oooops-- missed last week

What a week it has been! Between general conference, and zone conference and a super trade off in foley, i feel like my brain is about to explode! Saturday and Sunday, conference, monday, zone conference, after zone conference Elders Allison, Stone, Tebbs and Zabriskie come to Foley for a tradeoff (because they get rides to zone confernce on the mission office van, and they had to wait an extra day with us.) It was great to have them here, but i was thankful when they finally left. I loved being with Elder Allison, who is the second best missionary ever (2nd only to my son, Elder Clements... who really is the best and the most likely one to fill the upcoming zone leader vacany... and maybe even the ap vacany... just kidding, spanish elders dont do the whole ap thing... but if they did Clements would be ap... sin duda)

I realized a lesson, one that i have learned mulitple times on my mission, but one that i seem to forget... of how I should not wait for my cirumstances to be changed, instead i must get a\up and change my circumstances. I have a lot of things i want to do in Foley, but it is hard to impliment new things with a companion that has been in one area for a while... my old mind set was, just wait for a transfer... but i was very much chastisied from the spirit by thinkign that way, and now i realize i probably should get up and do some changing.

We have one investigator that is really progressing. His name is MIguel, from Tabasco Mexico. He is VERY intelligent... in fact he even uses old spanish forms of conjugating verbs (liek Hubiese and Fuese... like you would understand that... lol) and he is truly looking for the truth. Today we are going to try and teach him the truth of the law of sacrafice and recompense... how God blesses us according to our faith, and our righteous actions. Hopefully by teaching this lesson he will realize that he needs to take some steps of faith aka come to church, read daily, in order to recieve blessings. If this lesson goes well he should be prepared for a baptismal commitment very soon.

Well i am doing great. I am tryign my best to apply myself as best as possible. I realize the pattern i establish here may be the pattern i have for the rest of my life, therefore if i want to be successful tomorrow, i have to figure out how to be successful today.

I love you, thanks for helping me be here. I hope you can understand this email, because i am exhuasted. Love you lots

elder KEnck