The People Here are SUPER Nice...

Email we received on March 25,2013

Elder Houghton and Elder Mollinedo with the family they baptized when he first got to Bocas.

Hey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So everything`s going pretty good here. Yeah I`m eating a lot better now. The ward has really helped us out. We have lunch everyday and dinner almost everyday now. They also gave us some pots and pans and stuff to cook when we need too. And yeah they give us extra money to buy food. So I`m doing a lot better now. And don`t worry I get enough food. I`ve gained almost 15 pounds here in Panama already :) {I find that hard to believe from the pictures I've seen!}

Anyways, no I don`t get mail any faster. {I asked him if he was getting mail faster since he lives with both his Zone Leader and District Leader} They still have to send it from Panama City then here to Bocas which takes forever but with changes next week I`ll probably get some mail. 

Our investigators are doing pretty good!!!!!!! Yesterday we had one of them bring her brother to church too and he`s also SUPER interested in the church now too!!!!!!!! That was pretty sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also Hermana V (the lady that we baptized at the beginning of the change) told a story about how she came to know the power of the priesthood was real. It was a SUPER COOL story!!!!!!!!!!! Hermana V was one of those Eternal investigators that elders talk about. She first met with the missionaries in 1995. She has a SUPER STRONG testimony!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She told us how back in 1995 she recieved a blessing from an Elder that was serving here at that time. She was SUPER sick and the doctors were worried that she was going to die. But after she recieved the blessing she was completely healed. The doctors were even confused about it. It was really cool to hear because her testimony is SUPER STRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was cool because she`s already after just 4 weeks a SUPER STRONG member and she`s only going to continue to get stronger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hermana Vwith her granddaughters that were baptized with her.

We don`t do a whole lot of contacting because the part of our area that we do most of our work in is pretty small. President told us not go too far from the church to work. Yeah our area goes all the way to Costa Rica but president told us to try to work close to the church. 

The people here are SUPER nice just like all my other areas.

It`s pretty crazy...I learned the other day that there is this language here in Bocas called Wadi Wadi. Alright, before I tell you more, this is going to sound like I`m making this up but it seriously is a language here. It`s basically English but it has some random Spanish words, other words that are only in Wadi Wadi, and the majority of the words are shortened a lot. For example, "Give me some water" in Wadi Wadi is, "Gib me so wa tàh". And if you want to say, "I have a goal to learn Wadi Wadi" it`s, "I hab a meta learn Wadi Wadi". I know it sounds fake. Ha ha I was a little skeptical myself but I`m serious when I tell you this is actually a language here!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ha ha Hermana V speaks it and she`s been teaching me some things. 

That`s SUPER cool that you guys get to go to California!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That`s going to be SUPER FUN for you guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And as soon as I heard the new missionary change I knew that Sidney was going to serve a mission :) That`s AWESOME that she`s going to Texas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tell her congratulations for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And that story about Max.  That kid`s going to be a GREAT missionary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyways, it sounds like you all are doing FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE AND MISS YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!