MERRY ALMOST CHRISTMAS!!!!


So I´m pretty worn out. There´s this pretty ligit little gym over by our house that we´ve started going to every P-day, and I really hurtin now, lol.

It's so wierd to hear the word cold...lol, that will never exist down here.

The mission bag presents went over great. They divided them all up so everyone got a little goodie bag and not just the Latinos. It was really cool because a lot of the gringos didn't get anything either. The party was so much fun though lol.
After the Christmas party we got our gifts I got 5 packages, 1 for Elder Langi and 4 for me. I don't know if Ryan´s or Michelle´s ever got here or not...what did they send?

Thank you sooo much for all of those gifts! I love them! I use them everyday!
And all that candy! What the heck lol! I had like every Elder out there just about chasing me down..Marquis, what you got over there for me, lol!

The party was so amazing, being able to see all the guys in the mission and the food was soooo good! I haven´t eaten food like that in a long time! To end the party off each zone had to do a little skit and ours was on Nefi and his brothers getting the plates with some added humor....so funny, President and everyone else was saying that ours was definately the funniest and the best. That was so fun. The only bad part is that I misplaced my charger and cord somewhere in the house so my camera died on me, but I got one of the other Elders to take fotos for me, so no worries.

About the call this Saturday for Christmas , I´m going to try and call around 7 or 7.30ish. That´s 7ish my time, I don't know what time that is your time...perhaps 8ish or so...I don't know..we´ll see.

Questions:

How is the work going?

It's going well. Just that we´ve been having a lot of activities these past few weeks and haven't really had enough time to work as much as I would like to but it does move on.

How are your investigators receiving your message?

Well, we just put a fecha (baptism date) with one of our investigators for CHRISTMAS day!!! It is with a really cool girl. She´s just like my first baptism...ready, she knows the scriptures, and she understands the need for the things we do. It's going to be a great Christmas!! How great is that for a Christmas present!?!?! And some of the others its just like paperwork...trying to get them married... so hopefully we should have all of the paperwork finished and into the lawyer by Christmas and then we´ll have another family ready for baptism. The gringo family that we´re working with is a little different, Roman and Sharon Gomez. They come to all of the activities that we have and to church on Sundays but they are just holding onto something and we´re trying to find out what that is so we can cut it, lol.

What are their names?

Olivio, Roman and Sharon Gomez, Noelia(the Christmas baptism), Mauricio, and Pedro.

Do you think you will stay where you are for the transfers on the 22nd?

Yeah, from what I've been told I'm going to be staying here for this transfer.

How is Elder Langi?

Great as always, lol. He reminds me of a cross between, Arnold Schwatzerneiger, Erkle, and some funny Hawaiian dude.


Cultural experience to share?

Iguana is everywhere right now and im thinking of definately buying some! mmmmmmmmm!


Spiritual experience to share? (We LOVED your idea about being firm in your testimony and praying with your contacts!! We should ALL be like that!)

Ummm, not really this past week. Although, we are trying to teach a new way now in our area. We have a member with one of those huge blowup movie screens and we´ve been hitting up all the hot spots showing church movies and teaching the lessons to the crowd and it seems to be a real crowd pleaser. Kinda like when the missionaries used to stand on the boxes and teach in the parks....just a little more up to date, lol.

Love you all tons,
Talk to you guys on SATURDAY!!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday to Shaun and DAD!


E. Marquis