Week 47

A spoonful of peanut butter to celebrate my baptism anniversary cause we realized it too late in the day and it was the only sweet thing we had in the house.

With Genesis, an old friend from my first area, Vista Alegre!

Another friend from Vista Alegre, Rebeka, who has since moved to the Cáceres ward. She speaks fluent english and is engaged to a Canadian so you can imagine I loved having her around my first transfer

Holaaaaa soy yoooooo,

I´m trying to repent of my SLACKER emails cause I remember when I was at home and the missionaries I knew stopped writing letters it made me soo mad and here I am doing the same. The truth is that this week was, I daresay, inspired. I feel an overwhelming peace and hope for the area I´m in and I´m realizing what a privilege it is to be a full time missionary and to get to know and lead the Hermanas with the assignment I have. God is very good and panama is a very fun and interesting place. Next week I´ll think of some wholesome stories to share cause I´m having a great (but occasionally very stressful) time. 
Also yesterday we realized that it was my 12 year anniversary of my baptism and we had candles that we bought like 2 months ago when I reached my halfway mark that we forgot to celebrate cause we were busy so we opened them but it was the last day of the week and also the cambios [transfers] (lol, no changes for me or my companion this time)) so we had nothing good and sweet in the house except peanut butter so I put the candle in that. But like, if theres anything worth celebrating it’s the day that I started on the covenant path back to Heavenly Father and My Eternal Family sooooo yeah that’s like way more exciting than halfway through a full time mission. 
Probably most of you kiddos back home also got baptized when you were 8 and don´t think much of it, but one of the biggest blessings that I´ve had in my mission has been having my eyes opened to the things that have eternal value and the things that come and go and eventually pass away with the earth. If there's anything stopping you from progressing on the covenant path, stop it. Do everything you can to get back on the path because in the end nothing else is worth it. I know and promise that there’s nothing and no one that Jesus Christ can´t recover through his atonement if you´ll just have the faith to believe that. 

I hope you all had a good week! Love you all!

Me and Hna Beckstrand with Eda (a less active member) and her daughter, Keily. We LOVE them

Eda and Keily with Hna Montero and I.