Family!
Yes, Elder Valenzuela is from Peru...but everyone thinks he`s from Venezuela because of his name. He`s a super awesome missionary! And we`re both zone leaders here in Chorrera. We came into the mission on the same day, so we`ll be leaving together (obviously). He`s got a good spirit and we`ve been working really hard. It makes me feel kinda bad that Matt`s had some tough, lazy missionaries. We`ve got a couple of those in our zone. We went to Panama City twice this week for meetings but this coming week should be more or less normal. Panama is currently celebrating `Carnavales`...the most wicked party that there is on the western hemisphere. What a disater. Elder Valenzuela and I were walking on the street the other day and this drunk guy came walking up to us, stopped for a moment, and then just started puking in the street! What a sight! He was heaving super hard...i guess that`s what we call `true happiness`. Yeah it`s pretty nasty here...but we`ve kept out of any dangerous spots and we`ve avoided the water (the tradition during this time is soak people on the street with buckets of water).
This week we`ve had some really great experiences this week. We`re working a lot with the familia Serrano (a member family that I worked a lot with in Santiago!) They are an incredible family and they are giving us lots of references! We talk Hermana Serrano`s neice, Elizabeth, and her son, Abraham. We`re probably going to invite them to be baptized when we go visit them on Wednesday. Elizabeth read the introduction of the Book of Mormon and said afterwards that she really had a strong desire to keep reading. She said she felt really peaceful when she reads it. The problem is her mom...she`s super catholic and critisizes her for investigating the church. She`s a really great investigator though.
Yesterday we had a really good experience as well. We were working in the afternoon and it was SUPER hot! Nobody really seemed that interested but we met this guy who was reading the paper outside of his house, Hermano Abrego. He let us in even though he said he was Catholic and had his own views (we had to insist a little bit ;))...and we invited his family, his wife and two daughters, to listen. The paid a lot of attention during the lesson and when we described the First Vision the spirit was really strong. the mom said she would have questions for us on Friday when we return! Awesome family!
I`m reading right now in Alma, and this morning I read about when Ammon was teaching Lamoni. Noticed that he really teaches him according to his needs and he serves him to gain his confidence. Hopefully i`ll be able to improve teaching to get to be more like him. I really do love teaching people. It`s super fun! I wish I had more time to be here in the mission with these great people but God only gives us two years here...but he knows what`s best! We`ve been working hard these past few days...i`ve been getting home completely dead and it`s a great feeling! Saturday we fasted but we realized that we didn`t have lunch on Sunday, oops. So we ended up eating corn flakes and gatorade in the house to break the fast. But all in all it`s been a great week.
I love you all! Send Matt Jackson my love and tell him to keep pushing. The standard of the mission panama is `Forever Strong`! The church is true!
Elder Henrie
Mom!
I hope trek planning is going well. Honestly I don`t have any good ideas for it. If you want it to be really tough...you can have them all be missionaries for three days! Haha...wow you`re right i do put `haha` like every line on the emails eh? Oh well...mom my companion is a stud! He`s super obedient and hard working. This morning was super funny. We woke up super tired (as usual) at 6 30...and he`s like `6 30 already?! I`ve been waiting forever!! Let`s do our exercises!!` He`s great.
Tell Bry hello for me...and if he misses his mission, let him know that Panama is the world`s best mission so he doesn`t really know what he missed out on haha!
Love you mom!!
Elder Henrie
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