It rained this week. A lot. This was the most rain I've seen in my life, let alone my mission, and it didn't stop! It was pretty gnarly, seeing that much rain. At the end of the week, though, the streets were completely flooded! There was water everywhere! I've never seen a real flood in my life. Luckily, we had special boots that the mission gave to us just for that. The whole day, we got to wade through knee-high water to and from our appointments. Now I feel like a real Amazon-explorer!
This week, we had the president come and visit us here in Pucallpa. We had interviews and room inspections, but the evening after our interview, we had planned to have one of the assistants to the president tag along with us for a few hours in our work. We got a call an hour before from the president saying that he, instead, will tag-along with us.
I was a little nervous, to be honest. I didn't know why the president would want to come with us instead of having one of his assistants do it. But it was pretty great. Teaching with the president was more productive and more fun than I had thought it would be. After we had finished, he gave us some advice, told us we were doing a good job, and went back to the stake. I could certainly be willing to do that again.
We've got a baptism coming up this week too! We're going to baptize a 10-year old kid named Max, who wants to be baptized because his sister was almost a year ago. He's super excited for his baptism. It's kind of a new challenge teaching a child, but in the end, it's been pretty fun! (For me, at least. My comp doesn't like it very much 
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The week after that, we're going to baptize Ludwig. I told you last week, but I forgot to include the totally awesome story about it.
So we had started teaching Ludwig at the beginning of February, but we weren't having much success with him. He wasn't exactly enthusiastic, he was hard to reach, and overall, it resulted in us losing contact with him altogether. About a month later, his member friend, Camilo, was driving us around to our appointments. All of a sudden, he says, "Hey, let's go to the church".
"Why do you want to go to the church?" we asked.
He shrugged and continued driving, saying, "I dunno. I just have a good feeling about it."
The church was far from our next appointment, but we had a good feeling about that too, so we went to the church. Turns out, the Zone Leaders were there and they were in desperate need of a vehicle. We let them borrow Camilo and we were left in front of the church.
After we used the Church's bathroom, we walked back out onto the street, and Ludwig just shows up out of nowhere. We asked how he was doing and what he was up to.
"I came to play soccer with the guys, but I guess I'm a little bit early," he explained.
It was too perfect. Not only through following the Spirit did we get to use the bathroom, but we also helped out the Zone Leaders a ton and found Ludwig again! There are so many miracles we can see in our lives if we're willing to listen and do what the Spirit says! It's definitely Ludwig's time right now and he's super eager to live the gospel.
How is everyone doing down there? I'm glad Dad made it back safely! Is Katie doing well? How about my awesome brothers and sisters? Nieces and nephews?
I love you all and I pray for you every day!
Elder Dixon
