Penonome Branch #1 "Kimberly and Carlos and Cambios!"

Hi family!

First thing, I don't have my camera and Hermana Canedo has all the photos anyways, so I can't send any this week, which stinks cuz I got lots!

This whole week was super weird because we knew I was leaving Vista Alegre and everyone was so sad! It was cool because I felt so loved, people giving me gifts and crying and everything. Kinda cool, but sad too! But the biggest highlight of the week: 

Kimberly and Carlos were baptized!!!!!

Their mom came to the church for the first time to see it, and it was sooo special! It was a little stressful at first because four people showed up thinking they would be baptizing them! Bishop, Renyk, Elder Guillen, and a friend of the family. Sooo awkward! In the end, they got who they wanted, so Guillen baptized Kimberly and Renyk baptized Carlos. It was soooo cool to see my recent convert of 4 weeks get to baptize someone else!!!

foto de baptism... I cried cuz I was so happy haha!

After that was Domingo (Sunday). Jessop and I wore our Mola (Cuna clothes) to church, which was cool. Annnnd in la noche (the night).... CAMBIOS (exchanges)!!!!!!

I am now in Interior, the Zone Chitre, but really it's in the Province Cocetre or something like that haha. My area is called Penonome, and if you say it super gringa, it's hilarious. 

My new companion is Jade Schroppel, from Highland Utah!!! Graduate from LP too, but in 2014. Crazy right??! She is cool, is more new than I am haha, so we'll see how things go with our Spanish! haha.

This area, I've only seen a tiny part of it, but it is super beautiful.

Oh something crazy is that there is Carnival in all of Panama this week, and everybody legit goes crazy! You can throw water on anyone you want, no one has work, so everyone comes to my area and gets wasted. So we have to go home at 4:00 every day!!!! Isn't that crazy!? They said that usually they take out the missionaries from around here this time of year, so we'll see how this goes.

Ill tell you more next week and I'll send you pictures for sure!

Welp, love you all sooooo much! 

Love,

Hermana Hallsted