So on Tuesday we were having one of those AWFUL days where literally nobody is at home or if they are they don´t want to receive us so we were just walking all day in the sun, but we went to visit Leandro cause we were close by and his mom goes ¨Leandro´s not here! He got up at like 5am and went to the temple with the young men!¨ and then we asked his neighbor friend´s mom and apparently he got up super super early and got all dressed and called his member friend like 90 times and then they went to the temple for the whole day to do baptisms for the dead. It was so heart warming on Sunday to talk to him about his experience and how he wants to be able to go to the ´upstairs part´ one day.
The other happy thing is that we´re teaching this family (one of Leandro´s friends saw us in the street once and said ¨Missionaries! Come teach my family too!¨ and turns out they received the missionaries like 7 years ago and always went to church and everything but they never got baptized cause they took the missionaries out of this area for a while? algo asi (Translation: something like that). But it's also crazy cause the missionary that taught them in like 2013 is the very same missionary whose blog I read after I got my call. Small world. Anyways.) The mom is a very laughy sarcastic person and a little while ago we invited them to pray about if Joseph Smith was a prophet and they STILL hadn't done it so we were like "Would it help you if you did it right now, with us, so you don ́t forget?" and she accepted. So she said the prayer and then we all sat in silence for like 5 minutes. And she looks at us with tears in her eyes and goes ¨Hermanas. I felt something. And I´m confused cause I´ve always prayed but I´ve never felt this feeling before. It's like. Peace? Do you feel this peace every time you pray?¨ and it was just the best time. It was one of those experiences that I always hoped to have before my mission cause you see it in The District and stuff like that but anyways. Yeah.
Other than that, this week this member who´s Kuna [indigenous people of Panama] invited us over to try this soup they eat in San Blas that has coconut, plantano, yuca, and fish all mixed together. It has a long complicated name that's not English or Spanish. I surprisingly really liked it.
Also in our zone we took a picture of the Hermanas in order, from North America to South America.
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| Our very diverse zone of sisters! We even had a sister from Panama but she had to go home for medical reasons so she's not in the picture. :-( But the order is USA, USA, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina. |
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| Me and Hna Greenman on Divisions in Vacamonte! |
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| One thing I forget to mention is that a LOT of people burn their trash in their front yards. It took me a while to realize that because of the humidity the fires never spread or get big (a very foreign concept to a Utah girl such as myself) |
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| This week at church, one of the members who's not even in our ward gifted me this notebook. He taped an Audrey Hepburn quote in it that says "Nothing is impossible, the word itself says IM possible" and wrote his email on the back of it. He also tucked an origami rose and a San Blas painted feather in it as a gift. |
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| Dogs think they rule the world |
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| Bus stop in Bique |
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| With Nana, a Kuna in our ward who feeds us every week |
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