It was SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Email received 12/4/12

HEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Everything's pretty dang good here!!!!!!!!!! My investigators are frustrating but good. A lot of them just don't want to come to church for whatever reason but they're good. Something pretty cool that I don't think I told you about is we're teaching this lady Maricruz. One day she came up and asked us who Mormon was. And then we visited her and she told us that gringo missionaries have been coming to her lavamatico (sorry for the life of me I can't remember the english word for that) to wash their clothes and she said that she's been starting to think that it's a sign or something. So yeah she's pretty golden, well other than the fact that she doesn't come to church. But anyways, for a while we'd been noticing this big posters and signs painted on walls that say "Votar Maricuz" so like campaign posters and stuff. And so we were curious to see if that was the same Maricruz so one day we asked her about it and aparently she's running for some delegate or something like that. So yeah, no big deal, we're just teaching someone famous. Ha ha but yeah anyway, we're teaching her again today so hopefully she finally understands the importance of church attendance and comes to church this Sunday!!!!!!! Also, Carlos is getting baptized this Saturday which I'm SUPER excited about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And he is too!!!!!!!!!!! 

Oh also the reason why I'm writing on Tuesday again this week is because we went to this Island called Taboga yesterday and we got back late so we had no time (well we could've got back on time but nobody listens to Elder Barrie and me and they get on the wrong buses and we go all over the place) but anyways, it was SUPER COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously this Island is INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You should look it up!!!!!!! I forgot my camera today so I'll upload pictueres from it next week but seriously it was DANG COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And it was SUPER cool too because not very many missionaries get to go to it because you need to get special promission from President Ward because you have to take a 45 minute boat ride. But we got to go and it was SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I haven't heard anything from president about Christmas yet. But tomorrow is our Christmas party so I'll ask him about it tomorrow and I'll let you know. But I've asked around and nobody has said anything about the no skype thing. Even all the old people who were here last Christmas said that President let them skype last year so I'll ask him about it tomorrow but I'm pretty sure I'll be able to Skype. The only bad  thing that's going to happen is that changes are on the 20th of this month and since I've been in Pedregal for 3 changes I'm 95% sure I'll get changed to a new area 5 days before christmas... So it will be a little frustrating but it will be fine. My package hasn't come yet but like I said the Christmas party is tomorrow so my package might be sitting in the office and I might get it tomorrow. It's pretty sweet we're having our party in Cardinas which is pretty much the richest part of Panama (it's where all the rich gringos live) . It's right next to the Temple. So we'll probably get some pretty good gringo food (so not rice) and it should be pretty sweet!!!!!!!!! 

I got to watch the Christmas devotional on Sunday which was pretty sweet!!!!!!!! It was in Spanish but I can understand 90% of Spanish now but it was just kind of different not hearing the prophet and apostles talk in English. But it was still REALLY good!!!!!!!!!! I really liked President Eyring's talk!!!!!!!!!!!! 

The church that was broken into wasn't my church. It was the stake center and it was broken into 3 times. They never caught the person who broke in (but they probably didn't look very hard because it was a LDS chapel and the cops don't really care about it all that much) but they're installing a security system so that will be good. But yeah all the members are good. 

It sounds like you all are doing good!!!!!!!!!!!! Ha ha that story about Emma not cleaning her room is PRICELESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ha ha SO FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's cool that you got to go to Christmas around the world!!!!!!!! Yeah Kyla was telling me about it. Anyways, like I said everything is going good here!!!!!!!!!!!! My Spanish is coming along really well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyways, I LOVE AND MISS YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!