We've had Some Pretty Sweet Lessons...

We received an email this morning!  Yippee!!!  He seems to be doing well and working really hard. The language is coming but probably not as fast as he'd like. He hasn't figured out how to send letters yet and he should be sending pictures next week.  He's doing well...

Hey!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah I'm doing great!!!!!!!! we've had some pretty sweet lessons this past week and 2 of our investigators came to church yesterday!!!!!!!!!! So that was super exciting!!!!!!!! One of our lessons in particular was really cool!!!!!! We were contacting in this one area that SUPER Junglely!!!!! I'll take some pictures of it the next time we're there because it's SUPER sweet looking!!!!! Anyways we contacted there 2 weeks ago and one lady let us in and we taught her and her son the plan of salvation. Then we made an appointment and went back last week and she was actually there (which doesn't happen very often) and this time her daughter was there too. And we taught them the restoration and about the Book of Mormon. Then at the end of the lesson Elder Meyer asked them if he gave them a Book of Mormon would they read it. Then the daughter jumped up from the couch and said, "Da me lo" which means give it to me. And as soon as we gave it to her she sat down and started reading it. We're going back again this week so hopefully she had a good experience with it!!!!!!!!! It was a good lesson but I only wish that I can speak more spanish than I can. Right now I only bear my testimony a few times during the lesson which is good, but I wish I could actually help teach....

My house is pretty nice.  And it's pretty huge. Well, huge compared to the houses here in Panama. It's about the size of Jose's old house. But seriously compared to the houses here it's pretty dang big!!!!!!!! We live with 2 other elders. Our area (Pedregal) is really big so they split it into 2 areas and the other missionaries who I live with work in the other Pedregal area. Their names are Elder Escalante and Elder Van Wessup. Elder Escanlante is from Columbia and doesn't speak English and Elder Van Wessup is from Utah, I don't remember exactly where from but somewhere up north. I think he went to Alta high school. Anyways they're both pretty cool. I see Elder Tukia a lot because he's in my Zone so I see him at district meetings and on P-Days. But other than him, I don't see anyone else because they are all in other Zones. 

Here's a picture I got online that is an example of a house in
the Tocumen area where he is.  

 We don't knock doors. The houses here are different. Pretty much every single house has an enclosed patio area with these big barred doors. So we just walk up to them and yell "Buenas" until someone comes out to talk to us. But yeah, we do that a lot!!!!! One day we had 5 appointments and all of them fell through so we contacted all day. And even the houses that don't have patios don't have real doors, they are those bar doors like I was saying. The houses here are way different to tell you the truth!!!!! And EVERY building is built out of cement blocks. Even in the main part of the city the hugh skyscraper buildings are made out of cement blocks!!!!!! The people are pretty nice towards us. 

P-days here are WAY better than in the MTC!!!! We actually get to do things!!!!!!!! Ha ha like last week we went to the temple (Which was SUPER COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The temple is SUPER small--only one endowment room-- and they only have like 5 sessions per day) but it's so sweet inside!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was nuts!!!! We had to wake up at 4:30 in the morning to catch a bus and then take a taxi to get to the temple before 8:30. We've also gone around to different places in Panama and went to the church and played soccer and all kinds of stuff. Today we were going to go hiking but it's pretty stormy. We think that the tail wind from some hurricane hit here (don't worry, it's just windy and rainy and it's not doing any damage or anything) But I'm not sure what we're going to do. Tocumen is pretty cool. There's some really sweet Junglely places like I was saying before.

Anyways, it sounds like you all are doing pretty dang good!!!!!!! I miss you all so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! .  I love you guys and I hope you have a FANTASTIC week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Oh and I was going to send pictures but the computer is being dumb and it's not working. And I don't want to mail my SD card because I don't want it to get lost. Next week I'll try a different computer. And the picture of Max and Emma is pretty much one of the best pictures I've ever seen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!