So This Week Has Been NUTS!!!!!!!!

He and his companion made chocolate covered bananas.  He sent this picture and a few of the broken bathroom sink.   Hopefully we'll get some of HIM next week. :) 

Email received today, October 29th.

After an interesting doctor's visit, he's healthy again and enjoying teaching his amazing investigators...

HEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So this week has been NUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ha ha first of all it started with a big training in the City and the traffic was HORRIBILE!!!!!!!!!! It took us 2 1/2 hours to get to the city and my area is only like 10 miles from the city!!!!!!!!!!!! That was on Tuesday and then on Thursday I had to go to the city again. Ha ha this is kind of a funny story. So anyways, I wasn't feeling good so I called the Hermana who's the nurse for the mission and she made a doctors appointment for me and told me to drink a ton of cranberry juice. So I went to the doctor and it turned out to be a urologist and she asked me all these questions and perscribed me a ton of medication!!!!!!!!!!!! I took a picture of it to show you guys how ridiculous it is!!!!!!!!! Ha ha anyways, I called the nurse again afterwards and she asked me what medications she perscribed me and then she thought i the amount of medication was weird so she called another doctor and he told her to tell me (yeah I know, this was a very complicated process) to not take any of the medication because it was probably going to be harmful and to just drink cranberry juice and he perscribed me an antibiotic that I took for 5 days because all it was was a bladder infection and I guess the Panamanian doctors always try to rip off the gringos and cheat them out of money. So anyways, I don't have the infection anymore I'm totally fine. Ha ha but anyways, it was SUPER nuts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Anyways, about the good stuff from this week!!!!!!!!! We were meeting with Katia (Davis' girlfriend) this week and randomly Davis called and she told him that we were teaching her so he asked to talk to us and he said that Katia had told him that she wants to get baptized so we need to teach her fast because they want to get baptized next Sunday. So anyways we talked to her about it and when we placed the Fecha with her for next Sunday, she said something that suprised us. Usually people are really hesitant about accepting a baptismal date but she said, "Yeah that sounds great!!!!!!! It's really soon but that's good because then I'll be able to learn faster!!!!!!" It was pretty dang cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Also another thing that was cool and strengthened my testimony of the truthfulness of the church is Katia's mom thinks we're crazy and we're banned from their Chino now. Why that strengthened my testimony was because you can see how true the church is because Mormons have always been persecuted whether it was really bad like the pioneers or even just a little bit like having missionaries banned from a chino. Anyways, I thought it was cool.

So something else that was kind of annoying is Davis and Katia didn't come to church yesterday. The good thing was they both had REALLY good excuses. Katia's grandma had a heart attack and so she had to go to the Interior (the inner part of the country) to take care of her, and Davis got called into work. He's a cop and for the past like 2 1/2 weeks there has been these huge riots in Colon because of something really, really, really stupid. There's this mall thing called Zona Libre where they sell stuff for SUPER cheap (it's all the stuff that ships coming through the cannal have to get rid of because the ship is too heavy) but anyways, the government is selling it and they are going to get almost a billion dollars for it and they are going to use that money to fix up colon and make it really cool. And for some reason the people here don't like that. So anyways there's these HUGE riots going on and they're spreading all throughout Panama (don't worry they haven't reached me) but they're SUPER bad in Colon. They're blowing up cars and stuff like that so Davis is a cop and he got called in to help with the riot control. So we have to post-pone their baptism for the 10th. But Carlos, the guy we were waiting on to get married, is getting married this week so he'll also be baptized on the 10th, and we found another girl in the ward who has been going for about a year or so and really likes the church but isn't baptized yet. So we're also going to probably baptize her on the 10th. So we're going to have 4 baptisms that day!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
 
So anyways, that's all that happened this week. Pretty crazy huh? But it sounds like you guys are doing GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm glad the halloween carnival was a hit!!!!!!!!!! I love and miss you guys SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

P.S. 
Here's the thing for your students, mom...{He wrote this note to my after school students encouraging them to work hard and do their best.  They were so excited he actually wrote to them! I sure do love this guy!!!!!! }

Hey Everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!  

I don’t know you but my mom says you’re all pretty cool kids!!!!!  Anyways, I just wanted to tell you guys about the importance of school and working hard.  I didn’t really work as hard as I could have when I was in school.  And it really made it hard for me when I was trying to get scholarships and go to college.  My grades weren’t as good as I needed them to be to get any substantial scholarships and it stunk seeing all of my other friends who had tried really, really hard all through school get big scholarships and I wasn’t getting any.  So, work hard!!!!!!!  Even though it seems like college is SUPER far away, it’s really not.  Before you know it, you’ll be applying for college and you will either be regretting what you did or being happy for what you did.  Because seriously, college is SUPER EXPENSIVE and if you don’t have any scholarships it can be really hard!!!!! 

I once heard someone say, “Do the hard things, because if you only do the easy things you will have a cheap life.  Don’t have a cheap life.  Work hard and make something out of it!!!!!” And I know if you work as hard as you can ALL the time, you will have a FANTASTIC life!!!!!!!!!!!  If you look at all of the successful people in the world, they are all really hard workers and gained all the success they have because they never gave up.  So keep working hard and NEVER give up!!!!!! When you give up you lose.  So work your absolute hardest all the time.  Get help when you need it.  Don’t be afraid to get help and ask questions.  

Also, when you’re applying to college, be sure and apply to SUU (yeah, you guys should all go to SUU because it’s the BEST school!!!!!! WAY BETTER than BYU!!!! ;)  )  Seriously though, it doesn’t matter which school, but it’s important to get all the education you can!!!!!!!  

Make sure you have no regrets!!!!!!!!!!!  Work hard!!!!!!!!