The Spirit was SUPER Strong

Email received 11/4/13

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

Things here are going pretty good!!!!!!!!! Jose´s baptism was SUPER COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There were a lot of people there to support him and the spirit was SUPER strong!!!!!!!!!! His mom, who´s not a member, also came and we gave her some time to share how she felt and stuff. She said that she felt really good and wants to learn how she can also come closer to God. So we´re now working with his mom and trying to get her baptized too. It was pretty sweet!!!!!!!!!!! But yeah I´m SUPER excited that he was able to get baptized!!!!!!!!!!  Our other investigators are doing pretty good.  But yeah, things are going pretty dang good!!!!!!!

Elder Aguero, Jose's Grandpa, Jose, and Elder Houghton.  I love how happy every one is!

Yesterday at church was a little ridiculous. Ha ha so my comp and I showed up at the chapel at about 8:45 and nobody was there. Not even the bishop was there. There were 3 people waiting outside because they couldn´t get in because it was locked. Luckily we have the keys to the church also and so we were able to open the church. But anyway, we started setting things up and the bishop still didn´t even show up so we were thinking that we were going to have to run sacrament meeting but then at about 9:15 the bishop finally showed up. As we were finishing setting up the sacrament and stuff the bishop says into the microphone, "Alright everybody. We´re only going to have Sacrament Meeting today so you all can go to the parades." (Yesterday was Panama´s Independence Day from Columbia and there were parades ALL DAY LONG.) So we only had Sacrament Meeting so everyone could go to the parades...Yeah good old Panama, never ceases to amaze me :D

But yeah like I said, yesterday was a holiday. And basically all of November is full of holidays. Yesterday was the indepenance from Colombia, today is Flag day, tomorrow is something else, the 18th is the Independence Day from Spain, and there´s some little random ones that I don´t know. So yeah this month is kind of nuts!!!!!!!!! Today there´s a HUGE parade all over Chorrera so it´s pretty crazy right now. Ha ha but it´s fun!!!!!!!!!

I´m glad that everyone is doing good!!!!!!! Thanks for EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE AND MISS YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!