This week has been a great one!! We met with Mark and we talked about him getting a marriage certificate so that he can be baptized. He is almost finished with all the lessons so once he gets that he will be baptized. We talked about tithing with him. And from what i will tell you is his conversion. So we talked about Tithing and how we must start paying it after we are baptized. But then he looked kinda sad and asked if it was bad that he has already paid tithing a few times!!! We were like ummmm noooo.......thats GREAT!! He is such a fantastic guy! I love that man. We went to an area called Mtwapa and did some contacting there and got some great peoples numbers who seem interested to meet with us. That is an area like no missionaries have ever worked in so we are gonna convert everyone there. That same day a member just showed up at the church with his cousin Khamisi and we met with him and he is super nice and interseted and we had 2 lessons with him. He just came to Mombasa last week and we met with him twice and he is gonna stay here...so yeah i can see him in white soon. We also met a guy named Emmanual when we were contacting another time. He was in Boot Camp in Great Lakes and married a girl here and now lives here. He was like "yeah i know you guys!" we asked him how. then he told us all of that and was like "the Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith, right?" we were shocked and like yeah!! He said our church was the first church he went to when he went to boot camp there! We hope to meet with him again soon! Susan, Lilian, Robert and Winnie are all progressing well and they are reading the Book of Mormon and really enjoying it! Susan and Lilian came to church on Sunday and loved it!! We are hoping to extend a baptismal date to them soon! Hezbons family is progressing very well. They are like having a family reading competition!!! June (the daughter) is already in 3 Nephi and we gave the Book of Mormon to her like 6 weeks ago....she is FLYING and UNDERSTANDING IT!!! It is a miracle before my eyes. Then the parents Hezbon and Silvia are having a competition. Hezbon is in Jacob and Silvia is in 2 Nephi. They all love church, are singing the hymns, participating in classes, and Silvia is looking orward to being baptized on the 21st of January!! They are going to be a powerful addition to the branch here!! Sadly though, Nelly (one of the daughters) is going to Nairobi for University and June is going to Kisumu for boarding school. But she is so converted and we gave her a for Strength of Youth and a CTR ring as well. We will see those 2 only 1 more time before they go, so it will be very sad. But I will never forget them. They will forever be in my heart and i will definitely see them again. Silvia gave us our kneeling prayer on Sunday evening and she said how she is so happy because of the truth. How she knows that the Book of Mormon is true, how she knows Joseph Smith is a true prophet, and that they will one day be sealed in the temple. Another cute/funny thing. Silvia said they are going to the temple this year. We explained that they have to be members for AT LEAST 1 year. But she was like "I will find a way! I wanna be sealed!" They are the best ever i wish you people could see and meet them We got kicked out of Sacrament meeting on Sunday as well......now i know a lot of you know my personality and that i like to have fun. And it was not because of that. For just Elder Tshangu and I we had 6 investigators at church, 5 recent converts, and 7 less-actives. The other missionaries had numbers almost identical to that. And the chapel is small so we had to stand outside with a few members because there was so many people there!!! It was such a beautiful sight. Things are going really well here for us!! We have lost a few people we have been teaching from school, moving, and other things. But we are finding more people than we are losing, so we are stepping forward!! Lots of exciting things happening here!! :) I wish you all a great week and excuse me for the novel of an email. Just a bit excited..... 😃 Love, Elder Merz