"The rain came down and the floods came up!"

Hey there y'all. Hows everyone doing? 

Well I'm doing good here and the temperature seems like it rises and rises every dang day! The stupid humidity is the only thing that is effecting me! Anyways well besides that I'm doing good! 

So this week we had three really huge and horribly storms! No tornado or anything but "The rain came down and the floods came up!" We sang this song is church with the primary in Spanish and it was so funny! But yes its starting to flood again! no one has seriously been effected by it yet but if it keeps going as it is they will be soon! Everyday around 4 it gets cloudy and starts to rain for a couple of hours! I love it cause i love the rain but the storms here are crazy. We have been without power on and off for about three days know! In the pics you will see what happened in my neighborhood! Lightning came through and went to work on the neighborhood. It was so crazy and Elder Adams and myself watched from out apartment two houses get hit and three trees get destroyed all within a couple hundred feet of our apartment. It was so sad and we went to help them but the fire department wouldn't let us. No one was hurt but there was damage everywhere!

So besides that this past week has been really good! We went on exchanges with our zone leaders on Friday. i was with Elder Winegar in our area and he is a English elder who doesn't know any Spanish. We went trackting in our area and ran into a bunch of people. I had to do all the talking and it was super scary. We trackted into a lady named Lupe and now she is our newest investigator. Shes very solid and accepted to read the book of Moron and to pray about it. I was super nervous but did okay i guess.

After that we had another lesson with our strongest investigator Jose Sanchez. He is still doing awesome and progressing so fast. During our lesson he told us about a movie he is going to be in. Its a old Mexican cowboy movie and he just started laughing and said listen here muchachos... 

I'm going to be in this movie and I'm a Sheriff in the movie. We are looking for a guy who has killed a bunch of people and i got a great idea. You guys come in and while we are thinking of a plan to kill this guy, you come in and teach us about the ten commandments and how we shouldn't kill. Wouldn't that be great? i just started laughing and Elder Adams said well we have to call our mission President and get permission for something like that. He just laughed and said tell your president he can be in it too if he wants. Long Story short, we will not be in the movie ha and President Fenn said that he will find out more and get back to us hah! So that was a funny experience!

Well that's about it for this week and thanks everyone for everything and sorry if i missed your email this week! I'll get you next week! love you all, be safe, and have a fun fourth of July! 

Love Elder Banta