it... this whole week was full of service. Because we helped carmen out with her yard. the one i told you about last tuesday. shoot, i even brought the camera to send some pictures but i left the cord haha, close..

Anyways, Oh i got to tell you about this one night. we went on exchanges. i went to with the english elders because they teach a couple hawaiians and so they asked me to come. it was some good stuff. the funny thing was right before that we went and ate some mexican food kus we were hungry and haven't taken dinner and i was full after that but come to find out the appointment with the hawaiian family was dinner too. i was like ahh no, but they brought out the food and it was rice with hawaiian stew and spam.. oh, man it was the bomb. i even got two plates. so even though i've been living mexican pretty much two years... still got the hawaiian side going haha, i always got some extra room for the Hawaiian grinds.

we had a couple cool experiences too on the street lastweek. Well we stopped by this one brother's house who we caroled too and we started talking to him about our message a little more and it was cool because he told us how this new year he set a goal to grow closer to God and so i thought sweet, well what better way to get closer to God than reading the Book of Mormon since it's another testament of Jesus christ. so we invited him to read it and testified how it will change his life. it was cool because it just was a simple conversation. we stopped by a ton of other families and we have alot of potentials to start teaching, so we are super stoked. it's gonna be pretty crazy. so we are starting the new year pretty good.

hopefully everything is good over there too. love you guys alot and talk to you next week

Elder Thomas