First email...

Hey family,
How is everything going at home? How are the girls doing? How are Damian and Trev doing they still more cute then ever?
Well everything is going great here. it's been a week and it has been great. The first 3 days were the longest days of my life we just had orientation after orientation after orientation. But since then it has been great. Sundays are great because we do nothing really we just have a ton of free time and so we just chill in our rooms. We had an elder go home the other day but it was for the good reasons. He was very funny and we all miss him a lot. This place is awesome and the spirit is so strong here. My p-day is today (Wednesday), we got to go to the temple and that is always amazing so it has been a good day so far.
The food here is alright but not the best not as good as yours dad not even close but i can live with it. My companion is Elder Cope and he is way cool and fun to be comps together with. We are studying hard and we are learning spanish pretty fast we taught our first lesson to a investigator proxy on tuesday and it went great i think. It was in english so that was good but soon we will have to do it in espanol. Spanish is actually coming to me, ive learned a lot in 7 days a lot more then at school and i actually remember it so that is good. How is katie and taylor doing? They getting ready for school? I heard lex went with the girls shopping and i just wanna say thank you for keeping here in the family and keep doing it please. Dad i just wanna thank you for the things that you have taught me. everything you have taught me will help me on my mission and i can guarantee that and thank you again. Mom thanks for always being there for me even though i was way obnoxious all the time. Your the best mom that i could ever ask for and i wouldn't trade you for anything i love you very much. Kate and Tay be nice to mom and dad and don't argue with them do what they ask and i promise you will be blessed from the lord if you do. Obey your parents is a commandment and you will be blessed. Also girls good luck at school don't be shy and just be yourself and you guys will love it. Also work hard in school because i wish that i would have worked harder then i did. also family check out dearelder.com if you want to get me letters faster but it is up to you on what you guys do. It is wednesday and i still haven't got a letter from you so i am expecting one later today or tomorrow so yeah. But i just want to tell the family of how great this gospel is and how grateful i am to be serving a mission. I've never been this close to the lord and it is the best feeling in the world. Keep me in your guys prayers and i will keep you in mine as well. This gospel is so true and the book of mormon is true as well as joseph smith was a true prophet and thomas s monson is our true prophet right now. Tell everyone i love them im going to be writing a lot of them while i do my laundry. I love you all and hope to talk to you soon!
Elder Harvey