Foley work going slow!!

Hey dad

What a week. This was a very challenging week. We had a wonderful lesson with a new investigator who has lots of potential. WE will be teaching him on wednesday, and i hope to get in contact with him tonight or tomorrow. We are really struggling with our current pool of investigators. I have a lack of hope in many of them, and many will potentially be dropped this week... if my say goes.. lol. WE'll see what happens though, and no one is getting transfered for another 6 weeks.

The members are doing great. We spend a lot of time with the Avalos family. Jose Avalos is basically a Miami raised mexican. To give you an idea of him, imagine someone mid to upper 30s 5' 6'' maybe 230 lbs, huge crazy scar on his head, dressed like a gangster... yeah thats our first counsiler. lol. I first met him a year and 1/2 ago, and back then he was way involved in bad things, (drugs, etc). Today he is a completely different person. It is a great testimony builder for me of the power of the atonement. YEah, today he still kind of dresses like a gangster (no more bling-bling chains, thankfully) and he still talks like a gangster, but he truly has experienced an extreme change of heart. His wife is amazing, (Lily) and is one of the best cooks i have ever met. They have two kids (Jasimine, 15, and Joe, 11). We visit them often. I think a huge key in making the needed changes in the spanish group is utilizing the members. If we can teach them to help us, then we will be that much better off.

I am doing ok though. I am just tired. By the end of this last week, i was so dead, i just feel like my energy is gone, and therefore my desires to push others in the right direction is gone as well. But i have to stay positive, because i have learned that attitude is really everything. If i can stay positive, and if i can stay happy now, then i can always be happy. That is something i must learn now.

If you have any advice, i would love to know it. Write me a letter or something anything. specifically how to make others do soemthing? I need all the advice i can get.

Well have a wonderful week, know i love you and i am trying.

Elder Kenck