Dear Family:
Those gift bags sound pretty sweet. Looks like we're going to be having a pretty sweet christmas this year!!! (Our family is sending lots of gift bags for the children in the branch and villages)

I really do plan on going out with a bang, and having another 50 baptisms and being Santa Claus might just do the trick lol! (Elder Marquis has one month and 3 weeks left of his mission...but whose counting :)

We had another baptism this past Saturday which was pretty cool...it was my
25th...not the highest of numbers but compared to when I came into the mission and only wanted to get to 7...lol..

It looks like we're going to be having a lot more success down here also because the Xela Temple is now doing the open houses and just from our ward we are sending out about 4 busses up to Xela, twice a day....needless to say..THERES A LOT OF REFERENCES, lol!!!

Just with the past 2 days we have received more than 20 family references and each family has about 3-4 people....this is going to be a GOOOD Christmas, lol!!!!

Anyways, it's been a pretty cool week and this Wednesday, we got permission to go to Xela to do a session of the open house which is really coool! My whole mission has been focussed on this temple and at last I get to see it!!!

Love you tons, and keep up the good work back home!
Elder Marquis