March 16, 2:01 p.m. sorry i cant write a lot this week. its super hard to write. i got my wart cut out. they couldn’t just burn it or anything because it was so big haha and they said it would just come back unless i got it surgically removed. so yeah. it’s crazy. now i’m missing a whole bunch of skin, it was nasty. but this week was super good. we had tons and tons of success i loved it. but church sunday was funny. there was this little crazy kid running around the whole time in circles. he just wouldn’t stop. the entire time! he was running around the speaker the entire time!! it was so cool. i was laughing so hard. i’m sure that’s how i was as a child. but’yeah. i’m on pain killers for getting a wart removed. how weird is that? it’s ok doesn’t stop us from working! i love ya’ll and everything ya do.
love ya,
elder castleberry

March 23, 6:06 p.m. hey,

so my fingers doing really well. and yes my camera dates are right! duh! and the hour. it’s all right. but yeah my finger’s doing really good. i got the points out or whatever they’re called and it’s really weird looking right now. i’m going to send my sd card home pretty soon so you can look at all my pictures they’re cool. bunches of me on the beach just partying it up like nothing else! haha not really but it’s still fun. i love it out here! i did get a little sick this week. it was a kinda tough week. but i’m all right. haha yeah it was super weird seeing rich’s friends at church it was funny. they’re nice. haha! the mission is doing super good right now im loving it. the lord is blessing us like crazy! the work is awesome i love it to death and i love you all so much, thanks for your prayers. really you have no idea how much it means. i can feel your prayer power all the way in mexico. when times get tough i really can just see my little nieces and nephews praying for me and it strengthens me. i love this church its amazing and i love the blessings and i love you! thanks for everything
love ya,
elder castleberry

3/30/09 4:51 p.m. sup mother so i’ve had a busy day today cause we just had to get some people married again. i´ve married more people in my mission than most do in their whole mission i dont know what’s going on. it’s cool though. we had the sweetest baptism this week. someone named ernesto was baptized and he is so cool! really though. he´s had such a change in his life it was awesome to be able so see him through this process. he’s a doctor with a desire to learn like i’ve never seen. he’s read more of the book of mormon and bible than any other investigator ever. its so cool. we leave just a chapter for him to read and he reads like 16 chapters!! its sweet. he read all the gospels in the bible last week! he’s been super tempted but has over come it. i love it! this really is an amazing work i feel so honored to be here. i’m glad everything is going well with you all. everything is swell in mexico. love ya tons!!
much love,
elder castleberry
p.s. we still haven’t gotten stuff yet. gotta wait till leaders conference to get stuff, should be next week. thanks!

e-mail received Monday April 6, 5:31 p.m. “life is awesome” sup! so where do i even start, ok just to get it out there we went to the beach today and i totally stood under the arch it was super cool, no one can do that but we’re special and know people so we found out how. but yeah i don’t even know where to start with conference i loved it! it was just amazing! and yeah elder holland’s talk, super chill, the sad thing is that probably no one here even understood it here. they lack a lot of knowledge, ok we suffer two deaths that are obstaculos to get back to our father the physical death and spiritual, christ suffered physical when he died and how and when did he suffer the spiritual death? when he was spiritually separated from his father on the cross he says something like my God my God why hast thou forsaken me?.. yeah. i love it. thinking about the atonement just makes me weak, with the little i understand of it, i understand enough to know that it really is the only thing that can heal all wounds, i’m so unbelievably grateful for my saviour and his atoning sacrifice. we are all completely lost without him. and man the talk from the prophet, well talks! he’s cool, we only got to go the sunday sessions, and priesthood session. oh man, priesthood session was off the hook!!! i was like drooling because i was in such awe... but yeah that’s my feelings about that. then, well ok i’m going to stop but yeah that was super awesome. ok i don’t want to tell you about all the baptisms that i have because i think that’s just weird but i just had another really really special one. so when it’s super cool like this and that of ernesto i’ll tell you. dang that might be a lot. never mind just when i want to i’ll tell you. so their names are daniel and olivia, we met them two weeks ago, weren’t married or anything. they just got baptized the 3rd, daniel’s birthday. i don’t know how they dropped all the stuff they were doing and got married in such a short time but the lord blesses us and puts the medios for people to do his will. there weren’t dates to get married until the 15th of april. they got married like last week, i don’t remember the date right now they got married but it was super amazing! i’m super amazed right now. i love love love love love this work! i love this place too. we had to get 17 member registers things i don’t know what they’re called in english, cedulas, but we needed 17 of those to get a stake here in cabo san lucas, and guess what, yeah we did it last month! just started working super super super hard and found all these people that have been inactive forever and got their names and put them in the computer and yeah. cabos will now be a stake, it’s all ready, papers signed and everything. i love this place! love you, thanks for everything. i’m going to try to send you some pictures. love ya tons. keep it real!

hasta lavista baby!