Hey family,
How is everything going? Well everything is going well here in Trinidad. This week was pretty uneventful again, except for one thing, but we will get to that later. Over the past couple of weeks, we have had a really hard time with finding new investigators. We have been spending a minimum of an hour a day doing finding. One of the things that make it really tough, is that almost everybody here will let you in and listen to you, but not all of them will accept the message, so sometimes we end up wasting time with someone that is going nowhere. It is a little bit frustrating. On tuesday, we went to a town in our area called oropouche. It is where Shakilla lives, along with a couple of other members. We were doing some finding, and we went and called into a little house. An old lady came out and told us that we could come in. We went and taught her, but I am pretty sure that she is crazy. Whenever we would mention the name Jesus, or even anything about him, she would start crying. She has a son that lives with her and he has 2 kids. The kids are really cool, and they go to catholic school, so they know quite a bit about the gospel, the only problem is, they have been brainwashed. The old ladies name is sister mahaise and she cooks us food whenever we go over there. They are really nice, but to be honest, they aren't going anywhere. We are going to see them tonight, but that will probably be the last time we go over there. We also met a guy named richard that lives right behind her. We went and we taught him the restoration and it went really well. We stopped by the next day and started to teach him about the book of mormon. It was really frustrating, but really funny at the same time because he just kept on cutting us off and asking random questions. The best question he asked though was definitely this. Do you think that Americans are brainwashing the rest of the world? Hahaha then he went off on how evil america is and he kept on asking us why we dont do anything about it. It was quite interesting.
Now for the good news for the week. We are still working with Nikita. She was supposed to be baptized a couple of weeks ago, but she didn't feel like she had a strong enough testimony. We have been asking her to continue in prayer and asking if this church was true and if she needed to be baptized. We stopped by her house on Wednesday to check up on her and asked her if she had recieved an answer. She said yes. Then we asked her when she would be ready to be baptized, and she said soon. We are really trying to get her to commit to being baptized on this sunday, but if it is not this sunday, it will be on June 3 for sure. I am really excited because she will be a really strong member of the church. Remember to keep her in your prayers. We are also working with Lenroy, he is a 40 year old guy with a family. Our goal as a mission is to find families to teach and to baptize so hopefully things will work out with him.
Now for the saddest story of my life. So in San Fernando, there is a hill, called San Fernando Hill ( I know, they were very creative right??), but on this hill there are some houses, and we have always wanted to go tracting to them. We decided to on thursday and when we got up there, we discovered this little area, with some of the most run down houses I have ever seen. If we end up going back up there I will take a picture because it was really cool. But there were a couple of puppies up there and when we walked in there, they started following us around everywhere we went. We decided that we wanted to go look off the edge of the cliff so we could get a really awesome view of San Fernando. We walked to the edge and it was such a pretty view. I looked over to my right and I saw a puppy, trying to reach for some garbage that was stuck in the trees, on the side of the cliff. I really didn't think anything of it so I went on with my life. The next thing I knew, I heard a rustle of tree branches, and a dog yelping. I looked over, and I could see the dog, about 5 feet down the cliff, stuck in some trees. Now this isn't just a little cliff, its probably a 200-300 foot drop off, straight down. Then the dog stopped yelping, and I could no longer see it. It must have fallen to its death... I felt so bad because the dog pretty much followed us out to the cliff! It was horrible, and the puppy was so dang cute! I cant lie, I was depressed for the rest of the day, and I keep on seeing the picture of a puppy falling in my head. Well not really but that adds some effect to the story.
Well that was pretty much all that happened this week. I am loving it here, and Elder Kaelin and I get along pretty well most of the time. I cannot believe that you guys already ran Ragnar and that is awesome how well you all did. I am proud of all of you. Well sorry this letter is so jumpy and random.
I know that this church is true and that I am in the right place. If it weren't, I know I could not be doing this. I love you all and keep on doing what we know is right.
Much love,
Elder Gines
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