The first time we went to church in Sihuapan, Elder Lopez was installed as branch president and Elder Bowen as his counselor. That same day we met Margarita who stands beside her husband, Manuel. He is in the Mexican Army and is gone a great deal of the time. When he is there he challenges the priesthood brethren to pay their tithing, be active, live right. He did all that as a non-member. He isn't a member because he and Margarita aren't legally married. The missionaries worked long and hard with the office missionaries and the Oaxaca Mission to get her birth certificate so they could get married. The big day came on March 27, 2009. They were married at 10 a.m. at the town hall in San Andres. All they do is sign legal papers and pay money. There is no ceremony. At 11 a.m. they were both baptized. The picture shows Margarita holding a picture of the Mexico City Temple and Manuel Perez, her now legal husband holding the legal papers. In the background is his father, not a member but now receiving the missionaries. Their little boy is in the front. The missionaries are Elders Bowen from Camarillo, CA and Elder Lopez. Later that evening they held a church wedding at the Sihuapan casa de oracion with Elder Lopez performing the ceremony.