HAPPY INDIAN ARRIVAL DAY!!!!!!!​!!

Well Family,

First off I want to apologize to mom for not emailing yesterday. You see the thing is that Trinidadians are extremely lazy.. and they take any opportunity to have a holiday that they can. So HAPPY INDIAN ARRIVAL DAY!!!!!!!!! And its not just that, but on holidays, EVERYTHING is closed! But anyways, it was a good week, and it definitely had its ups and downs. It sounds like you guys are all doing really well at home. Dad, I cant believe you got a motorcycle! That is really sweet, except I was expecting a harley when I opened the picture. So this coming sunday, the 5th, we are baptizing 3 people. Shakilla, Mark, and Eva. I am really excited. Eva is a 35 year old girl and she is awesome. She has a really strong knowledge of the bible, and we have been teaching her for the past month or 2. She knows that the church is true but the only thing that has been holding her back is she lived with her boyfriend. We hadnt met with her for about a week and on saturday we decided to go see her. She has just recently moved into her boyfriends sisters house, and we went and taught her there. We asked her what she was thinking about baptism and if she was ready to either seperate or marry her boyfriend. In the past when we had talked about this with her, she said that she wanted to marry him, but we had been told by other people that he is a horrible person. So when we asked her this time we were expecting the same answer, but she threw us for a loop. She said that she is ready to seperate from him. I was so happy! She is living everything that we have taught her and is ready to be baptised. Mark and Shakilla are still doing really well too. Nikita, one of our other investigators, is going to be baptized on the 11th as well. I am probably going to baptize Mark, and Nikita though so that is always exciting.

Now for the crazy part of the week. Well it turns out, that Elder Kaelin had a massive boil on his leg, and when I say massive I mean HUGE! So on thursdayhe didnt feel like he could walk so we had to stay in. Haha I literally studied the book of mormon for most of the day and for the first time in my life, I completey loved it. Then on thursday night when we were sitting there and he started to look at it and it was getting worse. I told him that he needed to call Sister Ellison, the mission nurse and at least tell her about it. When he described it to her, she told him that he needed to go to the doctor right then. So our Zone leaders came and picked us up and drove us to Valsayn. We went to the hospital and they said they were going to have to cut it open, but they needed a surgeon to do it and he couldnt do it until the morning. So we went as stayed with the AP's. We stayed up pretty late and talked with them and then went to bed. We had to be back at the hospital at 6:00 the next morning though. When we got to the hospital the next morning, he looked at his boil and it was ready to pop. Then the doctor came in and said that they wanted to put him under general anethesia to cut it open. He didnt want to do that so he said he would just pop it himself. I was one of the grossest things I have ever seen. We went back to our apartment and we had to stay in on friday also. It is crazy how good a day off sounds, but when you have it, all you want to do is get back to work. The worst part was that while we were sitting in our apartment, Satan was out working with our investigators. We went to see Shelene and Nikita on saturday and both of them took a step backward. It made me so mad! the only good part was, Nikita got back on track. I think we might have lost Shelene though.

Just to answer a few of your questions, yes that picture I sent last week was of Doubles, and even though they look horrible, they are amazing! The mission office is in Valsayn, and that is about 45 minutes from me. My area is San Fernando and it is in the southern part of Trinidad. I cant remember what other questions you had but if you have more just let me know. I dont have time to write Individual emails today, but you all know that I love you. Thank you for all the prayers. I know that they really work. Everything is going great here, and I am doing really well. In sacrament meeting on sunday we had a really good talk on Faith. There was one sentence that really stuck with me. It was, Fear ends where Faith begins. Anything that we can imagine is possible when we have faith. I have seen this more on my mission than ever before. I love you all and thank you for keeping me updated.

Love
Elder Gines