{A ReaLLy GooD MomENT For TheM}

Well...

Two marriages, three baptisms and confirmations, zone conference, and lots of work! It has been a gnarley week...we`ve had tons to do and really haven`t had a break. So we`re going to a sweet lake today in my old area...Barrio Centro. It should be sweet. The baptism went great! We went early in the morning to fill the font and went back at 6 30 to make sure all was ready, and the font was EMPTY! Oh man what a joke...we had shut it but apparently it has a slow leak, how convenient. So we were trying to fill up the font..during the baptismal service which made lots of noise, and we ended up baptizing them in shallow water. haha luckily Valentina and Oderays are really short, but José was a little more difficult. i baptized Valentina and Oderays´ brother came to baptize her and her husband. It ended up being a really good moment for them. And the confirmation yesterday went really well. the members were really happy for them and received them well.

On Thursday at zone conference i saw the sister missionaries who are in Santiago and they told me that the familia Salinas are going to the temple to be sealed on August 2! Haha happy birthday marsh! I am so excited. Elder Chevez was also their and we`re planning on going to their sealing! I`m really happy for them. I could see the familia Remice getting sealed in a year as well. They seem really interested in the temple! Things are definitely moving in the area. the members are excited and really willing to help us. That´s why all the missionaries want to come to Chorrera. It`s one of the stronger stakes in Panama and everyone helps out with missionary work.

Ok..Mothers Day! First off...happy mother`s day mom! I`m really excited to talk to all of you. It`s scares me that this will be the last phone call home because i feel like there is so much to do still! But i know that i just have to keep giving it everything i`ve got to finish happy and content. I think I will have to call around 6 00 pm Panama time because we have church in the morning and y`all have it in the afternoon. Not sure about Skype because it`s sunday and the internet might be closed. I`ll try to see if we can skype from a member`s house if one of them has a camera. If not i`ll just be calling by phone. But either way i`m excited to hear from you. I really do love you all. i always talk about you to my friends here in Panama. Its funny because whenever i see members from old areas they always ask me how my little sister is doing haha Libby`s a star in panama!

I honestly feel blessed to be a missionary. I`m glad that God has given me the strength to do what i know i need to do as a missionary. He`s given me so many good examples that I am able to use as a missionary to get better. I have so many good experiences every week that it`s hard to share them all but just know that i`m loving it...it`s much different than i had expected :)

Les amo!! hasta el domingo!

Elder Henrie

Mom!

i had to tell you about zone conference this week. we bought a hamster to use as an example in our teaching...to teach a point about fear. We asked the missionaries who was afraid of mice and than called one of them to stick their hand in the box with the ´mouse´ inside haha it was super funny. And then we pulled out the cute little hamster. The pet store was kind of surprised when we brought back the hamster telling them we didn`t want it anymore. Needless to say they didn`t give us our money back haha. it was great.

i love you mom!

enjoy the photos. I hope you like the pants i wore to baptize valentina. Jose was making fun of me in the bathroom because they are so short! Oh and i tried to eat the hamster but he ended up getting away...but the photos take forever to load and i`m out of time..