Hey guys!!!!

Hey its gonna be a fast email this week, we're going to the city center to buy presents/souveneirs so we're gonna have to hurry on out of here to get there and back in time.

This week started off absolutely miserable. Everything was falling through, nobody wanted to let us in and all the addresses we went to try to follow up with turned out to be fake. It was a really rough week at the start. But then Saturday and Sunday turned it into an awesome week!!!

So here's what happened: The ward is having a monthly activity where everyone in the ward gets together saturday for lunch, eats lunch together, and then fasts together for the missionaries and for the work. So, we had about 40 people together fasting for us and for our investigators and that's when the miracles started happening. So, we finally started to teach the people and we finally started to see success after we all started the fast. We also had a ton of success bringing investigators to sacrament meeting and then we went to follow up with them afterwards. I asked them how they were feeling about the lessons we were teaching them and if they felt that the Lord was answering their prayers- and they said that they recieved an answer! We marked a date with a whole family of 4 to be baptized my last Sunday!!!!! They're a reference from a less-active that we reactivated and both them and they less-active are super excited and super happy (us too). Then we went to teach another investigator. He said that he wants to get baptized but he's having a hard time keeping committments. So, while we were talking to him I felt strongly that we needed to read 1 Néfi 8 with him. So while we read it with him the Spirit was super strong and we committed him to be baptized my last week as well. All in all, we have 7 people who are getting ready to be baptized my last week. 3 of them have problems with smoking, so we're working with them to help them quit before the 29th. Please keep them in your prayers and pray that they will be baptized on this day. It would be amazing to help them all be baptized before I go home. Please pray for them.

And congrats to Neal and Sydney!!!!!!!!! I'm so happy for them!!!!!!

So we gotta run but we're going to baptize everyone!!!!! Please keep us in your prayers!!!!!

Love you all!!!!

-Elder Marx