Saweet!
This week was awesome! My new comp is Elder Hine...from New Mexico. He`s been out in the mission about 20 months...i`m still here in la cabima and i`m lovin it. Turns out the sweet family we had found, family villalas, is in the interior right now...until next saturday haha. But we have found some incredible families in the last few days. Elder Hine is really awesome. He really pushes the work and always has a good positive spirit. He`s really a great missionary and i can tell this change is going to go by fast. Last Friday president ward came with us to visit one of the families we are teaching...la familia Soto-Góngora. SUCH a good family. And it was cool to teach with president there. We were going to teach the word of wisdom...but when we got there we decided it would be better to read the book of mormon.
We also found this family named Herrera. They are sweet! They have four kids...but usually just their three daughters are there with them. One of their older daughters is super catholic but when we taught them about the book of mormon they seemed really interested. We found them at about 8 20 at night. The promise of finding families at night has seriously worked every night this past week. We will have an entire day of heat, rejection, and lameness, and then find a great family when time is almost up. Diligence is super important here!
Last night we had kind of a tough experience. We found a good married couple and they were asking a lot of questions. They assist to a church called Hosanna, but they were pretty open. So we put a return appointment and got up to leave. As we walked out their aunt was there and she got on us for coming to their house. She said mormons werent welcome there and that they already know the word of god...and that we couldnt come back. All we could do was testify and leave. It almost made me mad, but my comp walked out calmly...really showing an example of christlike love for the people here. But no worries...we went and taught the familia herrera after and that brought my spirits up!!
Did i mention that elder Poli went to San Blas?! haha he was wanting to go there...san blas is kind of a paradise supposedly here in panama :) goin to chill on the islands baptizing kuna indians! He was way excited!
In the changes...president ward laid down the law...unfortunately it was something that needed to be done.. He stood up and said that if he caught anyone with a phone, headphones, ipods, etc. he would send them straight home. Pretty sad, but i really think that culture of the mission is changing a lot. Things are becoming a lot more spiritual and i think a lot of the missionaries are starting to understand better our purpose.
Well i love you all! I`m kinda disappointed that you bought a ´golden doodle´ when there`s plenty of strong pitbulls and rotweilers here in la cabima haha don`t know how well Gracie will stand her ground against them!! Hahaha sorry bad joke mom.
Love you guys! The church is true!
Elder Henrie
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