It's true, fasting works

Hello,

For the first time in my mission, investigators will be getting married to get baptized! Mario who is the companion of Paula, is going to get married to her so that they he can get baptized. That has never happened. Usually when we bring up getting married to people, they usually laugh in our faces or it ends up falling through. This time they told us that they wanted to get married as fast as possible. O Registro Civil is the fastest way that they can get married, so we went there on Monday. There they told us that you have to make 2 appointments. 1. an appointment to set up the date of the real marriage and to get all the paper work done before hand (all the documents and stuff). 2. the actual marriage that takes place. Usually, they told us, you have to make these things way in advance, like a month in advance to do the first appointment and then another month before the actual marriage. Plus these months of August and September are filled with people wanting to do these marriages. They had no time but they told us to come back on Friday because the lady that does all the marriages was actually on holiday and wouldn't get back until Friday. So we left with little hope. Almost in passing I suggested that we do a fast.  It was a systematic reaction. I didn't think it would result in anything close but maybe they would find a little time toward the end of September or something.

Well on Friday we were doing weekly planning and as we were making plans for the people we are teaching, our phone rang. It was Mario, he started talking to us all excited. They had done the fast and we had done it too. We still hadn't finished but we were going to finish it with our lunch, in a couple of hours. Well he told us that they had found time, and that the marriage was marked for the 28th. I thought, the 28th of October or September? He told us, the 28th of August! I couldn't believe it. It had worked. I was so surprised! But it's true, fasting works.  Now they are going to get married on the 28 and he'll be baptized the same day. It's going to be real great. 

Hope you all are doing well.

Élder Fogg