44 - Great Week!

Haha mom are you serious!!!! How could you guys party without me?????????????? It makes me so sad!!!!!!! I miss my friends so much! I wish I could have been there for it. And it’s super funny to me how you invite my friends over without me there, and they stinking come! Haha they must be really cool!!!! 

But now on to the week. So this week was a tough one, but a fun one. Changes are this Wednesday but they say we will know changes by tonight. So I’m just waiting. But we have no clue what is going to happen this change. There are a ton of new kids coming in and they are opening a new mission in Costa Rica. They are going to send 30 missionaries from our mission there. That’s in March, so next change. So that’s another crazy thing happening soon! We are trying to guess who it is going to be. I really don’t want to change missions but we will wait till March to see what happens. 

We are teaching the woman with kids and we had a great lesson with her the other day. We took an RM named Eddie with us and we gave her a Book of Mormon.  He taught some important parts that changed the lesson completely. It was super good. Then this week, we had to do a baptismal interview on Wednesday. Thursday we went to the Hermana leaders’ church building for a cultural night. It was super cool! There was a lot of dancing and then we ended with some super good food. It was a fun time! Like really fun! Then Friday we had a normal day. And then Saturday we had the baptism of the girl I interviewed. She was super excited about it! It was cool to see! They also baptized another lady and she was afraid of going underwater, so it took some time to get that one done. But there were many pics taken from the missionaries. Let’s just say there are selfies of me on about half of the mission’s cameras now! haha yeah I try my best mom. 

That picture is of me and Elder Harris. He is my brother in the mission, which means my trainer was his trainer too. He is my zone leader here in Colon, and he is the only sibling I have in the mission. So it’s pretty cool! 

So this week I learned a lot about Latin culture. Me and Elder Ah Sue were talking about everything last night, politics, women’s rights, monopoly, Latin culture, gun laws. Everything! It was awesome! Then this morning we woke up early for pday to go play soccer again. Then we went to Zona Libre. I got a knee brace because my knee is acting up a little. So yeah, that was cool I guess!

But other than that not much is going on, things are good. I hope to stay here so I can keep working with our investigators. Especially Lacey and this new lady we found! She is a teacher, and her husband died 6 years ago. Y cuando ella me dijo eso, yo pense plan del salvacion. (When she told me that I thought, Plan of Salvation.) Y despues ella me pregunto como sabian a enseñar sobre familias. (Then she asked me how we knew to teach about families.)  Y mi respuesta fue porque enseñamos por el espiritu, el es nuestra guia y este es porque estamos aqui enseñandoles. (My answer was because we teach by the Spirit, he is our guide and this is why we are teaching them here.) She got super excited when we were teaching. She got super wide eyed and was like wow! That’s soo cool! She is super excited to hear from us. It was super cool to finally understand what it means when they said teaching with authority. I told her everything how it was, and I felt the Spirit super strongly. It was way good.

Anoche fuimos a la casa de Buena Vista para jugar futbol hoy. (Last night we went to a house in Buena Vista to play football.) Y ganemos. pero despues fuimos a Zona Libre, cuando vienen vamos alla un dia. (We Won. But then we went to the Free Zone. When we all come we will spend a day there.) Pero me alegre mucha a saber que todo esta bien. (But I’m happy to know that everything is fine.) Nadie tiene un extra hueso en su cuerpo! (That no one has an extra bone in your body!) Entonces hay peores! haha Te amo papa. Espero que tienes un buen semana. (Then there are worse! Haha! I love you dad. I hope you have a good week.) I hope this letter is sufficient length mommy. I love you!