Familia!
Wow what an intense week! The trip to the temple was insane...i mean, satan didnt want us to go haha. But we made it and had an incredible session. Its really neat listening in Spanish...really different. When we got to Panama City we went to immigrations for my companion. We ended up waiting for three hours for the other missionaries to get there...oh and on the way there one of my shoes died. Literally...it died. Anyway, after immigrations we went to the temple...as we were walking up to the temple my other shoe died...these were shoes that a member loaned me while he took my real shoes to get fixed. So i`m walking up to the temple with shoes that don`t have a bottom...and it starts raining. And then the temple worker tried to scan my recommend and it wasn`t working! Hahaha oh man. He entered the number in manually and it worked luckily. The session was incredible. The greatest peace i`ve felt in all my mission! It was soooo amazing! After the session i saw Elder Poli there...he was doing batisms for the dead...really cool to see him. afterwards we were trying to get to the terminal and it was raining and we were about to miss the bus when a member stopped in a taxi and took us to the terminal...and then we missed the bus in the terminal haha...got home at like one o clock from Panama...jeez. But it was a really great day!
And this week we had zone conference in Chorrera...hence the email on Friday...but i`ll writing this coming Tuesday as well. oh and yes i bought a camera...and shoes...haha thanks a ton for that. Sorry for spending your money ;)
guess what...Elder Johnson from my high school is in my zone!!! Hes so awesome and such a good missionary! He just got here from the islands of San Blas...i`m kind of jealous haha wouldn`t mind going there. He`s a super good missionary and i`m really excited to finally be in the same zone as him!
Sounds like Sun Valley is a blast...think about me while your all biking haha. No worries...i`d rather be here preaching the Gospel. We had a really cool finding experience this week. We were contacting a neighborhood looking for familes and we saw this kid in a wheelchair outside with his family. The kid`s name is Guillermo Medina...he was assalted four months ago by gangsters here in Santiago and left for dead. He was in a coma for 27 days and finally came out. He has a huge dent in his cranium where they knocked him out...it`s really hard to see. Hes 21...used to be a bigtime futbol player and only had two months left until he graduated from the university...it was such a blessing to be able to teach him about the resurrection and that we will someday have a perfect body...really awesome experience. We`re going to visit him tonight.
Another incredible experience...the Salinas family (our recent converts) are having some serious economic problems. So we talked to our ward mission leader and he had us use the offerings of the fast to pay for their food. We also told a member in our branch about it and he gave us a months supply of rice for them. and for a family of investigators that is also struggling...the Pardo family. It was amazing! After going shopping with them on monday we got home and said a prayer of thanks for what we had seen...it was such a powerful experience.
Were working with the pardo family on the word of wisdom (the husband, Felipe, drinks) so that they can be baptized in september. I don`t think ill be here to see it but i would be really happy if they were baptized!
Well fam...that`s all for this week. August is coming to an end...life is good...i love being a missionary! The church is true...i`m really studying the book of mormon right now and i`ve been praying to know that it`s true to strengthen the testimony that i have...and every time i do it i receive an answer in one way or another. I love you all!
Mucho love,
Elder Tanner
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