Sent: 12/2/2009 5:50:25 A.M. Pacific Standard Time
Subj: Hola


Querida mamá!

I didn't get an email from you this week but i though i would just drop you a line. Lifes good here, im part of the older group now which is really wierd! Its been a really fun week and today we get to go on a tour around the city and actually shop for things like jackets and such! I sent another letter to you guys i hope you get it soon. In it i mentioned if you are already sending a package to the mission home you might want to throw in some shampoo-head and shoulders- deoderant-speed stick:ocean surf- and triple A batteries for my camera-im taking a lot of fotos for you! Also, once i leave the CCM i cant send you letters using American stamps so i kinda need international stamps to keep writing. If your not sending anything don't worry im sure i can find them in the city. just letting you know bc the less shopping i have to do the less stress.

The other thing in the letter is instructions pertaining to the Wagners. I reiterate them here just in case you cant read my hand writing: one of my teachers back in provo MTC was Israel Rosales. He mentioned that he knew some people from the mormon colonies in chihuahua, mexico and i asked him if he knew the wagners, and he said which ones and i said kevin, then hes like you know kevin! and i said ya he is in my stake back home. Any way i want to know if Kevin remembers him. hermano rosales is from Mexico City, so please ask them for me!

As just a last note, at this point any responses to letters you send you may want to just send to my mission home so it doesn´t get here after i leave. My head still hurts all the time because of how much language i am taking in daily, but i do enjoy spanish, one of the coolest parts of spanish is the himnos-hymns! they dont all directly translate but several of the spanish versions i like better! one example is that in the song called to serve, there is a line in the spanish version that doesn't exist in the english version: listo, siempre listo; anyway its kinda a motto around here you will have to check with dad to get the translation. I really want you guys to continue to read eachothers emails because i never get everything i mean to say into one, and just because it address it to one doesn't mean its not for the others eyes. As an example i shared a scripture in dads that hit me very powerfully this week that i want you to read as well.

I love you more than words can express, and grow to appreciate you more everyday of the mission. I miss the ability to just be able to call you when ever i feel like it or at least write an email to you any day of the week. But i am so grateful to be here and be trusted as a representative of Christ. The only girl in our district got pretty sick this week and they made her go home last night at least until she is better. anyway, i saw the way it tore her up to leave because she wanted to be here and was loving being a missionary. I know this is a once in a lifetime oppurtunity and i dont want to waste it. i love you Mom and want to thank you for the way you have raised me.

Love,
Elder Spencer Fogleman
Your Grateful Son