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Ok Familia!

What`s up?! This week has been rad. Thanks for all the emails...oh guess what we killed some more mice this week. Me and Elder Poli were both going at it with brooms and i finally nailed it! It kinda exploded haha

I have a sweet experience to tell you all...we were contacting near the church at night and this lady named Carmen came to the door. We didn`t present ourselves right off...but we just asked her if she new a family around there...people seem more receptive after they have helped you find someone haha. Anyway we started talking about the church and she said she already was in a church and really didn`t seem receptive...but instead of moving on we started asking her questions and found out that her brother had committed suicide about a month earlier. So we sang her a hymn on her front porch and started talking about the plan of salvation. It`s amazing how she changed from being so unreceptive at the beginning to so interested at the end. We left a good spirit there.

Oh and yesterday on the bus we were with the two elders from Caimitillo and i told the bus driver to turn off the music so we could share a message. We shared some of what we believe and sang a hymn for them...really awesome day

Also...we`ve been working super hard to find families. And we managed to bring one to church on sunday. la familia estrada! Sweet familiy. We`re going to try to set a baptismal date for november. They are such an awesome family. Yesterday we were talking to the husband...Juan Carlos...and he said he really likes the church and he has prayed about it and felt like he received his answer that it is true. His family has changed a lot and he has really been prepared by God for this moment. And his wife, Vielci, works the night shift. She got home sunday morning and then went to church with us. ANd their daughter, Genesis, is way awesome and she understands really well. Genesis is 10 and they also have a 1 year old boy named john marco. AWESOME family!

Alcalde Diaz has been struggling a lot these last couple months. There were no baptisms in september and one in october...but we are doing our best. I still feel like i`m trying to figure things out here. It`s an awesome area though. We have a lot of new missionaries in our zone...so we have three trainers. They are really good missionaries. I love it here. It`s really different from my other areas...

hey so i`m really excited to wear the new shirts this week now that i`m at a year...super glad that i saved them! This year has gone by really fast. I need to improve a lot of things this year. I feel like the mission has changed me a lot but there are still a lot of things i need to do. I read a talk about the difference between sacrifice and consecration...about how a lot of missionaries think of it as a sacrifice to come here when really the blessings that are received out weigh the sacrifice a million to one. It has definitely been a good year and i`ve got twelve more awesome months ahead!

The church is true...i`m about to finish the book of mormon this week...really a good book.

Love you all!

Elder Henrie

Mom!

Hello there! My teeth are good i think...my gums around the one that i had surgery are receeding a bit but....what can ya do? I`m eating as healthy as possible in panama. And i did lose some weight in Santiago...and there are SOOOOOO many gnarley hills in Alcalde Diaz....i don`t really have a solid six pack anymore but i`m not really that fat. Elder Poli tells me i`m fat all the time but he doesn`t even know.

That`s sweet that you`re going on a field trip! Can you believe it`s halloween already?! Too bad it`s not really celebrated here in Panama haha i guess while we`re contacting people we`ll ask them for candy haha

The gospel is changing lives here and it`s sweet! Love you mom take care!

Elder Henrie