The rains came down and the floods came up

This week it rained a lot. Last Saturday night was especially bad. We were riding the bus home from El Jordan, which is the boons and the ghetto of my area. All of a sudden it started raining. We jumped off of the bus at Paraíso 2, the gated community where we live and we ran straight to our house. We had to be home early that day to not get in the way of a possible gang and police war. You would not believe how hard it rains. We ran from the stop to our house in under a minute and the streets were all ready filling up with water. As we were running through the growing river in the street the lights went out. Then they flicked back on and we got to our house. They went out again. It was still an hour before we were supposed to be in the house but due to the lack of lights and the raging river in the street we decided to call it a day and study and plan. It was pretty cool you could say. Attached is a video of it. 

I am still here in the office and I am still training Elder Gordon. He's really good. He'll be just fine. However there is some stuff that we still haven't been able to cover so I believe I'll be here until the end of this change or June 11. 

Another cool thing I got to do was accompany Elder Hoagland when he had a meeting with excecutives of Alpina Agua. Alpina Agua is probably the biggest pure water distributor in the country. We have a contract with them and they give us water. We have seen some discrepencies in the numbers. Basically they have taken a little bit more money than they should have from us. So we got to have a business conference with them. Didn't think I would ever do that on the mission. But hey the world is full of surprises. 

We've been doing pretty well in our area. We are working well and bringing a good quantity of people to church and finding pretty good new investigators. We are having issues putting baptismal dates with them. That's what we are going to focus on in these upcoming weeks. Iris still wants to get baptized but her mom hasn't given us her signature so she can get baptized. I really hope we can get that and baptize her before I leave. Pray for her mom so that we can get her signature. Keep reading Preach My Gospel and don't waste any opportunities to share the gospel. 

Love you all.

Have a great week.

-Elder Rowberry