Email received 8/26/13
Everything`s going pretty dang good here!!!!!!!! We`re working hard and having a TON of fun doing it!!!!!!!! I`ve learned that when you and your comp are working hard and having a lot of fun the work is WAY more effective!!!!!!!! Our investigators are doing good. Nicoli is doing SUPER GOOD!!!!!!!!! We`ve taught him everything and he`s now been to church enough times so we`re hoping to be able to baptize him this weekend!!!!!!!!!! Jospeh is also doing well. He is SUPER ready and always comes to church and reads. The only thing that he is missing is the permission from his parents. But once he gets that he`ll be baptized and will be a SUPER good member!!!!!!
Seegmiller is doing good too. And the next changes are the 18th of September and I`m almost certain that I`m leaving Bocas. It`s not very often that a missionary stays in an area for 4 changes let alone 5!!!!!!!!!!! So I`m probably going to leave. It`s going to be sad but it`ll be good. I was talking to Hermana Vielka and her family yesterday and we were talking about how hard it is going to be for me to finally leave Bocas. But it was SUPER cool because Vielka reminded me that she can go through the temple next March so If I`m in an area that`s close to the temple I'll be able to go with her when she takes out her endowments!!!!!!!! I REALLY hope that I`ll get that chance!!!!!!!!!!!
We got the washing machine this week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I attached some pictures. Washing machines here are different. You wash your clothes in one side and then the other side has this little basket thing that you put your clothes in for like 5 minutes and they kind of dry them. But anyway it`s pretty dang cool that we have a washing machine in the house now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also, it was pretty dang crazy!!!!!!! This week when we were visiting Nicoli, his wife came out and asked us if we wanted some purple bananas. At first we thought that we mis-understood her, but then a minute later she walked out of her house with a big branch of purple bananas. It was pretty much one of the craziest things of my life!!!!!!!! Also, it turns out that purple bananas are SUPER GOOD!!!!!!!!!! WAY better than regular bananas!!!!!!!!!
That`s pretty nuts about Cole!!!!!!!! That`s all going to happen SUPER fast!!!!!!!!! It`s NUTS that he`s already leaving on his mission!!!!!!!! But that kid is going to be a pretty great missionary!!!!!!
This week was also really good because I learned something REALLY important. Elder Clarke (one of my ZL`s that lives with me) gave me a talk by Gene R. Cook called Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. I attached it to this email so you can read it because seriously this is one of the GREATEST talks I`ve ever read!!!!!!!!! It completely changed my perspective about faith and how we should go about asking the Lord for things. This talk is AMAZING!!!!!!!!!! And if every member of the church reads it and then applies it into their lives the church would be so much stronger!!!!!!! I`ve been trying to apply it into my life and also into the work of the Lord and we have seen some GREAT blessings come from it. For example, everyone of our investigators that we talked to this week said that they probably wouldn`t have been able to come to church yesterday. So instead of giving up we exercised our faith in the Lord and when we woke up yesterday we felt like passing by Nicoli's house to pick him up for church and when we got there he was right about to leave to go to church. And then when we were sitting in Sacrament meeting and the familia Quinchoa (the golden family that we started teaching last week) walked in and sat next to us, and then about 5 minutes later Joseph walked in and sat down next to us too. Faith is a real thing and when we understand how to exercise our faith effectively, anything can happen!!!!!!! So I STRONGLY suggest you all to read it because it really is AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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