It was Definitely a Miracle

Email received 11/18/13

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

Good news about that family that were all sick... They aren´t sick anymore!!!!!!! They´re all fine and doing well. It was definitely a miracle that they are all doing good and that they didn't die.  [Thank heavens! Such good news!]

Inside his house in La Chorrera. This is it except for the bathroom! Can you guess which side is his?  (Yeah, the "messy" one by the window! Some things don't change!)

This week has been pretty good. The hermanas that I share a ward with had a baptism yesterday which was pretty sweet!!!!!!!!! It was also SUPER COOL because our recent convert, Jose, brought his cousin to church yesterday and he really liked it and now has a fecha for the 7th of December. He´s a really cool kid!!!!!!!!!! And I think he´ll progress really well!!!!!! Especially because he has the help and friendship of his cousin to support him. That's something that I´ve been noticing a lot lately. When the members fellowship the people investigating the church, the investigators progress a lot faster and become a lot stronger in the church. It´s really cool!!!!!!!

We also had a really big stake activity on Saturday. It was REALLY cool! It was a culture activity where each ward represented a different province of Panama and they did traditional  dances and dressed up like the people from that province. It was really cool!!!!!!!!! There was also a guy that sang. And it was cool becasue it was the traditional singing of Panama. Usually I don´t like it at all but this guy did it good. He´s one of the most famous traditional  singers in all of Panama and he just so happens to be a member also. Anyway, I recorded it but it´s too long to attach to an email so I´m sending it on a flash drive with  my pictures. But it was really cool!!!!!!!

I also attached a few pictures from the stake activity. The first one is of something called a Tembleke. It´s a typical thing that panamanian women wear in their hair. This one is pretty extensive and is only used during activities and dances and stuff. Hermana Vielka made me some simplier ones for you, Beth, Emma, Grammy,  and Nanny. I was going to mail them over but I don´t want them to get stolen so you´ll have to wait until I get back. But they´re SUPER COOL!!!!!!!!! 

Very beautiful!  Those are all little beads! Incredible!

The other picture is one of the traditional panimanian dresses. 

It´s pretty nuts!!!!!!!!!! The dresses are called Polleras and apparently they´re one of the most expensive dresses in the world!!!!!!! A hand-made one is around $8,000 so yeah they´re pretty nuts!!!!!!!!! 

I also got the flashdrive back so I´ll be sending that out hopefully here pretty soon!!!!!!! 

Anyway, like I said things are going pretty good!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for everything and I LOVE AND MISS YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!