Hey everyone!!!

So I´m not really sure what happened last week. I thought that I sent my letter off last week but I guess not, lol.

Anyways, last week was really fun. We did enough work and completed enough goals that we got to go to this really cool Marvel, DC museum. It was pretty sick. And apparently they have a place here where you can play paintball, we´ll see if we can hook that up, hehehe!!!

I´d really like to load up some pictures because this week we also got to go to this really ligit resort area and play some mini golf. The place is called IRTRA and if I ever come back to Guatemala I´m deffinately going to stay here, lol, they have some much cool stuff and peacocks just walking around!!!

Also, I don't know what it is about this area but man I have been eating the groooooooooossest food I have ever eaten in my life, lol!! Just this past week I´ve eaten cow tongue, intestines, head, and some really wierd pieces of meat that are completely BLACK and filled with veins and having the texture of a mud, dirt,with a blood taste.....needless to say I have never brushed my teeth sooo many times in one week!

Oh! Then yesterday after church one of the members invited us over to eat and when we showed up they forgot or something. And it´s not that I don´t enjoy eating with some of these members or anything like that, but a lot of these people have absolutley nothing to eat here and then they invite us over to eat....I have never felt so bad in my life. While we were sitting there, and the mother was searching high and low to make something, one of her kids started crying saying.."mom I'm soo hungry"..and it wasnt like a, I haven't eaten since breakfast hunger cry, but a, I haven't eaten in a couple days cry..Then the sister brought out a soup type dish that reaked of the most awfull smell, but you have to eat! I felt so bad the entire time, like we have food in the house, and could have easily just gone home to eat but here we are taking what little this family has and knowing that it wasn't the best, eating it knowing that this little boy would die to trade spots with us...its such a different life down here.

As far as baptisms go...not this week. We had planned to marry a couple and have the husband baptized the following weekend but when all was said and done the husband backed out of the baptism and the way we work down here is that we can marry you without you having to pay, and its a little expensive to pay on your own to get married. The 17 year old husband backed out and the 18 year old wife was more than displeased with us, lol, but there wasn't anything we could do. We marry to baptise. We don't just give away really nice expensive gifts, when the other party doesn't come through with their part. Hopefully, later on we can make it work but for now we are going to have to drop this investigator and continue on.

It's like everyone wants to get to heaven and receive all of the blessings that the Lord has to offer but they aren't willing to give the very little that it takes to receive them..then we get angry because we don't receive the blessings.

In life I've come across what I like to call ignorant people...you know its right, you know what good things will come from doing these things, and yet you won't do it...you're just shooting yourself in the foot bud, and I can't help you with that!

But we did find a few someones really positive. One lady named Rosario, she used to come to the church when she was younger but was never baptised and now has two kids and isn't married but would like to follow Christ now. It is very positive and hopefully we can put a fecha with her this Tuesday!!!

Then there is sister Maria Ester, pretty much the same story but she is married and was baptised in another church and wants to follow in our religion because she feels it is correct. Hopefully we will be able to place fechas with both familys. In total the Lord would gain 5 more souls.

(Two letters combined...now the info about this week :)

I can't wait to get home to play with grandpa, sounds like you guys are having fun!!

Looks like everything is falling into place for school and work and what not, lol.

This week was pretty cool overall, we had four investigators in church yesterday and one family. We are going to do a little family home evening with them and a few other member families to try and get them all pumped up and hopefully get them baptised by the end of the week, WOOO!!!

LOL, last night was pretty fun too. We were going to go to one of the members house, the one that washes our clothes, and right when we were turning the corner to there house, out of the shadow walked out this drunk guy and was like ELDERS!!! And me being the super macho man that I am...jumped back a little freaked out, lol, but it turned out to be the husband of one of the members in our area. So we picked the poor guy up and took him back to his house and the wife, I guess felt a little embarrased that the Elders had to bring her husband back home and offered us breakfast today in the morning, which was pretty cool, I´ve never had anyone make me breakfast in the mission like that, lol. But man, the husband gave us a glass of coke and kept filling it up and we kept telling him thank you hermano but we can't drink coke....after all was said and done I can now say that I never want to have another glass of coke...ugh, so much!!!

But yeah, there is ton more I´d like to share with you guys and a whole lot more stories...some really funny, and others more spiritual. But most of these are going to have to wait...mostly because everytime I come to write....I cant remember what to say, LOL!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO DANNY!!!!!!!

Hopefully I can send some pictures off later!!,
Love you tons,
Elder Marquis