Crazy Week!

Well Family,
How is everything going? It sounds like you guys had a good weekend up in Idaho. I really miss going up there. Well HAPPY 4th OF JULY!!! It is pretty awesome that we get to have p-day today, but we really aren't doing anything too special. This morning, we woke up, and some of the other elders came and we played a game of basketball at the church. It was alot of fun, but really hot! So in Trinidad, there are only 2 seasons. The rainy season, and the dry season. As of June 1 it has been the rainy season, and this week was the first week that was really wet. And when it rains here, it pours. Every single day this week, we have gotten completely soaked from head to toe, but you learn to just ignore it. The best part about it is, all Trini's think that if there head gets wet from the rain, they are going to get sick, so as soon as it rains, they run for cover. Then there are just 2 white boys walking down the street, getting drenched. They all look at us so weird, but we just tell them that the lords work just go on, rain or shine. This week, we saw alot of success. In zone conference, we really talked about being 100% diligent, and so we focused on that really hard. The thing is, when we are doing everything we can do, satan starts working even harder. This week we have been cussed at, and made fun of, more than I have in my whole mission, but the lord definitely blesses us and allows us to not let it bother us. That is one of the biggest blessings I have seen since I have been out here. There have been alot of people that I have run into, that back at home, I would have just wanted to hit, but here, I have so much more patience with them. It truely is amazing. We did alot of finding this week and we had alot better success than we have been having. We found a couple of investigators that really do have alot of potential. One of them is named Sister Rampousad. She is a 67 year old woman, that knows the bible really well. We taught her the restoration the other day, and it went amazing. She has alot of stuggles in her life and the biggest one is taking care of her husband. He has lou gehrigs disease, and can no longer walk. The only thing that is even functioning is his brain and he cant even talk. It is so sad. We are going by her house tonight and we are going to give him a blessing. I am praying for a miracle to happen but one thing I have come to realize is that through faith, anything can happen. The bad news for the week is that we are going to have to drop Nikita. She is really moody and we haven't been able to meet with her very often. Whenever we do, she says she wants to be baptized but she doesn't keep any of her commitments and she hasn't come to church for a couple of weeks. Its hard to drop people sometimes but there just comes a point when our time would be spent somewhere else. The good news is that we set a date with brother Degannes for this saturday. He is still searching for an answer but I really feel like he is going to get it. The bad thing about him is he is going to live in england the week after he is to be baptized. We really don't want him to fall through the cracks over in england, so we are going to do everything that we can to get him baptized this week. He is really awesome though. Some of our other main investigators we are working with are Sandra, Rudolph, Sharlene, and Shem. They all have a sincere desire to find out if it is true and hopefully as we continue to pray for them, they will come to this knowledge. It sounds like you guys are all doing really well, and it will be such a great experience for you guys to house Marcella and the Japanese english student. One of my favorite examples of missionary work is in alma 62 verses 17, and 27-29. The people of ammon were able to convert all 4000 lamanites just because of their example. I know that it is the same today and right now we are trying to make this work here in San Fernando. We are trying  to start having people in the ward have house meetings, where they invite friends, Recent converts, and less actives, over and we would have a lesson. The only hard part, is this ward does not like being involved. It is really frustrating but we are trying our best to make it happen. Well I hope everything is going well, I will let you know when I get the package, but my guess is it wont be for a couple of weeks because it seems to move really slow down here. I love you all and keep on keeping my updated. I was a little bit disappointed when I got on this morning and I only had a email from mom. Just kidding, I know you guys are all busy. Sorry I dont have pictures, I forgot to grab my camera this morning. This week I will send home an SD card because I made a little documentary for you guys. It is called, A Day in the Life of Elder Gines and Elder Kaelin. Haha well I gotta get going. I love and rely on you guys more than you know.
Love,
Elder Gines