01-03-11 To Mom:
Haha yeah I have been reading the BOM like mad haha. I really do want to make this challenge real and I know that it is possible cuz dad did it and now you can and you can start reading it in Spanish and get your spanish great again so we can have secret conversations with dad hahahahahaha. I cant wait :)~(: whatever that means. Well this week was great. We had a great first Sunday of the year -the most people I have seen in our tiny ward. It was amazing and I got to confirm the little kid I baptized - it was sweet and it was just a good week and I am happy that you get to see Shayanna and Steven. I wish I could be there to see the cute little kid but oh well - another year really isn't that long but I cant wait to be an uncle haha. It's great. How do you feel now that you and dad are going to be grandparents hahaha? I bet that is kind of a shock huh? Well I got to get going now but I love you with all my heart mom and I wish I could just give you a huge hug right now but oh well -another 16 months :() bye mom

To Dad:
Well - it is on then dad haha. I am reading a lot but I really do want to complete that challenge of six times read and I know that it will be such a huge blessing for me and my spanish. Well this week was good and a little long but Sunday was amazing. I had the opportunity to comfirm the kid that I baptized so it was good. And then the testimony meeting was way spiritual and me and my comp both shared ours. I didnt even get nervous at all and i just had the thought for half a second to share it and i just walked right up without even thinking about it but i was glad that i did do it. Well that is all I got that I can remember for now but I hope you and mom can keep up with me on the reading hahahaha. I love that book. now I wish I would have read it a lot more when I was home. Well I got to go now. I love you dad and I told mom that I wish I could give her a hug and I would love to do the same for you and just thank you for being such a good example for me and keeping me on the good path mostly and I know that I have slipped a lot but I am glad for yours and mom's support. It really showed me how much you actually love me. Well got to go. Love you. adios dad

12-27-10 To Mom:

Haha that's what dad talked to me about as well and thank you but I don't want to get me into trouble in the mission. But I thank you for all the advice that you all give me on my mission so I don't get into trouble haha. But I will also be working on getting better and I am praying on getting better cuz I know that I can not do it on my own. But I still know that satan is going to try and hurt all of us cuz he wants to be miserable, like it says in 2 Nephi 2:27 but I will do my best to not let that get me down. And congrats on being in the RS again haha. It is where you are meant to be haha. Well I got to get going soon and I think we covered just about everything on Saturday when we talked except that I did baptize a kid and it was awesome. I loved it. I was excited but that is all that was different and thanks again for your support mom. I love you so much. Well adios mi mama

To Dad:

Thank you very much dad. I figured you were going to send me something to help me out and I promise I will do my best. And I know that Satan knows me as well and I will not let him win but thank you again. And I know that I still have forever to go on my mission but I also know that it will fly by so fast and I will be home before you know it - as long as I am focused it will go faster I think haha. Well it was great to be able to talk to you on Christmas and I hope you all enjoyed skyping with Marshall. We found out yesterday that like 4 members have skype haha and that we would have been able to use it. Oh well life goes on right? Well the baptism went great last night. I was way excited to be able to perform the baptism. I will send the pics with this email. Well after I got done talking to you we went to a member house and they loaded us up with stuff cuz they wanted to be Santa for the missionaries, so they were haha. Well it was a good Christmas away from home. I loved it. Well I got to get going now. Love you a ton and thanks for everything again. adios dad

Still in Dallas...

12-20-10 TO DAD

Haha nice dad. I have been checking the mail a lot haha. Now I know why it didn't come lol. No biggy. Well I don't know if I told you I gave my first blessing in Spanish a couple of weeks ago. It was awesome. I am so glad for the spirit to guide us when we need it. And yeah, me and Marshall are going to figure things out Cmas Eve, so don't worry. You will talk to your sons. Well this month we haven't done service yet but there can always be an opportunity right? Well I am really excited to talk to yall. Got to get going now dad. Te quiero mucho adios

TO MOM

It's all good but don't send the (box) to the office no more. Send them to 9755 Scyene Road # 2119, Dallas, TX 75227 because there are problems with the forwarding as of now so just send them to my apt ok? Well this week was alright again. And just another thing - can you send me another memory card cuz I only have one right now and it is getting full. But yeah, so we might call or we might skype. We don't know yet but we are still working on it still, but me and Marshall are going to call and set something up ok so we can talk as a family. Well this week we are going to have a baptism this Sunday which is way sweet. He is a nine year old kid but he knows his stuff already. Well that is crazy to know that Garin is back. Time is flying so fast. Marshall is at 18 months; I am almost at 8! O my gosh it's loco. Well I figured you would be put in the RS sooner or later, but I guess that is just where you are needed haha. Well, got to get running as well. Talk to yall on Saturday. Can't wait. bye mom love you too (no i didn't get transfered thank goodness haha and thanks for being such an amazing mother)

Catching up again...again...

12-13-10 To Mom

Well thank you very much (got some money). That will help me alot, and mom, can you get (cousin) Austin's email for me so I can tell him congrats. Well, that is sweet that you are already making all those good treats and if you can you know your son Elder Ricobueno loves mommy's caramels :) Well this week we went to the temple and it was amazing. I love that place; it is so great to know that there is a place to get away from everything. Well that is odd that you are once again sick and I know you told me not to say it haha. Well I am your son and I love you :)))))))) big grin. Well, really other than the temple nothing much really happened here. Oh nevermind - last night we went to a choir thing and they did really good. I can not remember the name of the choir but they were amazing. Well right now I am chatting with my brother Marshall. This is the first time that has happened haha! Well I am excited for Christmas and I bet you are all as well and I can't wait to talk to all of you and I was wondering what Steven and Shayanna are doing for Christmas cuz I do want to talk to her as well so I can talk to my whole family and me and Marshall are going to call each other so we will be able to talk :) Well I got to get going mom. I love you a ton. Have a great week and get better :) love you

tu hijo, son, little big boy, elder ricobueno

To Dad

Well it is about the same temp here or colder(50 degrees). It is really cold here and I don't know why, and no I have not sent them (broken shoes) back. Do I have to pay to send them back? I don't know. I have never done this before. Sorry but I will send them back and I would love to talk to yall as long as I can as well. Oh and another thing - what is your number and the house number cuz I don't know but I do know your skype thingy and we will see if any members have skype. But yup, this week was great. We had a training and we went to the temple again, LOVE IT. It's an amazing place and I can't wait until after the mission to go a lot more than now. But yeah, I will probably call Marshall cuz I don't know if I will be getting transfrered cuz it is four days before Christmas so I guess we will have to see. Well I got to get going soon. Can't wait to talk to yall especially en espanol haha. Well I love you. I hope you all have a great week and stay warm. Oh and another thing I just remembered. I gave my first blessing in Spanish. It was an amazing experience para mi. I was a little nervous but it went away when I started the blessing. Well bye bye again. love you

Catching up again...

12-06-10 to Dad

Well we watched that last night as well (The First Presidency Devotional). It was really good. I love listening to the prophet speak especially about the savior because whenever someone is speaking about the savior you can feel the spirit and when the prophet is speaking you know that he receives direct revelation from God about the things he says, so i love it :) And I was thinking about if you could set up a time for me and Marshall to call at the same time cuz he is only one hour ahead of me and Ii am 2 ahead of you, but I would really love to talk to my whole family at the same time and I can't wait to talk to you and mom in Spanish but I will warn you because I have been in a mostly English area - my Spanish isn't at the full capacity it could be but it is really good for being in an English area jaja but I guess you will just have to see about that and I will let you be the judge. Well this last week has been getting really cold. This morning at about 11 it was 35 degrees so it is getting there but then again you are way up north and I bet it is way cold up there huh. Well this week we are planning on going to the temple on Wednesday so I am super pumped; I love going and just sitting in the celestial room. It is just the most spiritual place to go and especially when things are getting tough in the mission you just need to get away from the world and what better place to go than the temple right and we are also having a training on Friday so this week should be pretty good and fast. Well as far as updates in the mission me and my comp are teaching 3 great families and 2 of them we have committed to baptism and they said they would but one of the families is going on a vacation so it will have to be later than we expected but it's all good. Well nothin really exciting happened this week; well we did fix a flat tire for someone that was stranded on the road so I am glad that I knew how to do that haha. Well got to go paps. Love you. Have a great week.

To Mom

Well speaking of food, I was wondering if you could get the recipe for bisquits and gravy haha cuz I miss that lol. Well I am glad that Miles and Jordan are having fun and getting ready to go on their missions. I think it will be good for them. I think that Miles is going to go to the Mexico City Mission haha. That's just what I think lol and Jordan is going to go to the Dallas Texas Mission :) Well I justed looked on google maps and found out that the house is less than a mile from church. That is pretty cool and only 15 minutes or 4 miles from the temple in a straight shot anyways haha. Well we did actually have a service thing this week - we were on our way to get some food and we saw someone with a blown up tire and they had the worst car jack in the world and like a half hour into trying to get the car up someone stopped and let us use her jack and we fixed it in like 2 minutes. It was cool and it made me feel good helping someone. Well I was just remembering something from last year and remember when dad got a GPS for Marshall? Well I think that would be an awesome birthday gift because sometimes we do get lost haha. And another thing if you could send a bit of money for laundry cuz every week I spend about 5 dollars on laundry so if that is a possibility that would be a great blessing especially since I don't have a lot of money. Well I told Dad that we are going to go to the temple again and I can't wait. That is like my favorite place to go and I can't wait after the mission cuz we live so close that I want to go like once every 2 weeks. I love it. It is such a spiritual place. Well I got to get running now. Love you mommy. Can't wait to talk to y'all on Christmas. adios

Thanksgiving Week

Well it sounds like yall had fun over there in the cold. It was cold down here as well. It was like this Monday 70; Tuesday 70; Turkey day was like 45-50 - it just dropped so cold that day but I guess that I can't complain, huh? Oh well. I guess I just got used to the heat here. Well I did get the shoes from the office on Tuesday and they are really nice. Thank you very much; and another elder that is going home soon said that he will give me his shoes when he leaves so I think that I am going to be good for a while. Well this week for Thanksgiving we were at a member's house and after dessert we were helping him try and kill squirrels that built a nest in his pecan tree and they gave me a pitch fork to throw at the squirrels and I missed. Ii was so close; the member was just laughing the whole time because the squirrel jumped out of the tree and almost hit me in the face. And we had the best ribs I have ever had; he cooked them for 9 hours and the meat was so tender and it tasted great. Well this week was a little slow for us because of the holidays but it was good. We found a couple of great people to teach. Another cool experience that we had was with the stake president and the mission president. We were in a meeting for 6 1/2 hours and the majority of the time we were just talking about Lehi's dream and how it is tied into temples. It was so spiritual and amazing. We all learned so much. I thought that my head was going to explode because of all the info pouring into my head. Well that was about it for this week. I hope you all enjoyed turkey day with the whole family. Just one more turkey day for me away from home :) Well got to get going now. I love you. Have a great week. adios

Fun Week

Well this week was fun we had 7 people at church and the 3 most solid ones were out of town so we would have had TEN at church that would have been so cool but i am hoping and praying that they will all be able to make it next week, well the mission right now has over 200 baptismal dates, INSANE huh we were told that the only way that we can achieve the goal of 950 we need to set dates with all of our investigators that are progressing so that is what we are doing me and my comp have four dates but are planning on having a lot more in the near future i am just worried about being tranfered the next transfers because there are a lot of great families that dont have dates yet and i dont know if the will be ready by the 21 of december so i am hoping to stay here in this area for 7 1/2 moths of mi mision and i dont want to get transfered 4 days before christmas no seria bien para mi jaja pero si el senor me necesita en un otro area que bueno :) well that was pretty much the highlight of this week and ill let you read the letter to dad because it is in your email and its in spanish jaja well i got to get going now mommy i love you muchisimo adios

Well i have not gotten the shoes yet, which carrier did you use because if it is not usps they cant forward it to me and if that is the case i have to wait until the ZLS go to zone leader counsil but i will get them eventually jaja, and yeah i am a bit bummed about turkey day just cuz i know that moms food cant be beat to me but its no biggy , and another pregunta lo que tango es piensen que pudieran darme poquito dinero por causa de lavandaria y yo ne tengo dinero hacerla pero si pueden seria bien, pero gracias por los zapatos va a ayudarme mucho aqui, pues como dos dias atras mi companero y yo estabamos andando en nuestros bicis y vimos dos hombres descansando en su camineta entonces hablamos con ellos y dijeron "ustedes son mormones" y dijimos si y dijeron no querremos escuchar a ustedes no mas pero hablamos sobre el libro de mormon y porque lo tenemos, y la importancia de profetas apostales en estos tiempos y ellos estaban como quisas este es bueno para nosotros entonces mi companero y yo totalmenti cambiado sus mentes sobre los mormones fue un experiencia muy suave, el espiritu fue en la presencia de nosotros muy fuerte. pues tengo que ir mi padre hablare contigo en el proximo semana adios te amo mucho