Sam is doing really good, we have been able to get a couple of e-mails from him, and the letters are coming as well. In a letter he sent to Sarah (one of his sisters) he said that the best thing he can say in Portuguese so far is

muito (moo-ee-too) legal (lay-gow)

translation: very cool

Excerpt from his e-mail today:

If you are reading this and haven't sent me a letter  yet I say unto  you 

Repent!  I need at least one letter a day to feel like I am

 worth  something due to the fact that a certain elder in my district

 recieves multiple packages  and multiple letters per day.

It is really easy to send letters through the websites in the last post.  

But, if you do, and you want a response, you need to put 

your address in the body of the letter.