Foley, AL-- work slow

Mami

Let me tell you i love it when you use a translator, some times it turns out ok, and other times it is horrible! lol

To answer those questions...

1. Good.
2. Tough, but good.
3. Foley is decent... hmmmm... i guess Foley would be comparable to Cashmere.
4. AMAZING!
5. I will need to buy a pump for my bike... i think someone stole my pump off my bike, but i will buy that here, just so you know...
6. I havent heard from anyone. Rumors in the spanish zone tell how once a missionary goes to Foley, they never get mail again... ok, i need to stop being so lazy and send a few letters out. lol
7. IM glad... i probably owe you a letter now... huh?
8. Thank you!

WEll this week was tough. Basically to sum up our current situation, we have ONE progressing investigator. And the worst part is she will soon stop progressing, because her husband wont allow her to come to church, and it is impossible to truly progress until one comes to church. So really i have no idea what we can do with the current investigators, but many are in danger of being dropped, most have been taught for a long time, and they just havent been progressing.

The members are doing good. Not perfect, but good. Most are struggling to find work, and those that have work have little work at that. Church started a whole 25 minutes late (spanish standard time...) but the meetings themselves were very spiritual. I see tons of potential here. The members really are being changed by the gospel. But we have a long way to go. I hope to end my mission here.

So this week my comp and i woke up and ran 4 days of the week. And we both have gained weight so far... ha. I am trying to cut back excesively on portion sizes... that seems to be my weakness. I dont eat horrible food, i just eat too much of the good stuff (bread, meat, etc). It also doesnt help that we had a couple of days were the members fed us more than once (saturday we got 3 meals!) And so yeah.

Also this last week i was really struggling with spanish for some reason, so we spent a couple of days speaking a lot of spanish, and immediately i have noticed a difference. I might try and get the group members involved in helping me improve my spanish, i think giving them a call and chatting for a few minutes would not only help my spanish, but it would probably build a solid relationship as well.

But we have a lot of work to do. I am excited to be here. TO be honest i have no idea what to do with our investigator pool, heck half the time i just want to dump em and start from scratch, but then other times i see lots of potential in some of them. Who knows what will happen. I would really like to see a baptism though, the group hasnt had a baptism for more than a year.

Well i love you, hope all is well, and let me know if there is anything i can do for you.

Love

Elder Kenck