The Lord is DEFINITELY Blessing the People Here in Bocas!!!!!!!!!!!!

Email received 7/29/13

HEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Things are going GREAT here in Changuinola!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We`re working hard and having a lot of success!!!!!!!!!! The only frustrating thing is that it`s been raining pretty much non-stop ALL WEEK LONG!!!!!!!!! Which wouldn`t be too bad except for we don`t like using umbrellas very often because the Jehovah`s Witness missionaries always use umbrellas and people don`t like them too much and when we use them people mistake us for them so we try to stay away from that :) Ha ha but it`s still going SUPER AWESOME here!!!!!!!!!! It was pretty sweet!!!! The other day our neighbors who are also our investigators were having trouble with all the water and there house was flooding because their house is the lowest one on the street so the water always enters into their house so we went over there and helped them dig a trench to guide the water away from their house. It was pretty fun and also it was SUPER HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!! So we were having trouble digging in the street because it`s SUPER rocky so it was giving us trouble and then all of the sudden we heard this rustling noise and we looked up and out runs this really fat shirtless guy from the house in front of ours and he thows a pick axe to us and then runs back in his house. It was pretty much the funniest thing of my life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh my goodness we were all laughing SUPER hard!!!!!!!!!!!! Ha ha but yeah it was pretty sweet!!!!!!!!!!

But yeah like I said our investigators are doing pretty good. Our neighbors are SUPER positive!!!!!!!!! They`ve known the church for a long time but just now are starting to listen to the missionaries and seriously they`re one of the most positive families I`ve ever seen here in Panama!!!!!!!! They`re SUPER nice always inviting us over to eat food and stuff and they REALLY like the church. They went for the first time 2 weeks ago and unfortunately they couldn`t go yesterday because they had something else planned but they REALLY like the church and their kids are always asking them when they can go back to the mormon church. We also have a talent show planned for next month and when we invited them to it they told us that they wanted to participate in it and everything!!!!!!!!!!!!! They`re a SUPER COOL family and we`re hoping to get them baptized next month!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We also have Joseph who is SUPER COOL also!!!!!!!! He had a fecha for this last Saturday but he didn`t get permisison from his parents...But something REALLY cool that happened with him is that he was telling us that he finally realized that he had his answer that this church was true all along. He said that he`s been struggling with that because he said that he never recieved an answer but he told us that he prayed again this week and he said that God told him that his answer is that we keep coming to visit him in his house and that we haven`t stopped. So he`s SUPER READY now and all we`re waiting for is el permiso from his parenets. So we fasted with him yesterday and we`re hoping that he can get baptized this Saturday.

We are also Nicoli and his wife. They`re SUPER COOL also!!!!!!!!!! Nicoli loves the church and the gospel. The only thing that is hard is that he talks FOREVER!!!!!!!!! Ha ha he talks about really cool interesting things that apply to the lessons that we`re teaching him but he just talks and talks and talks and talks. But he`s a SUPER COOL GUY!!!!!!!!!!!! And when we were talking with his wife she told us that if Nicoli gets baptized she`ll get baptized with him. But she said that she wants him to take the first step. She said that she can`t think of anything more beautiful than the head of the house hold taking the first step to help his family be saved. So she`s also pretty dang cool!!!!!! And we`re hoping to get them baptized next month also.

But yeah our investigators are doing SUPER GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And the entire zone is having TONS of success!!!!!!!!! The zone of Bocas del Toro is the smallest zone in the entire mission. Only 5 companionships. And they have never had more than 7 baptisms in one month for like 10 years and this month we had 13!!!!!!!!!! And we already have 25 fechas for next month. So yeah the Lord is DEFINITELY blessing the people here in Bocas!!!!!!!!!!!! It`s SUPER COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyways, I`m glad you all are doing GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Keep up the good work and I LOVE AND MISS YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!