Marc's email 8/26/2012

Well it sounds like the parties are all now over and the real life has started again. That is awesome that you and Matt had a good time in San Fran. I bet that was awesome and you had some bonding time. Now he is just posted up in provo just trying to get by living with 4 boys. I have come to discover that living with four elders struggles at times. Elder Webb and I are actually really clean and have everything organized. Then the two mexicans come and throw all of their dishes in the sink and never sweep or do anything really. Every monday elder webb and I clean the house and by about Wed. it is dirty again. And for as many times as I have told them to clean up their mess they never do it. I think I prefer to just live alone! It sounds like the family is calming down a little bit and everybody is going back to school. Just a question. What size shirt are camden cooper and cameron? To hook them up with some soccer jerseys. Well this last week was awesome! We were able to have our zone conference with the president which was incredible. He knows so much and he taught me a ton about the plan of salvation. I now understand it alot better and I am so much more grateful for it. I know that God gives us exactly what we want. If we dont want to do what He says, we wont want to live with Him. If we want to live with Him all we have to do is obey His commandments. We have been able to visit the family that I told you about and they are good. We are going to go with them today and teach them the plan of salvation and hopefully they keep progressing. Yesterday we had an awesome experience with another family of five!! So we were in the church and all of the sudden the secretary comes up to me and says that somebody is on the phone and wants to talk to us. So I talked to him and it was a member of a stake presidency in Mexico D.F. He said he had a family that wanted us to visit them. So we put the appt. for 6pm yesterday. We went and all five of them were present and it was an awesome lesson. One of the daughters, Karen, is going through a hard time in her life and had lost all hopes of living. The family was in desperate need of some kind of miracle. So we went with them and expressed our love for them and the dad told us he wanted to get baptized. With him we are hoping his 3 kids and his wife get baptized. We will be working hard these next few weeks to get them taught, prepared, and baptized. It is the familia montes so you can pray for them please. This weekend we will be baptizing Lupita. She told us about a dream that she had about leaving her catholic beliefs behind and getting baptized. God answered her! The only problem is that this weekend we have stake conference so she wont be able to get confirmed until next week, the 9th. The Montes family will get baptized the 15 then we will be looking for somebody to get baptized the 22. Then my stay here in Guadalajara will come to a very successful end. I love this gospel and everything that God has given me. I know Him. He knows me. He has answered every one of my prayers and has given me a personal witness that He lives. Jesus Christ is His Son. He is the Saviour of the World and has died for all of us. This is His church. He guides it through a living prophet and I have been called by the Prophet of God. I have felt the miracle of forgiveness and have seen the miracles of selfless service. I have seen His hand in this work. It is His commision, I am His servant. I love it here! Elder Burr