Hi fam!
I love my comp, I love my new area, I love Panama, not too big fan of so much sun, but I sure love the awkward tan line on my toes!!
Penonome is beautiful! Mom wanted more weather updates, so it's just like all of Panama during the day (roasty toasty) and it is windy and I actually feel cold at night. I have started to wear socks every night!! Crazy huh? I haven't worn socks since I got here! The people here are way nice, but the work is tough as always. Our area is ginormous, so it stinks cuz there is no way we are gonna be able to go everywhere.
The best success we are having right now is with Suleima and her son, Angel. They are family of a recent convert here, but became investigators after I got here, which is cool so I can see all their spiritual progress. They are really progressing and this week Suleima told us of her strong desire to be baptized and we were just kinda shocked like, "yeah, I think we can make that happen!". We are also working with a man named Jose (classic), and he went to church this week with his girlfriend, who is a member, and loved it! I think he is coming along quite nicely! We also confirmed Nuvia this Sunday! She was baptized the day before I got here and just didn't show up 2 weeks in a row haha! Gotta love Panamanians!
Highlights of this week were: when Hna Schroeppel was telling a lady about her fear of dogs, and the lady switched over to talk about her fear of cars by saying, "I always have this fear that I'll get hit by a car someday" and Hna S responded, "espero que si" which means "I hope so". She missed the transition from dogs to the lady's propio fear hahahhahaha! It was so funny, cuz I was dying and the lady was all offended, and hna S had no idea what was going on!
Also: we go to this area called Anton every Friday, it's like a second area cuz It's super far away, but there are no missionaries out there, so we get to do it. Yay. But this huge guy we were teaching just loved us so much, he kept giving us a toooon of rotten fruit. They're really poor out there, so giving anything just is really nice. We had like 5 big bags full of it when we left. And as we were leaving he gave hna S. a HUGE hug hahaha! It was sooo funny and messed up her hair big time! After we dropped off all the fruit on some random person's door and ran, cuz we didn't know what to do with it haha.
Last one: We had absolutely no water for the past two days. That happens sometimes out here, so we have buckets and we had to take bucket showers with the water we saved in there. But we are kinda running out of water, so we will probs have to go shower at the church if it doesn't come back soon. That'll be fun!
Okay one more: Elder Gay from the seventy came and we had to watch it from Skype from the church, which didnt even work until the last 5 minutes. But what we heard was amazing! He talked about our ability to recieve personal revelation and how it can help us so much in the work. I loved it and I love being a missionary and being able to grow so much in the Spirit and know Jesus Christ is such an amazing experience!
Love you all!
Hermana Hallsted
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