Dear Family:

(Mom told Elder Marquis that dad was stuck out in the middle of PA and was only eating McDonalds :)

Well to start off I would kill to be able to eat some McDonalds lol. AHHHH, and a large drink, sooooo good.
Those big telephone wire spiders are called Golden Orb spiders and are very common in most of the tropical humid climates. Yeah, those babies are pretty ugly looking, lol.

No baptismal commitments this week...again...but close, hopefully.
I'm working with like 5 teenagers that are friends of the kids at church and one family that I really want to baptize. The father is coming along nicely but the mother is an Evangelico follower, and she really doesn't want to leave her church for the truth...but we´ll see.

I have 6 elders in my district. This past week I got to do my first interviews, which went pretty smoothly.

How has your week been?

My week has been super wet, lol, and I need to wash a lot of clothes but those babies take about a week to dry and I don't know if I'm going to have changes or not until tomorrow, hopefully yes, lol.

Last week you mentioned maybe having a meeting with a man you meet on the bus and your "perma-fried" guy on the street...were you able to visit with them this week?

I went out looking for them and couldn't find the guy on the bus and the perma-fried guy is still fried and can't really progress. But we´ll see.

Has it been really raining alot? I saw that there was another tropical storm this week. Do you have a "Go Kit" for emergencies?

Yeah, it´s rained a lot everyday since I started the mission lol, It's rain season lol. And yes, I have one prepared just in case something does happen, but very doubtful.

Me and some of the mom's on my missionary mom site are really going to try to make Christmas Stockings for the Elders and Sisters in your mission that wouldn't get anything. One mom's son, Elder Fetters, works in the office and is going to get us a # so we will know how many to make. If you have any suggestions of what to put in them, that would be great!!

They like candy and a lot of the missionaries socks have holes. I don't know, just stuff, lol.
But that's cool that you know Fetter´s mom, lol, he's one of my favorites. Almost all of the guys in the office are pretty sweet.

Do you want me to find you an electric razor and try to send it, or can you find one there?

Yeah if you can find one, that would be cool. I don't know exactly where I could find one down here lol.

I am trying to send out another box by the end of this week with a few pants in it. Need anything else??

Those Reeses were awesome!! lol.

Where will you listen to conference next weekend? Do you get to listen to all sessions?

Well, if I have changes I don't know where I'll be. If I don't, then I'll come here to Coatepeque at the stake center so I can listen to it in English.


Most interesting contact of the week?

On Wed. or Thurs. I went on divisions with some of the elders in my district and got to do my first interviews which was pretty cool. And then later on that night we went to the stake presidents house who lives in their area and ate dinner with his family. That was really cool because he can speak English so I could actually have an intelligent conversation for once, lol. What's really cool is that he had a carpet rug in his house! I haven't seen that in sooooooo long, lol, I didn't even put my feet on the rug because I didn't want to get it dirty. And something else pretty cool, he learned his English in England, so he had a little English accent when he spoke. I want to live in England soooo bad one day!


Do you know how fantastic you are and what an amazing man you are becoming and how much you are loved???

Yeah, but I still having some trouble speaking Spanish which stinks. UHHHH, I have almost been here 8 months!

See ya in a few or so...lol.


So yeah, thats about is for this week.
Love yall a ton,
E. Marquis