8/2 email

Hey Momma!
Yeah i got your package and thanks so much, haha it was amazing i was sooo pumped. Thanks for remembering all the other stuff i needed too it was perfect. Haha yes i love my new winnie the pooh its pretty dang amazing to have it. And jess thanks for the madd hatter back. And mom the shoes fit perfectly! Thank you so much they fit so much better than the other 2 pairs i had did. They are the perfect size for my feet, thanks.

haha i'm not getting that buff, but there is quite a bit of difference when i am working out everyday you know? haha i kinda love it hard. Haha really you think i am no longer looking like baby bobo and now i'm a man?! I remember thinking the same thing when i saw pictures of joel from his missions,it made me sad but don't worry, i'm still the same haha. I am just being blessed with the spirit which is changing me in only better ways.

Yeah i have made some really amazing friends here mom i love it. Especially Elder grandy, simmons, smith, and sheperd. They are amazing and i know i'll be in contact with them for the rest of my life. Haha holy cow we have so much fun here with those elders it is a blast. i'm done with the mtc in a week! How cool is that? Wow i have no idea where the time went, it feels like i just got here a week ago. I am so dang ready to get going to New York!!!! I'm still the only spanish speaking elder going there, there are 4 other english speakers that are going there the same time as me, but i'll never be with them during my mission so i haven't really tried to get to close with those elders, and they are kinda different... haha.

Alrighty for my travel plans and my new address. My address for my entire mission will be the New York Rochest Mission home address in my mission call packet so look for that in there, i don't remember it. My mission presidetn is Jack R. Christianson. So this monday at 710 am i fly out of salt lake, to the chicago airport. And i have a 3 hour layover there so i will have plenty of time to call!! It says i get there at 11 10 but i'm not sure what time that is in arizona, so just expect a call and please answer your phone! And then i fly to rochester from chicago, and i am going to be in New York at 5! Pretty sweet right?, i am so dang pumped.

Tell Megan too about my layover, because i'll get a chance to call her too, so let her know today so she is pumped! Nope i don't need anything else before i head out but thanks for asking, i am going to be sending home though a big box of letters i want to keep, but weigh too much so i can't take them with me.

thanks mom so much for this awesome letter, i'm glad you will still have a job and a class next year that is a huge blessing. Ok so about this week, i got a new companion so now i am in a threesome. His name is Elder Wall and he is really cool, he is from texas, and he is with us because he has some thyroid problems and can't got out in to the mission field till those are fixed. So when does school start for all you noobs out there, how is peanut? i love him hahah and you guys too of course. I'm so pumped to get going the mtc food here is terrible! I have lost about 5-7 pounds i am in the 180s now and i love it. Soccer still rocks, oh and tell joel gene r cook was here last week he would have loved it. I'm really excited and ready to go but for sure i am going to be missing some of the life long friends i have made here. I am still talking spanish like crazy every day, i am to the point now where i can teach about every lesson, and most other principles too. Its awesome, i'm not saying i know all spanish, but i have really been blessed with this language. It is so much fun to speak, and make fun of the new elders with who have now idea what we are saying haha its great. Wait till drew and i are doing this all the time at home. Alright everyone i lover you so much sorry i don't have any amazing stories this week, it was just another great week at the mtc and i am getting ready and pumped to enter the missionfield. Keep me in your prayers, i am pumped and have faith it'll be awesome, but i won't mind the extra help. For fhe go over the story of abinadi in mosiah 12-17 he was an amazing missionary and i want to be just like him when i get in the field. I love you guys so much, and my new favorite spanish word is panqueque, (pancake!).

Love,
Elder Ingram