I saw the pics that ryan sent to me. wow she has alot of hair. looks like a baby to with that. she looks cute, congratulations on your baby. so your goin to have a b-day party sat. that will be cool. the wedding was good too. and with the new baby, grandma hicks not changing her sounds normal. funny. what are you goin to give jake? some jordans. i tried to buy shoes today but i didnt have enough money. i need to get one pair of shoes to walk with so i can
keep my eccos longer and things will be nicer. well have a great week, mom sydney the baby born while i was chillin with a sydney here in brasil crazy huh. well see ya later or on the flip side
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have a good week with no sleep. ya it is hard im so tired to. i think i will
go and take a nap for a bit.

hey family,
how is life after the wedding. now graduation from schools and the summer break- schools out. so i got a good story about schools from last week. we are going to try and help a little bit with some english classes here, so we went to a school to talk to a lady about service with english. but then we got talking and we might try to teach some type of religion class at the school on sat. for like 4 saturdays. dont know, we will have to see how it goes. but that was very interesting.
well the wedding past by now i hope it went well. things are probably calming down there a little bit. here we are teaching some really cool people. one guy named osvaldo, we marked a goal for baptism with him 19 of june. and others. we need to find more people to teach now though.
funny story. monday we were at a family night with a less ative member and other member. but they say with an egg you cant crack it by grabbing the ends between two fingers. i have tried this many times and it is true you cant break it. well we were joking about critospher columbus and some egg story about him finding the americas and about how an egg cant break or something. well i grabbed the egg and was joking and had it between my thumb and pointer finger with the ends. everyone said be careful it will break. but i know that it wouldn´t. but oh ya it broke on my lap. with a litle force the egg broke. all over my lap and my book of mormon. it sucked and everyone was laughing. you can break eggs. many other funny things happend this week.
it is good being with elder eastman. he is helping me out a lot with alot of things. he has one year here next week. i need to speak better port. and im going to study alot harder now. i need to. well that is the funny stuff of the week. lets see what else. the candy was way good, thanks for that mom. i wrote so many letters last week. anybody talk about me at the wedding? also is brad´s julie really getting married? that is funny. dont know what else. next package mom could you send some peanut butter. just put it in a bag if that is easier to mail. i will give some to some members. the members are really cool here. well that is it. thanks for all the prayers always and i wish the best for all of you there. im way tired. well see you guys later- love you all.
elder hicks

hey i was thinking that jake´s b-day is on sat the 21. i was right. wow, so is he walking now? last sunday me and my comp went to a 1 year olds b-day party. the people took of pic of us with him. it was funny. so your going to make a car cake. that will be nice. the wedding went well too. sounds good. life a little calmer now for you guys. how is it in the house, good? well not to much time today. thanks for the email and have a great b-day party on sat. see ya alisa
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tell this little girl to come already- hey thurs. 5-5-5 wow what a cool birhtday. and it is doug´s year mark crazy huh. Doug my friend. Sund. we are goin to talk, you are proabably really nervous but it will be fine. wow a new little girl. send some cool pics. maybe ill hear her cry on the phone. well a great week. i learned alot about faith. but im short on time today. let me know what he is like. my comp is 27, he is alot older from the amazons or the jungle, really smart, but only a member of the church for 3 years, he goes home next week, he walks really fast, we walk really fast. he never has talked on the road- that has been really hard for me- and also he never has really helped me out alot with alot of things- i have done it all on my own- this is one of my problems you cant do it alone you have to do it with the savoir- did you know that? i rely on myself, no faith. hey but he doesnt speak english just port. so i understand and speak well now and he sometimes helps me understand. today im in sao paulo because he had to go to a propertual education fund meeting- that fund. so im here but it is cool. hey also he is nice, loving, alot of difference and i used to get reaally better soemtimes, and it hurt me. alot, not talking really alot, i got mad, and sad, but oh well. but im friends with the elders in my house, one elder e. hudson i have been here the whole time with him, so we are tight. we wakeboards too. we always talk. he has helped me out alot. he is form manuas-
justins mission baptism was awesome- this lady is really special, a lady that was jsut waiting for us to find her, jsut that. we taught a lesson to some one else yesterday with her and she is so cool, she has a daughter with down syndrome that is 23 and other kids, she was catolic kinda, you know that cathilis worship saints right and mary- ten commandments- you know the jw cant give blood, christ gave his blood, easy things to see what is true or not. but people think that the cathlic church was teh first churhc and the only, alot for cathilics here, i cant write today. just be there sunday and not the hospital, promise that for me alright. talk to you on sunday- love ya and best of luck to you ryan and lindsey with the baby. see ya
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