The following are pieces of letters to Jake's sister and brother-in-law:

Me gusta la CCM (MTC en espanol) mucho. No aprendo espanol muy rapido. Me espanol es muy mal, no hablo mucho. haha.

That's all the Spanish you get for now. Hopefully I will be better in a few weeks. There is so much to learn and remember between Spanish and the Gospel. The MTC is fun but keeps getting harder. The helado makes up for it though :).

My companion left last Thursday after I had already sent my letters out. It is too bad he felt like he had to go, and I tried to talk him out of it...So now I have a new companion, Elder Snyder. He is awesome and we get along really well.

Elder Kartchner