Dear Family and Friends:
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Ok so now for a little story for this week. Since we haven't been having like any luck finding anyone to teach in our area...mainly because everyone is drunk, we decided to give Amparo a break and visit one of our other areas, El Tumbador. Here is the story behind Tumbador: at one point there actually used to be a thriving ward in this town but there were 2 bad missionaries who drank and fornicated and ended up getting a girl pregnant and then about the same time the bishop was caught having an affair with another woman and in one foul swoop the entire church became inactive and didn't want anything to do with Mormonism. Now to some people this might look like a deterrent, but me and my companion are like, Awesome! We have the chance to rebuild an entire church!

Anyways, we´re going to try and find a house up there and make it our permanent place so we can just do work and activate all 5,000 people! And yeah the first house that we knocked on in this town turned out to be one of the fallen members and he was really upset to see us to say the least, lol. So after talking to the guy, who was obviously drunk, we were like we don't want to fight and left.

Then we found this kids house who actually was pretty cool and showed us around the town for a little while. There was this one family that lived like on the edge of town and we had to hop across rocks over a river to get to their house, such a cool experience. Then we found them and they were really interested.

And yeah, I'm just so excited to start work in a town with lots of people that doesn't even have the gospel yet. This is going to be so amazing!!!!

Questions:

1. Did you have any new food this week?
Well this week something new that I found out that I have been eating is cow head, lol, its actually really good!

2. How often do you interview with your mission pres?
Usually just once a month.

3.How was church on Sunday?
Church was church nothing really exciting but still fun.

4. Any investigators? If so, tell us about them...
Not really any investigators yet, lol.


5.Who was your favorite contact and why?
My favorite contact that we had was with this little 10yr old boy. We contacted him in this new area we got and since we didn't know anything about the town, he volunteered to show us around.

P.S. The CTR rings were a big hit!! (Mom sent some CTR rings in Spanish for Elder Marquis to give out)

Love ya'll.
Elder Marquis