I Never Thought I'd Ever Say That in My Entire Life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Email received 11/28/12

Hey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Things are going good here still!!!!!!!!!!!! We have some SUPER sweet investigators, all old ones. But Carlos is getting baptized on the 8th and Davis and Katia should also be getting baptized that day too!!!!!!! And we'll probably be baptizing 2 of one of our recent convert's grandkids too!!!!!!!!!! So the Lord's work is moving onward!!!!!!!!!!! Also Ruth (that girl we just baptized) got confirmed this week at church and it was SUPER COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Also I ate pig tail on Sunday. Yep, I never thought I'd ever say that in my entire life!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ha ha but yeah it was SUPER gross!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also for thanksgiving I had mondongo (cow stomach) Ha ha yeah only the Panama zone got to have dinner at President's house. But it's all good :) 

Anyways, I'm SUPER GLAD everything's going GREAT for you guys!!!!!!!!!!!! Tell Max Happy Birthday for me!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll write him a email on Monday because I don't have time right now. But I love and miss you guys SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Everything's SUPER GOOD Here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Email received 11/19/12

They had transfers but he got to stay in his same area, Tocumen, but has a new companion.  He is so happy that he didn't have to leave the area because he's been working with a lot of investigators and has established some great relationships with them.  He looks and sounds really good!

Elder Houghton and Elder Meyer (his old companion) with the Torrentes family.  He said they were one of the many amazing families he's met.  I love it!

HEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everything's good here!!!!!!!!!! I'm still in Tocumen but I did get a new comp. His name is Elder Harr, he's from Cedar Hills, and he works like an animal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ha ha seriously he doesn't stop!!!!!!!!!!! Ha ha so needless to say we're going to get a lot of work done this change!!!!!!!!! We should have a least 4 baptisms but we could have as many as 12 so I'm pretty excited about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah the riots died down a few weeks ago and they never made it to Pedregal which I was kind of dissapointed about. I wanted to be able to say that when I was on my mission I had to stay in my house for a few days because it was too dangerous to go outside. That would've of been a SWEET story!!!!!!!!!! But it's all good :) {Seriously!?!}

Anyways, my investigators are doing really well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We have a lot of them and they're pretty much all progressing!!!!!! And then yesterday when we were walking home from church yesterday this girl just walked up to us and told us that she wants to get baptized so we should go visit her house and teach her. Yeah pretty NUTS!!!!!!!!!!!  So we're going back there Wednesday. Also we had a SUPER good lesson with this lady Maricruz. She owns the laundry mat that we wash our clothes at. Anyways, we sang a hymn at the end, "Mas Cerca Dios de Ti" (Nearer My God to Thee) and the spirit was SUPER STRONG and she started crying and said that this is what she was supposed to be doing. So yeah she has a fecha for the 1st. Also, Carlos, my investigator we were waiting on for his marrige is FINALLY getting married on the 28th!!!!!!!!!!!! So we're FINALLY going to baptize him!!!!!!!!!!!!! But yeah our investigators are doing good

So SUPER funny and SUPER embarrassing story. So Saturday night we were eating dinner and I totally threw up. It wasn't because the food was bad it was because I'd eaten too much that day. You know, I'm kind of a light weight when it comes to eating anyways, and when I have to eat pounds and pounds of rice everyday it's too much. Ha ha but Hermana Rios was cool about it. I came out of the bathroom and she told me "Ha ha Elder, I've told you this before, you don't have to eat all of the food. If you can't eat it all stop." And then I told her that it was so good that I just wanted to eat it again and she laughed really hard. Yeah it was SUPER embarrassing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But it was cool because I actually made a joke in Spanish!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Ha ha anyways, everything's SUPER GOOD here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And yeah that guy in The District I think his name is Hepworth, anyways, he's a funny dude and yeah that's exactly how it is. Elder Harr was telling me the other day that he's never going to correct me on my spanish during lessons because he said that he doesn't know if the Lord needed me to say it the way I did. And I thought that was cool because it's true, you never know. A lot of times it takes some random Gringo with broken Spanish to get them to get baptized. Anyways I thought it was cool!!!!!!

Also, Harr is a singer and during 2 lessons already, I've sang solos...Yeah for some reason he likes singing a solo and then for me to sing a solo. Yeah not going to lie, I never thought I would ever be singing hymns in spanish in a random Panamanian's house :)

Anyways, I love and miss you guys SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He took this picture to show the 3 ties he got for $2 but I'm excited to see that he's been keeping his journal!

We Had a Baptism Yesterday!!!!!!!!

The email we received November 12th...

HEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope you all are doing well!!!!!!!!!! Everything´s been going good here!!!!!!! We had a baptism yesterday!!!!!!!! We baptized our Investigator Ruth!!!!  It was really cool!!!!!! And the baptism went really well!!!!!!!!!! 

Ruth is the beautiful young lady next to Scott.  She looks really happy!  

Elder Meyer, Ruth and her little son, and Scott.

It was good for her because she´s had a pretty hard life so I was happy to see at least something in her life go well!!!!!!!! Also this week has been pretty crazy!!!!!! On Saturday we went over to Ruth´s house to help her uncle do some yard work and I totally picked up a crab!!!!!!!!! It was just walking around outside and I picked it up and threw it into the trees. Yeah it was pretty much one of the coolest things I´ve ever done!!!!!!! Also, Friday I went on divisions with Elder Van Weezep.  When we were walking down the street this random guy stopped us and was telling us that he was scared to die and what he should do. He kept saying, ¨No qiuero morrir!¨  which means I don´t want to die. So, we gave him a Plan of Salvation pamphlet and he was really excited about it. Also, we went and visited Laundry Lady (the lady that owns the lavamatico where we wash our clothes) and we had a really good lesson with her and placed a fecha with her!!!!!!!! She´s really excited about the church and she said that she´s going to come to church. Shé couldn´t come yesterday because she was in Los Santos (2 hours from Pedregal) but she said she's going to come next week and if she likes it, she'll continue to come. And I'm pretty sure that she'll like it. She was telling us that she's been going to other churchs for a few years now trying to find the right chruch and she said that none of the churches were welcoming and the pastor people didn't even want to talk to her. So yeah, it's a good thing that Mormons are generally welcoming people!!!!!!!! 

Changes are this Thursday and I'm pretty sure I'll get a new companion.  I hope I get a latin companion so my spanish can improve!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyways, that's all that's going on here.  I hope you all are doing GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love and miss you all SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Elder Tukia (with the apple in his mouth) was Scott's companion in the MTC.  This is a picture I got off of his mission blog.  This was taken during a Tocumen district training.

Everything's Going Pretty Dang Good Here!!!!!!!!!!

{Here's the email we received Monday, November 5th.  He usually emails in the morning but we didn't get it until late afternoon.  I was starting to worry then realized how blessed we are to have email and we don't have to wait weeks at a time to get letters.  He seems to be doing well and is happy.  He finally sent some pictures with him in a couple!  He went on a hike for P-day. I wonder if he ever feels like "whoa! I'm in PANAMA!" It is a beautiful country but different from Utah for sure!}

Our handsome missionary... He looks good, huh?

HEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everything's going pretty dang good here!!!!!!!!!! Today we went hiking to this "lake" (it wasn't a real lake. It was a waterfall with a little pond at the bottom) But it was still pretty dang cool!!!!!!!!!!! And just so you know, it took me all the self control I had but I didn't climb up any of the cool rock faces there. But yeah it was pretty dang cool!!!!!!!!!!! That's also why I'm here at internet in the afternoon instead of the morning. 

Anyways, our investigators are doing great!!!!!!!!!! We are having a baptism this Sunday. And we're either going to baptize 1 or 3 people depending on a few things. Our investigator Carlos is getting married this week so we're going to baptize him and then Davis and his girl friend Katia might get baptized. They are both SUPER ready, the only thing is Davis is a cop and Novemeber here is NUTS!!!!!!!!!!!! There are holidays all the time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For example the past 3 days have all been holidays and there are 2 or 3 more this month. And they get pretty crazy!!!!!!!! For example on Saturday we got stuck at our Cocinara's house until like 5 because there was a HUGE party right outside of the neighborhood where she lives. This party was NUTS!!!!!!!!!! There were thousands of people and they were all SUPER drunk, some of them were naked, it was just all bad. So we stayed in her house until the party was over. And then President told us to be in our houses by dark these past few days because everyone is SUPER CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!! And it gets dark here at about 6:30 so we just had to go straight from lunch to dinner and then go home so we couldn't get anything done. Anyways, I totally got side tracked...Now back to Davis. He's a cop and on Saturday he is working at a parade in a City called Los Lajas. And it's really far away from Pedregal. Like 3-4 hours. So if he can get back in time we'll baptize him and Katia (they want to get baptized together) on Sunday with Carlos but if they don't we'll have to baptize them next week. But we also have another investigator getting baptized next week too!!!!!!!! Her name is Ruth. She's the niece of a guy in our ward and she's talked to the missionaries before but they stopped coming about 3 months ago and so we're just picking up where they left off. So anyways she's getting baptized the 17th. She's really cool and she has a pretty strong testimony too. 

But yeah that's how our investigators are doing right now. So look forward to some SWEET baptisms!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Like I said the past few days have been crazy and it's been hard to get work done but we've made the most of it and have done as much as we can. Also, this is SUPER funny!!!!!!!!! So Elder Van Weezup and Elder Barrie got robbed last night. But all the guy took was chiceme (this weirdly good corn drink) And he was SUPER excited about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They were saying that he was saying stuf like öh man I love Chicheme!!!!!!!!! Do you have to add sugar to it or is it already good to eat? and stuff like that. It was pretty funny!!!!!!! Other than that nothing too out of the ordinary happened this week. And the Sink, it's still broken. Elder Barrie bought some glue and we're going to try to glue it tonight but I don't know how well it's going to work. Oh another funny story!!!!!!!!! So the other day Elder Meyer and I went and visited that old lady Balbina because even though she's not progressing we go and visit her every once and a while because she''s SUPER old and nobody else visits her. But anyways, Elder Meyer totally fell asleep while we were there!!!!!! Ha ha Balbina thought it was SUPER FUNNY and she was laughing SUPER hard it was HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

It sounds like you all are doing pretty dang good!!!!!!!!!!!! So the elections are this week right? That's pretty NUTS!!!!!!!!!! In a few days we'll find out if we are going to have a Mormon president!!!!!!!!!!!! All the members here are freaking out about it. It's kind of funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyways, I'm glad you all are doing good!!!!!!!!!! I love and miss you all SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Some things never change!  Boy, we love and miss him!

So This Week Has Been NUTS!!!!!!!!

He and his companion made chocolate covered bananas.  He sent this picture and a few of the broken bathroom sink.   Hopefully we'll get some of HIM next week. :) 

Email received today, October 29th.

After an interesting doctor's visit, he's healthy again and enjoying teaching his amazing investigators...

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

So this week has been NUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ha ha first of all it started with a big training in the City and the traffic was HORRIBILE!!!!!!!!!! It took us 2 1/2 hours to get to the city and my area is only like 10 miles from the city!!!!!!!!!!!! That was on Tuesday and then on Thursday I had to go to the city again. Ha ha this is kind of a funny story. So anyways, I wasn't feeling good so I called the Hermana who's the nurse for the mission and she made a doctors appointment for me and told me to drink a ton of cranberry juice. So I went to the doctor and it turned out to be a urologist and she asked me all these questions and perscribed me a ton of medication!!!!!!!!!!!! I took a picture of it to show you guys how ridiculous it is!!!!!!!!! Ha ha anyways, I called the nurse again afterwards and she asked me what medications she perscribed me and then she thought i the amount of medication was weird so she called another doctor and he told her to tell me (yeah I know, this was a very complicated process) to not take any of the medication because it was probably going to be harmful and to just drink cranberry juice and he perscribed me an antibiotic that I took for 5 days because all it was was a bladder infection and I guess the Panamanian doctors always try to rip off the gringos and cheat them out of money. So anyways, I don't have the infection anymore I'm totally fine. Ha ha but anyways, it was SUPER nuts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Anyways, about the good stuff from this week!!!!!!!!! We were meeting with Katia (Davis' girlfriend) this week and randomly Davis called and she told him that we were teaching her so he asked to talk to us and he said that Katia had told him that she wants to get baptized so we need to teach her fast because they want to get baptized next Sunday. So anyways we talked to her about it and when we placed the Fecha with her for next Sunday, she said something that suprised us. Usually people are really hesitant about accepting a baptismal date but she said, "Yeah that sounds great!!!!!!! It's really soon but that's good because then I'll be able to learn faster!!!!!!" It was pretty dang cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Also another thing that was cool and strengthened my testimony of the truthfulness of the church is Katia's mom thinks we're crazy and we're banned from their Chino now. Why that strengthened my testimony was because you can see how true the church is because Mormons have always been persecuted whether it was really bad like the pioneers or even just a little bit like having missionaries banned from a chino. Anyways, I thought it was cool.

So something else that was kind of annoying is Davis and Katia didn't come to church yesterday. The good thing was they both had REALLY good excuses. Katia's grandma had a heart attack and so she had to go to the Interior (the inner part of the country) to take care of her, and Davis got called into work. He's a cop and for the past like 2 1/2 weeks there has been these huge riots in Colon because of something really, really, really stupid. There's this mall thing called Zona Libre where they sell stuff for SUPER cheap (it's all the stuff that ships coming through the cannal have to get rid of because the ship is too heavy) but anyways, the government is selling it and they are going to get almost a billion dollars for it and they are going to use that money to fix up colon and make it really cool. And for some reason the people here don't like that. So anyways there's these HUGE riots going on and they're spreading all throughout Panama (don't worry they haven't reached me) but they're SUPER bad in Colon. They're blowing up cars and stuff like that so Davis is a cop and he got called in to help with the riot control. So we have to post-pone their baptism for the 10th. But Carlos, the guy we were waiting on to get married, is getting married this week so he'll also be baptized on the 10th, and we found another girl in the ward who has been going for about a year or so and really likes the church but isn't baptized yet. So we're also going to probably baptize her on the 10th. So we're going to have 4 baptisms that day!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
 
So anyways, that's all that happened this week. Pretty crazy huh? But it sounds like you guys are doing GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm glad the halloween carnival was a hit!!!!!!!!!! I love and miss you guys SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

P.S. 
Here's the thing for your students, mom...{He wrote this note to my after school students encouraging them to work hard and do their best.  They were so excited he actually wrote to them! I sure do love this guy!!!!!! }

Hey Everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!  

I don’t know you but my mom says you’re all pretty cool kids!!!!!  Anyways, I just wanted to tell you guys about the importance of school and working hard.  I didn’t really work as hard as I could have when I was in school.  And it really made it hard for me when I was trying to get scholarships and go to college.  My grades weren’t as good as I needed them to be to get any substantial scholarships and it stunk seeing all of my other friends who had tried really, really hard all through school get big scholarships and I wasn’t getting any.  So, work hard!!!!!!!  Even though it seems like college is SUPER far away, it’s really not.  Before you know it, you’ll be applying for college and you will either be regretting what you did or being happy for what you did.  Because seriously, college is SUPER EXPENSIVE and if you don’t have any scholarships it can be really hard!!!!! 

I once heard someone say, “Do the hard things, because if you only do the easy things you will have a cheap life.  Don’t have a cheap life.  Work hard and make something out of it!!!!!” And I know if you work as hard as you can ALL the time, you will have a FANTASTIC life!!!!!!!!!!!  If you look at all of the successful people in the world, they are all really hard workers and gained all the success they have because they never gave up.  So keep working hard and NEVER give up!!!!!! When you give up you lose.  So work your absolute hardest all the time.  Get help when you need it.  Don’t be afraid to get help and ask questions.  

Also, when you’re applying to college, be sure and apply to SUU (yeah, you guys should all go to SUU because it’s the BEST school!!!!!! WAY BETTER than BYU!!!! ;)  )  Seriously though, it doesn’t matter which school, but it’s important to get all the education you can!!!!!!!  

Make sure you have no regrets!!!!!!!!!!!  Work hard!!!!!!!!

We Basically Have the Best Investigators EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here's the email we received today.

Sounds like he's as enthusiastic and happy as ever! 

HEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everything is going good here!!!!!!!!!!!! My investigators are doing pretty dang good!!!!!!!!!!!! We have this Investigator named Davis (I think I told you about him before) Anyways we lost contact with him for like 2 weeks and then we finaly got in contact with him and we were SUPER excited becasue he was SUPER positive when we talked to him last. Anyways we met with him and It was basically the best lesson of my life!!!!!!!!!!! Our plan was to teach the Comandments mainly the law of Chastity becasue we thought he was sleeping with his girl friend. Anyways, we started with the word of wisdom and we started telling him about it and then he stopped us and told us he knew that already and went on to basically teach us about it. Then he said that he's already stopped drinking coffee and that was the only thing out of the bad things in the word of wisdom he was consuming. Then we got to the Law of Chastity and Meyer let me teach it because I've never taught it before (oh and by the way, things are getting a ot better with him!!!!!!) But anyways I was pretty nervous to teach it but about half way through I asked him if he was living with his girl friend and he said that he wasn't. So that was a HUGE relief becasue we thought he was. But then to make it even better, he went on to telll us that he isn't sleeping with her either becasue he is saving it until after they get married in the temple (yes the LDS temple) because that was his ultimate goal. to get married and sealed in the Temple. This guy hadn't even been to church before!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I seriously almost cheered I was so happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And then he went on to tell us all this stuff that he has learned from the D&C DVD's that he bought at the vistor's center at the temple. He was telling us stuff like how the towers of the Salt Lake Temple represent the Aaronic and Melchezidek priesthoods and how long it took the temple to be built, and then he told us he watched "The Mountain of the Lord" and he really liked it and ALL KINDS OF STUFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And then we continued on and had a conversation abou the Plan of Salvation with him. And not a normal discussion you woud have with an investigator. We were talking about deep doctrine type of stuff like how the Earth is going to be the Celestial kingdom and how we have the potential to be like God and we will be creating worlds and stuff like that. This lesson was NUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And then his dad and brothers came in and started listening to us and they were really positive about it too and his dad told us that he was Catholic but he never goes to church, doesn't even read the bible, and thinks it would be cool to find the truth. And then he told us that he'll talk to his boss and switch his day off so he can start coming to church. So yeah, they're a TOTALLY LEGIT family!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Our goal is to baptize Davis, his dad, his mom, and his 2 brothers by the end of the change. {I'm assuming this is before they get transferred which could be soon.} And his girl friend Katia, is investigating and she wants to get baptized too but she just wants to learn more first. So yeah, we have a very good chance of baptizing all of them by the end of this change. And we have 2 more people who are waiting on marriage papers and one of them, Carlos, will have his papers turned in hopefully by tomorrow and then he could get baptized this Sunday. So yeah, we basically have the best investigators EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And the statistics about my mission. So there are about 200 missionaries here in panama. I don't know how many zones there are but my zone is the Tocumen zone. There are 2 districts in my zone. My district is Pedregal 1, Elder Van Weezup and Elder Barrie (the other two that live with me) are in Pedregal 2, and then we have 2 more elders who are in Nueva España. Then the other district constists of Mañanitas (that's where Elder Tukia is), Tocumen, 24 de Deciembre 1, 24 de Deciembre 2, and one more area that I can't think of the name right now. But anyways there's 16 missionaries in my zone. 2 of them are hermanas. We have a lot more gringos than most but we still have missionaries from honduras, mexico, guatemala, argentina, and columbia. Anyways, we have a pretty sweet zone!!!!!!!!!!

Anyways I love and miss you all SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, I Had a Baptism!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We received an email from Scott today!

He is really hot but happy!

He had a baptism and is working with many investigators. 

Here's what he had to say...

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

So I had a baptism!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was pretty dang exciting!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

One of the newest members of the church, Sara.  Isn't she beautiful!?!  I love her mom's shirt...it says, "Today MUST be my day!" Love it!!!!  His companion, Elder Meyer, baptized her and Scott confirmed her.  

 Also we have at least 2 more for sure this month. They're really strong fechas (that guy who we were waiting on his marrige papers, and Balbina) and we'll probably have 1 maybe 2 more!!!!!!!!! So I'm pretty excited about that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So, I started uploading more pictures and and could you organize it in some way where all the Panama pictures are together and all the MTC pictures are together? Anyways, yeah it's pretty much incredibly hot all the time!!!!!!!!!! Like remember how everyone always pours water all over their heads and the water's dripping and everyone pretends like they're sweating a lot? That's how it is, but with real sweat and all over your body. Never in my llife have my forearms sweated. And here, they drip with sweat!!!!!! Ha ha it's pretty nuts!!!!!!!!! And yeah water gets into my house all the time. especially when it rains a lot. For some reason they decided it was a good idea to build the rain gutter on the inside of the house. So we basically have a waterfall in our house when it's raining hard. I'll get video of it the next time it happens. We also have a lot of other investigators. And when I say a lot, I mean a lot!!!! This area is nuts!!!!!!!! Investigators just seem to fall out of the sky!!!!!!! But yeah we've defintely got our hands full!!!!!!!!! Oh and one of our investigators works in a Chino (Chinos are little stores that they have EVERYWHERE here!!!!!!! They sell stuff for SUPER cheap!!!!!!!!!! and they're normally owned by Chinese people.) And most of them you don't go inside of the store, you just walk up to a a window and tell them what you want and they get it for you. And the girl we're teaching works in one of those kinds (with the windows) and she invited us inside and gave us free sodas and we talked to her for like 45 minutes on the inside of a Chino!!!!!!!! Nobody gets that opportunity!!!!!!!!! Ha ha it was pretty dang sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Like I said, everything's going good here!!!!!!!! Yesterday I had an interesting experience. We got invited by the lady who gives us lunch Sundays to go to the cemetary with her. Not knowing why, we went with her. It turns out her oldest son died 12 years ago. I guess he was 16 years old getting ready to serve a mission. And it was interesting becasue she told us that the only reason why she's not sad all the time is because she knows that he's in the Spirit world teaching and being a missionary to those who are in spirit prison. It was a cool thing to experience. I never realized until yesterday how big of a blessing it is to have the knowledge of the Plan of Salvation. And to know that this life isn't the end. 

Anyways, it sounds like you're all doing great!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That' SUPER cool about Cole going on a mission!!!!!!!!!!!! I have had like 3 dreams where we were companions!!!!!!!!!!!!  Anyways, I hope you all have a FANTASTIC WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love and miss you all SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!