83 - Day of the Dead

Well things are good here…not much going on, just trying to find new people to teach, but we are happy. We are doing our best and we are trying to serve and love the people. It’s hard sometimes. Sometimes people don’t act like they care. Some people are hard to love but then I have to humble myself down a bit and remember that God still loves them. So that’s a little hard for me sometimes. But it’s good to remember.

Me and my comp play basketball with a bunch of other people every week so it is pretty fun. It’s a little hard because then we feel crazy tired, but I guess it’s no pain no gain. But I’m feeling healthy for once and now my comp is sick, so it just kind of switched. But me and him get along really well, we are a lot alike and we seem to just work well together.

And now onto the area, so things are good here. We are just trying to get things done. We always seem to be late for something no matter how hard we try! But I guess that’s life in Panama. But we are doing the best we can with the time we have. We are just trying to figure out ways of finding new people to teach. It’s tough sometimes but we decided to go to a place and contact it all on Tuesday. We will see how that works out. But we are trying to change things up, do more activities and invite more of the members to come. Sometimes it doesn’t work but we will try different things to see what the members would like to do. We can hopefully get to work with more families, so that would be cool. G. is getting ready for her baptism. I hope it goes through! That would be awesome! We are trying to get more kids in the ward that can help us meet their families. Hopefully we can baptize more here in the future. But we will see!

That kinda sucks that there was only 1 kid trick or treating! Yes, it is the Day of the Dead here, but they don’t really take it seriously I guess. A few people dressed up and stuff but it’s nowhere near as cool as back home. But I mean sometimes things happen, so our Halloween went pretty good. We start off with my comp not feeling well, he still has stomach problems from San Blas (thank you Lord that I didn’t have any problems from my time there on the island) and then we went to buy some stuff, my comp bought crappy shaving cream, and then we went to a baptism later in the day, so it started out crappy but ended okay.

So the house sounds like it’s coming along great! That’s exciting!

So FYI, I finally got some Mike and Ikes last week in the store…can you please send me some more? They kind of don’t exist here! And it sucks!!

But I hope things are going good there. I love you. Have a good week!