Things are Going Pretty Good Here in Good Old Panama!!!!!!!!!!!

Email received 1/6/14

Oh hey!!!!!!!!!

Elder Houghton and Elder Polio at the Panama Canal

Things are going pretty good here in good old Panama!!!!!!!!!!! Today we went to the canal and saw some members from Canada there. They were pretty cool. :) But yeah it was pretty sweet!!!!!!! My investigators are doing pretty good. They haven`t been progressing all change long but now that the holidays are over we FINALLY had an investigator in church!!!!!!!!!!  His wife and his daughter are SUPER strong members but he`s never wanted to be a member. The missionaries have been trying to baptize him for years now but it was just never his time. But he FINALLY came to church for the first time yesterday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was SUPER STOKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So we`re hoping that he continues to progress!!!!!!!!!! New years was pretty cool!!!!!!!!! Yeah New Years is pretty big here. Everyone and their dog sets off fireworks from midnight until about 2 in the morning. It was pretty sweet!!!!!!!!! 

But yeah like I said things are going good here!!!!!!!! Something SUPER CRAZY happened yesterday!!!!!!!!!! We eat dinner with the family Caldaron Sunday nights and when we were their Hermana Caldaron was finishing cooking the food and we heard a HUGE explosion and we saw a ton of fire. We were SUPER worried that the gas tank for the stove exploded but what happened was...Well I`m not really sure what happened. All I know is that there was a huge explosion. And Hermana Caldaron told us that when it first exploded she said that she saw the flames going up towards her face but then all of the sudden she said that it looked like somebody pushed the flames back down and instead of burning off her face she just burned her legs a little bit. it was pretty crazy!!!!!!!! DEFINITELY a miracle!!!!!!!!!! 

But yeah I`m glad that you guys are all doing GREAT!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Have fun in school and have a GREAT WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE AND MISS YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

P.S.

I also made Muddy Buddies for New Years. The only thing is I couldn`t find chex so I had to use Corn Flakes. But it still turned out pretty good. Anyways LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!

Muddy Buddys

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