We Basically Have the Best Investigators EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here's the email we received today.

Sounds like he's as enthusiastic and happy as ever! 

HEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everything is going good here!!!!!!!!!!!! My investigators are doing pretty dang good!!!!!!!!!!!! We have this Investigator named Davis (I think I told you about him before) Anyways we lost contact with him for like 2 weeks and then we finaly got in contact with him and we were SUPER excited becasue he was SUPER positive when we talked to him last. Anyways we met with him and It was basically the best lesson of my life!!!!!!!!!!! Our plan was to teach the Comandments mainly the law of Chastity becasue we thought he was sleeping with his girl friend. Anyways, we started with the word of wisdom and we started telling him about it and then he stopped us and told us he knew that already and went on to basically teach us about it. Then he said that he's already stopped drinking coffee and that was the only thing out of the bad things in the word of wisdom he was consuming. Then we got to the Law of Chastity and Meyer let me teach it because I've never taught it before (oh and by the way, things are getting a ot better with him!!!!!!) But anyways I was pretty nervous to teach it but about half way through I asked him if he was living with his girl friend and he said that he wasn't. So that was a HUGE relief becasue we thought he was. But then to make it even better, he went on to telll us that he isn't sleeping with her either becasue he is saving it until after they get married in the temple (yes the LDS temple) because that was his ultimate goal. to get married and sealed in the Temple. This guy hadn't even been to church before!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I seriously almost cheered I was so happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And then he went on to tell us all this stuff that he has learned from the D&C DVD's that he bought at the vistor's center at the temple. He was telling us stuff like how the towers of the Salt Lake Temple represent the Aaronic and Melchezidek priesthoods and how long it took the temple to be built, and then he told us he watched "The Mountain of the Lord" and he really liked it and ALL KINDS OF STUFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And then we continued on and had a conversation abou the Plan of Salvation with him. And not a normal discussion you woud have with an investigator. We were talking about deep doctrine type of stuff like how the Earth is going to be the Celestial kingdom and how we have the potential to be like God and we will be creating worlds and stuff like that. This lesson was NUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And then his dad and brothers came in and started listening to us and they were really positive about it too and his dad told us that he was Catholic but he never goes to church, doesn't even read the bible, and thinks it would be cool to find the truth. And then he told us that he'll talk to his boss and switch his day off so he can start coming to church. So yeah, they're a TOTALLY LEGIT family!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Our goal is to baptize Davis, his dad, his mom, and his 2 brothers by the end of the change. {I'm assuming this is before they get transferred which could be soon.} And his girl friend Katia, is investigating and she wants to get baptized too but she just wants to learn more first. So yeah, we have a very good chance of baptizing all of them by the end of this change. And we have 2 more people who are waiting on marriage papers and one of them, Carlos, will have his papers turned in hopefully by tomorrow and then he could get baptized this Sunday. So yeah, we basically have the best investigators EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And the statistics about my mission. So there are about 200 missionaries here in panama. I don't know how many zones there are but my zone is the Tocumen zone. There are 2 districts in my zone. My district is Pedregal 1, Elder Van Weezup and Elder Barrie (the other two that live with me) are in Pedregal 2, and then we have 2 more elders who are in Nueva España. Then the other district constists of Mañanitas (that's where Elder Tukia is), Tocumen, 24 de Deciembre 1, 24 de Deciembre 2, and one more area that I can't think of the name right now. But anyways there's 16 missionaries in my zone. 2 of them are hermanas. We have a lot more gringos than most but we still have missionaries from honduras, mexico, guatemala, argentina, and columbia. Anyways, we have a pretty sweet zone!!!!!!!!!!

Anyways I love and miss you all SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!