Everything's SUPER GOOD Here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Email received 11/19/12

They had transfers but he got to stay in his same area, Tocumen, but has a new companion.  He is so happy that he didn't have to leave the area because he's been working with a lot of investigators and has established some great relationships with them.  He looks and sounds really good!

Elder Houghton and Elder Meyer (his old companion) with the Torrentes family.  He said they were one of the many amazing families he's met.  I love it!

HEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everything's good here!!!!!!!!!! I'm still in Tocumen but I did get a new comp. His name is Elder Harr, he's from Cedar Hills, and he works like an animal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ha ha seriously he doesn't stop!!!!!!!!!!! Ha ha so needless to say we're going to get a lot of work done this change!!!!!!!!! We should have a least 4 baptisms but we could have as many as 12 so I'm pretty excited about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah the riots died down a few weeks ago and they never made it to Pedregal which I was kind of dissapointed about. I wanted to be able to say that when I was on my mission I had to stay in my house for a few days because it was too dangerous to go outside. That would've of been a SWEET story!!!!!!!!!! But it's all good :) {Seriously!?!}

Anyways, my investigators are doing really well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We have a lot of them and they're pretty much all progressing!!!!!! And then yesterday when we were walking home from church yesterday this girl just walked up to us and told us that she wants to get baptized so we should go visit her house and teach her. Yeah pretty NUTS!!!!!!!!!!!  So we're going back there Wednesday. Also we had a SUPER good lesson with this lady Maricruz. She owns the laundry mat that we wash our clothes at. Anyways, we sang a hymn at the end, "Mas Cerca Dios de Ti" (Nearer My God to Thee) and the spirit was SUPER STRONG and she started crying and said that this is what she was supposed to be doing. So yeah she has a fecha for the 1st. Also, Carlos, my investigator we were waiting on for his marrige is FINALLY getting married on the 28th!!!!!!!!!!!! So we're FINALLY going to baptize him!!!!!!!!!!!!! But yeah our investigators are doing good

So SUPER funny and SUPER embarrassing story. So Saturday night we were eating dinner and I totally threw up. It wasn't because the food was bad it was because I'd eaten too much that day. You know, I'm kind of a light weight when it comes to eating anyways, and when I have to eat pounds and pounds of rice everyday it's too much. Ha ha but Hermana Rios was cool about it. I came out of the bathroom and she told me "Ha ha Elder, I've told you this before, you don't have to eat all of the food. If you can't eat it all stop." And then I told her that it was so good that I just wanted to eat it again and she laughed really hard. Yeah it was SUPER embarrassing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But it was cool because I actually made a joke in Spanish!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Ha ha anyways, everything's SUPER GOOD here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And yeah that guy in The District I think his name is Hepworth, anyways, he's a funny dude and yeah that's exactly how it is. Elder Harr was telling me the other day that he's never going to correct me on my spanish during lessons because he said that he doesn't know if the Lord needed me to say it the way I did. And I thought that was cool because it's true, you never know. A lot of times it takes some random Gringo with broken Spanish to get them to get baptized. Anyways I thought it was cool!!!!!!

Also, Harr is a singer and during 2 lessons already, I've sang solos...Yeah for some reason he likes singing a solo and then for me to sing a solo. Yeah not going to lie, I never thought I would ever be singing hymns in spanish in a random Panamanian's house :)

Anyways, I love and miss you guys SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He took this picture to show the 3 ties he got for $2 but I'm excited to see that he's been keeping his journal!