Hey family!!!!

Well hey guys!!! First off, thanks for all the birthday wishes!!! Am I really 21? Well, not quite but still... Wow, I'm old... I also passed my would be "slump day" If I had entered in the CTM on the right day I would have passed my one year and six month mark. How crazy is that? It seems like yesterday that you guys dropped me off in the MTC but then I realize that P and J have a KID, Mom and Dad live in TEXAS, I've lost 50 POUNDS, etc and I realize that things have really changed a lot. Oh well, I'll stop being sentimental.

So, this week has been absolutely CRAZY. Crazy good. We've been working like crazy. This email is going to be fairly short...If this stinkin computer would let me, I'd send you pics but it doesn't, so this'll have to be in bullet form:

• We're going to Baptize tomorrow!!! 4 People!!!!!!  YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• I discovered my companion's scared of chickens, so I chased him around a member's house with a chicken until he locked himself in the bathroom. Then I gave the chicken to the member and told my companion I let the chicken go. When he walked out of the bathroom the member popped out with the chicken and scared him out of his skin. I've never seen him run so fast! It was hilarious!
• So, we were at a member's house and she asked me to help haul her pig to her car to take it to another ranch-dealy-thingy. So another member jumped in, wrestled the pig into submission, hog tied it, and then told me to grab it and help haul it to the car. I looked at the pig and thought, "where?" His answer? "I'll grab the ears and the legs and you lift it up by its tail!" SO, I had no choice, I lifted the pig up by its tail and the sucker SCREAMED SO LOUD!!!!!! Well, I can't really blame her, I would too.
• So, did I mention WE"RE GOING TO BAPTIZE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? (I'm a little excited...)
• Thanks for all the love and support. I'm going to get a Christmas package together in a week or two and hopefully it'll get to ya'll for Christmas

Well, time's up, gotta run!!!! Love you all!!!!!!!!!!!! The church is true!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-Elder Marx