Everything's Going Pretty Dang Good Here!!!!!!!!!!

{Here's the email we received Monday, November 5th.  He usually emails in the morning but we didn't get it until late afternoon.  I was starting to worry then realized how blessed we are to have email and we don't have to wait weeks at a time to get letters.  He seems to be doing well and is happy.  He finally sent some pictures with him in a couple!  He went on a hike for P-day. I wonder if he ever feels like "whoa! I'm in PANAMA!" It is a beautiful country but different from Utah for sure!}

Our handsome missionary... He looks good, huh?

HEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everything's going pretty dang good here!!!!!!!!!! Today we went hiking to this "lake" (it wasn't a real lake. It was a waterfall with a little pond at the bottom) But it was still pretty dang cool!!!!!!!!!!! And just so you know, it took me all the self control I had but I didn't climb up any of the cool rock faces there. But yeah it was pretty dang cool!!!!!!!!!!! That's also why I'm here at internet in the afternoon instead of the morning. 

Anyways, our investigators are doing great!!!!!!!!!! We are having a baptism this Sunday. And we're either going to baptize 1 or 3 people depending on a few things. Our investigator Carlos is getting married this week so we're going to baptize him and then Davis and his girl friend Katia might get baptized. They are both SUPER ready, the only thing is Davis is a cop and Novemeber here is NUTS!!!!!!!!!!!! There are holidays all the time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For example the past 3 days have all been holidays and there are 2 or 3 more this month. And they get pretty crazy!!!!!!!! For example on Saturday we got stuck at our Cocinara's house until like 5 because there was a HUGE party right outside of the neighborhood where she lives. This party was NUTS!!!!!!!!!! There were thousands of people and they were all SUPER drunk, some of them were naked, it was just all bad. So we stayed in her house until the party was over. And then President told us to be in our houses by dark these past few days because everyone is SUPER CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!! And it gets dark here at about 6:30 so we just had to go straight from lunch to dinner and then go home so we couldn't get anything done. Anyways, I totally got side tracked...Now back to Davis. He's a cop and on Saturday he is working at a parade in a City called Los Lajas. And it's really far away from Pedregal. Like 3-4 hours. So if he can get back in time we'll baptize him and Katia (they want to get baptized together) on Sunday with Carlos but if they don't we'll have to baptize them next week. But we also have another investigator getting baptized next week too!!!!!!!! Her name is Ruth. She's the niece of a guy in our ward and she's talked to the missionaries before but they stopped coming about 3 months ago and so we're just picking up where they left off. So anyways she's getting baptized the 17th. She's really cool and she has a pretty strong testimony too. 

But yeah that's how our investigators are doing right now. So look forward to some SWEET baptisms!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Like I said the past few days have been crazy and it's been hard to get work done but we've made the most of it and have done as much as we can. Also, this is SUPER funny!!!!!!!!! So Elder Van Weezup and Elder Barrie got robbed last night. But all the guy took was chiceme (this weirdly good corn drink) And he was SUPER excited about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They were saying that he was saying stuf like öh man I love Chicheme!!!!!!!!! Do you have to add sugar to it or is it already good to eat? and stuff like that. It was pretty funny!!!!!!! Other than that nothing too out of the ordinary happened this week. And the Sink, it's still broken. Elder Barrie bought some glue and we're going to try to glue it tonight but I don't know how well it's going to work. Oh another funny story!!!!!!!!! So the other day Elder Meyer and I went and visited that old lady Balbina because even though she's not progressing we go and visit her every once and a while because she''s SUPER old and nobody else visits her. But anyways, Elder Meyer totally fell asleep while we were there!!!!!! Ha ha Balbina thought it was SUPER FUNNY and she was laughing SUPER hard it was HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

It sounds like you all are doing pretty dang good!!!!!!!!!!!! So the elections are this week right? That's pretty NUTS!!!!!!!!!! In a few days we'll find out if we are going to have a Mormon president!!!!!!!!!!!! All the members here are freaking out about it. It's kind of funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyways, I'm glad you all are doing good!!!!!!!!!! I love and miss you all SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Some things never change!  Boy, we love and miss him!