Baptisms!!

Wow crazy email! So Patrick was telling me about the dinner and he said it was really awesome. He thinks very highly of Scott and Kari. He talked a lot about how it was good to see how a Mormon home should be and he mentioned multiple times about how good of parents they are and about how good her cooking is. He showed me a few pictures too! one of which Avery did not look very happy at all. It was really cool to have that work out though. I hope that he did strengthen their testimonies, he definitely does that to people and has definitely done that for me. he did mention that he wants to come out for conference so I said he should go with you guys and he said that would be great so we will see what happens with that. I will talk to him again later this week. and yes, if I am not still here for the baptism I will be able to attend.
That is really cool that the Panokes were at church! I cant believe that! that is really cool that they did that. they are really nice people. she would always feed us, we had a lot of fun there. they are definitely very energetic people, they are awesome. I asked her to feed us one more time before I left and we went over and she fed us spam sushi stuff and it was pretty good I guess. it was a stretch for me. I have actually had salmon a lot out here and I think I actually kind of like it now so I am sure that will be a surprise to you. yes there was a bike stealing incident but I didn't get anything stolen so don't worry about that. it was the other missionaries that got them stolen. I will tell the rest of the story when I get back. haha. I am sure they will be at my homecoming and wedding and everything they definitely would.
yes I did get the package. thanks so much for it and for the money! that was too nice. I really appreciate it. as for the missionary report letter deal, I think you can probably stop worrying about that. I pretty much communicate with all the friends I want to so that thing isn't really necessary. so you don't have to worry about sending it to me anymore. thanks for sending it so far though. and I am glad to hear the package got home safely. and quickly I guess. a member here gave us those books so I figured dad would like it.
Anyway, yes the baptism went very well! she was very ready to meet with the missionaries so it was pretty easy for us! the first time we met with her we said she could get baptized august 19th and she was like ok ill think about it, not too committed so we told her to pray about it and stuff and she said that like the next morning she woke up and was thinking about it and really felt that it was true so she just stuck with august 19th and never looked back. it was really cool. and I get to confirm her this Sunday so that's exciting.
Anyway, its all going pretty well. Still learning a ton, like you said. and its going really fast. I am really enjoying it though. our roommates are the french missionaries(in the picture). One of them is from Belgium, one from Utah, and I have been having a lot of fun with them lately.  I have been reading like the end of 3 Nephi and its been really awesome I have really enjoyed that part of the book of Mormon a lot.
I hope that you have a great week! love you!
Taylor