Colón Week #4: “heyyyy 16 months is cool”

Doing the Lord's work selfie

taxi ride with the hermanas

My comp finished her 18 month mark this week and me my 16th month mark yesterday!! So we took a patriotic panamanian foto haha

In the bathroom selfie haha

Our special friend Alicia! She is super cute and always wants to sing with us. She lives on the street, poor thing!

a fun little house we found

Tracting hahaha CANAL DE PANAMA

The canal is in my area, suuuper close!!

This is a picture of a delicious sugar cane... Well, this one is actually old now, but sugar cane is delicious to the taste

This is our kitchen. Our house is by far the smallest house I've had in the mission!

Hola familia!

This week I did indeed complete 16 months in the mission. I cannot believe how fast time flies!!! I definitely don't feel like an old missionary. but alas, here I am.

Well, this week was a pretty interesting one, we had our miracle Edwin's baptism, it went super well, a little too well if you ask me. We didn't have to stress or anything, which has never happened before! We didn't have to look for witnesses or call people or run around for anything! It was the greatest baptism! And Edwin is soooo super happy! 

More news: I have to play the piano in church and, I'm just gonna state a classic: I wish I had learned to play hymns

Also we lost basically all our investigators this week, so it's gonna be interesting to see what we're gonna do haha. #missionarylyfe

Also we went to the letters of Colon today and took pictures with all the hermanas (there are only 4 of us). It was super fun!

Also the other Hermanas are the greatest! They are both new in the mission, gringas, and suppper cute haha!

And, that's about all I can think of! Hna Rodriguez is a little stressed out cuz this is her last 2 weeks of the mission. Which means I only have 8!!! Crazy!

Love you alll!!

Hermana Hallsted

HISTORY

The country of Colombia was named after Christopher Colmubus, as were the Costa Rican currency (the colón) and one of Panama's largest cities (Colón).

Since Christopher Columbus came from Spain, it should be obvious that Christopher Columbus wasn't the name he himself used.

In fact, his name in Spanish was quite different: Cristóbal Colón.

Colón (Spanish pronunciation: [koˈlon]) is a Panamanian city and sea port beside the Caribbean Sea, lying near the Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal. It is the capital of Panama's Colón Province and has traditionally been known as Panama's second city. 

History[edit]

The city was founded by Americans in 1850 as the Atlantic terminal of the Panama Railroad, then under construction to meet the gold rush demand for a fast route to California. For a number of years early in its history, the sizable United States émigré community called the town Aspinwall after Panama Railroad promoter William Henry Aspinwall, while the city's Hispanic community called it Colón in honor of Christopher Columbus. The city was founded on the western end of a treacherously marshy islet known as Manzanillo Island. As part of the construction of the Panama Railroad, the island was connected to the Panamanian mainland by a causeway and part of the island was drained to allow the erection of permanent buildings.

Much of the city was destroyed in the Burning of Colón during the Colombian Civil War of 1885, and again during a massive fire in 1915. The Great Colon Fire of April 13–14, 1940 destroyed one third of the city.^[1]