Raining

Hey guys, thanks for the letters. Well, this week it has been raining a lot and I don´t think I have ever seen rainfall this hard in my life. There is rain...heavy rain... and get out of there or you will drown kinda rain. It's even worse when your rain poncho is made of paper thin plastic and it rips. Kind of like, "Look out! There is a hole in the Titanic!" Anyway, this past week I met a few new people or investigators as you call them. I met this one guy called Jimmy or Jimbo, a name that his friends call him. At first, when I started talking to him, I noticed that he had a few tattoos. It concerned me at first because of the possibility he could have been from a local gang like MS, but when I got a good look at his tattoos, they were of his dogs and a fish. The next day we passed his house and he was working on an old car trying to get it to start. Thanks to all the experience working with Cesar and at Francisco's as a mechanic, I was able to help him find the problem and today we go back to help him put the new diesel pump in under the hood. Should be fun. I actually kind of miss that work because it causes you to think and in a way it's sort of like a puzzle. Anyways, that's him. He started to cry a little when we taught the first lesson. I hope all goes well and he can get baptized. He will be a great influence on the youth of the church.

I haven´t had any new fruit or new food this past week and I hope it's not the food my cook is making that makes me sick. I think it's just my diet. I don´t think the human body is meant to live off of rice, bread, tortillas and eggs all the time. You get out of your body what you put in to it. When I get home, I don´t think I will ever eat rice, eggs or beans again.

Here's something interesting: because hardly anyone in the zone baptized this month, they canceled our p-day as a zone as sort of a punishment, I guess. I think it's kind of lame because we try and we offer the opportunity for these people to get baptized, if they don´t want to be baptized or don´t want the Gospel, there is not much we can do about them. Just move on to the next person and start working with them.

Well, I am done rambling for the week. Ready to get back to the house and invent some sort of fun activity with my companion so we have some sort of a p-day. HA HA HA HA HA AH HA. Can´t let the man get you down and just have to be creative.

Love you all and I pray for you all often.
Love Elder Proksch