sorry Im not there to take care of you while you are sick

Hi Mom,

That is too bad that I am not there to take care of you while you are sick. I hope you feel better soon. Thanks for getting those books together I was talking with my companion and the Mexicans(Spanish Elders) and I thought that it would be good to start reading.
Renan and Kris visited you? Aw, I am so jealous. Tell them Hi for me when they come over. Renan lost 40 lbs that is awesome, I knew he could do it. I still can't gain any weight out here, and I get fed a lot. Mostly by Mexicans and Patty Mitchall.

This past week I have been giving a lot of blessings to people who are not having good health. A lot of the members in the ward get sick or need to have surgery for something. So I spend a lot of time at the hospital.

Transfer calls were this past Saturday, it was like Christmas except worse. It turns out that Elder Graham is leaving to go down south to a place called Naples and the rest of us are staying here in Tampa 1. yea!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will miss Elder Graham a lot. He is from Hawaii, so when my two years are up we need to go visit him, OK? he he. Anyway I am happy that I am staying so that I can keep working with the people that I have gotten to know.

I am getting better and better at this mission stuff as the weeks pass by. I always thought of a mission as a strict time where you just teach and tract like robots and somehow have fun. It is totally different. It is not fun all the time just like life always is but we learn to have fun in our own silly ways. Yesterday and this morning I got into wrestling matches with Elder Welch and Elder Graham. I never laughed so hard in my life, because they know that I am very ticklish. Times like that are so much fun on the mission.

I am having a very good time here and we have baptized and mainly helped people learn how to be as happy as you ever could be. I love it. Thanks for your emails and love. I will send pictures in my next email of all the fun times I have been having. I love you Mom.

-Elder Spencer Larson

p.s. Give Renan a good smack for me OK? and say hi to Liz and the rest of my friends if you see them.