Happy 4th of July

Mom, That's great you are all planning on spending the night at the cabin and celebrating the 4th. I think it's weird someone is trying to set Loafer on fire. So Katelyn & Justin are back from the honeymoon and back to real life. That's good they can get back to work and be ready to start school. So Mom I don't want anything for my birthday!! It would be foolish of you if you were to send me a package. I would rather you just put money in my account. It would cost like 15 dollars to send a package then you would buy like candy to put inside and I don't really need any candy at all nor a box that I will throw away along with the candy! So please don't worry about sending me anything. Even a Birthday card thay are like 3 or 4 bucks just for a card. Just save the 3 dollars haha. From now on I have decided I am not going to buy those things, I gotta save all the money I can get!! Anyways I have everything I need so no worries :) No more teenage years for me :( I just can't believe that it was a year ago that we went up to the cabin for our Birthday party. I don't even know where the year went. Oh boy did it go by fast. That is great Parker will be joining young mens soon. Has Parker been doing anything else this summer besides baseball? Hahaha Parker doesn't have time to write me back, It's summer what's going on??? No if I were his age I wouldn't want to write either so I guess I don't blame him. Thanks for all the pics of Justin & Kate the looked beautiful and the temple! Wow!! I can't believe Kate is married. Parker looked good in his baseball pictures and Capri is always cute. That is awesome the Taylor & Riley have been out 1 year. They are good boys! So for my year mark I am going to celebrate it by doing missionary work! pretty cool eh? I don't think you could have a better celebration than that haha. I don't know maybe I will even treat myself to a cheap Mexican dinner hahaha. All I eat is Rice, Rice and Rice with the Filipino's. So I am now used to eating rice with every meal instead of potato's. You wouldn't believe the stuff I have eaten. I have eaten chicken feet, can you imagine what that would taste like. It was so chewey but I just bit off the cartlidge around the bones on the chicken feet. I have eaten pig ears and all sorts of fish. So basically they eat everthing on the animals, they don't waste a thing. It's cool though to experience new things and eat weird stuff. Well is sounds like y'all are doing well. I am doing so great and I couldn't ask for anything else. We are going to have a great week this week. We are still preparing for Arrmando and Cythinia to be baptized on July 21st so I hope they will be ready. Welp I love you all so much, Thanks for all the support and for all you do. Keep up the good work. Are you still getting up and working out and staying active? I hope so, I hope dad is doing well and I can't wait to go to the temple with him again. Ta ta for now!! Elder Swenson