Week 22

wOaH hEy EvErYbOdY

This week I'm what the French call... overwhelmed by how much I have to say and how many pictures I want to send. We're just gonna powpow, keep it simple and organize it in 3 points.

Number 1. We had a baptism this week!! His name is Josid, he's 9 and I would adopt him as my own if I could. 

This is Jhovani. We´ve been teaching him almost the whole transfer and he's come to church a whole bunch but he has some Word of Wisdom struggles that are keeping him from getting baptized.

His mom and grandma got baptized in 2012 (when he was just a smol smol beb) but went inactive about a year and a half ago but one day we were out on the street talking to this man and Josid and his mom walked by and Josid recognized us and starting calling for us to come over but we were in a conversation so we couldn't and they kept walking. But we ended the conversation and ran to catch up with them to find out what the deal was and we exchanged phone numbers and well, here we are. We've been teaching Josid and helping his mom come back to church and it's just been soooooo. mm mm. Very fun. Josid has more energy than any kid I've ever met, he talks like a million miles and hour and is always just bouncing off the walls and making these weird funny crafts. It was funny, we had been teaching him for a solid chunk of time and then one day we were walking and I was talking to him and said something about Hna Castro and he was like "wait....who's Hermana Castro??" and we laughed. 

Numero 2. Today we had Hermana P dayyyyy- I got to see Hermana Hopkin my pal from the MTC and it was TOO fun. 

I got to see Hna Hopkin!

It's hard to tell but that brown ball of fur in the tree is a sloth!

Cerro Ancón from afar! 

We 'hiked' up this hill thing that had a great view of the Panama Canal and also I think is historic or something?? I don't know. [Note from Mom: Ancon Hill, which was used by the U.S. as a command post during construction of the canal, and is the highest point in Panama City. Now a jungle preserve and popular hiking trail along which a great variety of tropical birds, animals, and orchids abound.] We saw so many white people it was the weirdest thing of my life. But very fun, I enjoyed it. 

Also I saw a SLOTH and some other animal that I've not seen before.

[Note from Mom: It's an agouti! Basically an R.O.U.S.]

Number 3 is. I don't know. I just wanted to bear my testimony about the power of specific prayers. We started praying that people would be able to recognize us and representatives of Jesus Christ and literally that same day everyone we talked to was like "Hey tbh I was about to slam the door in your faces and tell you I was busy but then something told me not to??" and we were like "aw yeee".

Anyways that's all cause if I keep going I'll not stop and I wanna call my famfam. I love you all! Thank you for your support and prayers, I really feel them!

Hermana Tolman

Soaked from the rainstorm on our way to lunch!