I wouldn't say he ends the letter/poem "happy" or "sad" specifically. He sounds more wistful than anything, actually. You see this in the last two stanzas, most especially in the lines
"Pete, old friend, every time we have a good reason to get drunk and be carried home in a wheelbarrow, we always remember you. Oh, we miss both Pete and Pedro."
This wistful mood is the life of the entire poem, underneath all the ramblings and the irony. To me, the poem is less an informative one than one written by someone not quite sure how to word his emotions. It deviates from [what seems to me] the main message of missing an old friend, and instead reminds him of familiar memories, trying to tell him without saying so, that the real reason their town has changed is because Pedro is no longer there.
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