Last Sunday in the MTC!

Hi mom!! I know it is a very random time to be emailing, but I leave tomorrow at 5:30pm, but the bus leaves the MTC at 12:50!!  I am so excited!!  I have just been packing like crazy...luckily I remember how to pack it all like Sister Smith showed me!!  I can't believe the time has actually come that I am leaving.  I never thought this day would come, but one thing is that I am going to miss my district so much!!

The other night all of the elders in our district had a sleep over!!  All 8 of us slept in our room and we just brought our beds in!!  Hahaha it was so fun!!!

Lets see, lately I've been doing a lot of stuff just getting ready to leave--in field practices and stuff, and taking surveys about the MTC.  Class has been awesome!!  We talk to our teachers about their missions, ask questions and stuff.  It has been so fun!! It makes me so excited to get out into the field!! I can't believe that after this, the next time I send an email home I will be in the field!!!  How crazy is that? 

I loved the picture of you guys at church, by the way!!  You guys are awesome!!!  I hope that life is great at home!!  I just want you to know that I am doing good!!  Mom, I got your last letter.  So, thank you!  :-)  I love getting those so much!!  I hope you all know how much I love you and pray for you all!!  Keep working hard and having fun!!  I love you and will talk to you soon!  :-)

Oh and I should be back on tonight around 6:30 or so!! Just so you know:)

Hahaha I never sent you this picture... This was the first week, before we knew it rained a lot here and didn't have umbrellas with us!! hahaha!!!

5:11pm

Hi mom!! So, I sent you a long email earlier!! I hope your day has

gone well:)  I just printed my boarding pass!!!  I haven't weighed my bags yet!  I am still washing clothes and my sheets and stuff!!  Hahahaha  Yes, I am washing them!!!  I am sending a picture of my district and one more of me and my comp!

My District

Well I have to go! But, I love you so much and will talk to you soon:)

Week 5

Hello!!!!! How is everyone!? This week went by soooo fast!!! Now

I am on my last week here!! I am so excited to leave!!! I went to the

Mexico City temple again for my last time today!! It is so beautiful.

I wish you could all see it!! It is just hard to get pictures of it because of how close it is to the street and the streets are crazy here!!! But anyway the temple session was great!! It is crazy how much more of the Spanish I can understand now compared to my first week!! Thank you so much for my package!!! It was amazing. I loved all the letters, the food, and you guys literally sent me everything I needed!! Wow I miss you all so much...I have the best family in the world, then of course the best friends in the world too!!! So those two put together just make me the luckiest person ever!! It was awesome getting to see

Blake, his companion is awesome!!! So I know he is happy!! His p-day is Thursday! So if anyone gets this email that talks to his family you can tell them that!! Wow I cant believe this is my last week, the lessons are getting better and better! I am sooooo excited to teach the people in El Salvador!!!! I am glad to hear football is going good for my brothers! How is Riggs!? I hope he is doing tons better!!! Well I love you all so much!!! I will talk to you soon:)

elder baker

Week 4

Hi mom!!!! ...and everyone else!! :) How is everyone doing!? I hope you are all doing great!!! I miss you all tons!! This week was crazy here in Mexico. It's the week of the Mexican Independence Day and so all of Mexico was like a huge party!! They had this like big assembly with all this Mexican traditional stuff going on-- like dances and all this crazy stuff! Then on Sunday night we all went to the gym and did a Grito--which is when the president gets on TV and says stuff and after everything he says we yell viva!!! It was fun:) I am glad some of you got my letters, but I am excited for the rest of you to get them too!!! I

can't believe I only have two weeks left... and that I have been gone for a month!! It went by really fast!! Mom if you could do me a couple of favors...First, please send me plastic sheet covers! (but probably send them to El Salvador by now) and put my snowboard inside somewhere!!! haha I know its kinda random, but thanks!! This week went by super fast, our lessons with investigators went great!! One especially was super spiritual, I actually started crying during the lesson!!! I know I am a baby, but it was awesome!! I am excited to see Blake and get the stuff!!! So I will look for him:) I love you all!!!! Tell Riggs, Jace and Gage that I say hi and that the letter I sent you guys has a little something for them! Actually one of them might have been in the letter you got... anyway, I love and miss you all!!!!!

Week 3

Hi mom!!!! ...and everyone else!!! I am glad to hear everything is going so well at home!!!! I love how good my brothers are doing at football!!!! Tha is so awesome:) I love and miss you all sooooo much!!! Everything is very good here!!! We got our new native companions this week! One of them is from the Dominican Republic and one of them is from El Salvador, Santa Ana!!!!!! It is so awesome!! He knows my mission president and everything!!! So I talk to him about it all the time!!! Oh and yes, I can kinda talk to natives in Spanish now!! So my Español is coming along alright!!! I got to go through the Mexico City temple for the second time today!! It is so amazing... and I understood a little more of the Spanish session than I did last time!! Ok yes I can get packages!!! Ohhh...we never packed my white pants for baptizing. So I will need those some time!! Lets see... other things i want... jeez I really don't know!!! I am pretty good on food!! I love getting pictures!!!!! And letters!! So just keep sending those! As a matter of fact I got a letter from you today, mom!! I haven't read it yet but I am excited!! Ok and last thing... our branch is doing the musical number for the MTC devotional tonight!!! So I get to sing in front of the entire MTC in Spanish!!! haha so that is kinda cool. Well I love you all lots and miss you like crazy!!!

elder baker 

Week 2

‪‪Hi mom!!!! Oh gosh I love you so much and I miss you tons!!! The time is starting to fly here. I can't believe its already p-day again!!!!! The MTC is getting lots better. The language is still pretty hard but it gets a little better everyday!! The scriptures are literally my best friend!!!! I read them all of the time!!! I love you all so much! Mom I got your letter and the two pictures! I loved it:) It made me feel so comforted!! The pictures were awesome!! I am glad to hear everyone is doing good...except Riggs. :(  I am sorry he is so sick!! Make sure you tell him I love him and make sure he gets a blessing!!! Our native people we lived with left already... it sucked saying bye to them because they were awesome!! But, they only had to stay two weeks!! We started teaching a new investigator and that is all going good too! So as for stamps you can send U.S. or Mexican ones!! I sent out letters today so watch for those!! I hope everything is good in AZ! It rains like everyday here...like HEAVY rain for a long time!!! I am sosososo excited to get to El Salvador... the MTC is nice but the classes suck!!! Well, I love you all so so so much!!!! I miss you tons!!!  Keep sending emails they are awesome!!! Tell Fred, Haley, Jace, Riggs and Gage they are the best siblings in the world and tell Fred he will love the mission!!! He will be a great missionary!! I talk about all of you so much!!! Well I will talk to you later!!! love you!!!

elder baker