April 9th 2012 (Handwritten)

Hey MoM(?) & Dad,


Sorry my e-mail was so short. I did get all 3 packages. If that’s the right #. Thank you so much for all of it.
I’m pretty short on $ & food so that will help a ton.  I get fed pretty well here so food isn’t too big of a deal. I found like 8 boxes of macaroni so that will help also. We are on bikes now & I like it way better. It’s just more interesting. Harvey I think hates it. He complains about it all the time. I think it’s fun.


Nelson & Ngatu are in a quad!?!? That’s awesome! I haven’t written all of them yet. I haven’t gotten any
news about Tuxtla. I wonder why Nelson does. I’m going to try those towels out for sure. That will save
me a lot of space.


We played V-ball today, finally. Every morning we play B-ball, which I suck at, or soccer. It was really nice
to play V-ball.


I do know Elder Jarmin. He’s 6’8” if you didn’t know & played for BYU. It was pretty fun but there are
some sucky players here too.


Some funny things that happened this week, some kids wanted candy but we didn’t have any. (I do now
though, thanks!) So Blanc gave them Mormon.org cards. Then when we were leaving a girl came back
& asked for a card but we were out. Harvey had one sucker & gave it to her. I told her to hide it & then
told Blanc & Harvey they were all going to run back over when they saw it. I was right! They all started
chasing us, so we took off for the car. It was pretty fun.


Today we got groceries & as we were leaving a guy asked us for a $1. Harvey gave him one & I gave him
about a $1 in change. I guess his car was out of gas. While we were talking with him an old guy came
up to us & said “You want a real challenge?” Take a shot at a 73 yr. old vet of Vietnam! I fought for
separation of state & religion & then I moved here and it’s like another country!” All I said was “Well,
this man just asked for $ so we gave it to him & we’re just talking.” I think he felt kind of dumb because
of his expressions. He kept talking about it & talking down about us. The guy we were talking to kind of
defended us. The old guy finally left. The guy, Ken I think was his name, said he hated when guys twice
(3 almost 4 times) your age do that. He turned out to be a Jehovah’s Witness. He was a really nice guy.


I’m still writing in my journal a half a page to a page every night. Everything is going just fine. I love you
more than you’ll ever know! I don’t have much time left in this P-day so I better go grab some food & a
shower. Thanks again for everything!


I LOVE YOU!!!


Aaron


Also thank Monks for the B-day card & cookie! It was delicious!