Marc's email 4/9/2012

Mom and family,
Happy Easter one day late. It truly was a great week and a great Easter. On the mission here in Mexico it is not very easy to realize that it is Easter. All the people just use the vacation time to drink with their family and go to the beach but for us as missionaries it was an incredible experience. This whole week was just full of good stuff. On thursday Elder Mangum and I were in the middle of our planning session and the idea came to my mind to go teach the gospel to prisoners. So we went to the prison here in Santiago and presented ourselves with the director. He recognized who we were and told us that he would love to have us go by and talk with them. So on Saturday we went to the prison, got the body pat down and got let in. The prison had like a courtyard type deal where we had a table and about
30 men gathered around listening. These men were some of the most respectful men I have ever dealt with. All of them shook our hands, told us good morning then went and sat down. We talked about the faith and repentance and had one of them say the closing prayer. We left several Book of Mormon and other stuff and the men were pretty happy.
They gave us gifts and told us they wanted us to return on a day when their family is there to be able to talk with the family. That is exactly what we wanted. The prisoners cant go to church so they cant get baptized quite yet but their families can so hopefully soon we will see the results we are hoping for. It was an awesome experience for me. apart from that we have several things going on. Today we had changes and Elder Mangum is bouncing out. We will be leaving tonight at 11pm to go to Guadalajara for the concilio then I will be returning on wed. with my new comp. Still dont know who it will be. This was a great change with Elder Mangum and I. Although we did not reach the goals we placed, we both agree that we have never worked harder it our entire missions than we did in this change. The Lord has blessed us and is pleased. I love Him and love His Atonement. I love His Gospel and His prophets that he has sent here to guide us. I love all of you.
Keep it real and stuff
Elder Burr