Well I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and has a Happy New Year this upcoming weekend!
This past week was a fun one for sure! We had a multi Zone Christmas party with President Ward which was pretty fun. Each of the zones came up with a few skits and then did them during the party which was pretty funny. And then we just played some games, ate some food and read Luke 2.
This week Elder Wade and I went in a few parts of our area that we´d never been to before. The areas were super rich, probably the most rich parts I’ve been in since I’ve been here in Panama. But, unfortunately we didn´t have much luck in those areas. I´ve learned that most of the people who have been prepared and are ready to listen to the message of the gospel are those that don´t have much. They´re more humble and a lot of times are looking for something to make their lives better. And we as missionaries have that opportunity to bring a better life to them. I love it!
This week I also started reading Jesus the Christ! Wow that book is amazing! I’ve learned so much from the little bit that I’ve read so far and it´s answered a bunch of questions that I’ve had. It´s so cool! If anyone who is reading this hasn´t read that book yet I encourage you to do so. It´s an awesome book!
So who knew that people celebrate Christmas with fireworks?? Well I sure didn’t haha until Christmas Eve! Ha our neighbors were blasting off fireworks and blaring music until about 4 in the morning! Ha needless to say we didn´t sleep much that night but it´s ok haha. It´s funny to see the difference in how people celebrate holidays. Ha I wonder how new years is gonna be haha.
Christmas was awesome!! That morning we went and had breakfast at the house of some of the members in our ward. I didn´t really know the family to well before we went but we all had a fun time. I got to talk to my family which was awesome!! Also our cosineta cooked us a huge dinner that night. She bought like a 24 lb turkey, a ham and a pork leg and then we had potato salad and a bunch of cake and cookies and all that kind of stuff. Oh and rice, of course haha. It was super good haha I ate so much!
Thank you all for everything!
I love you all!
Elder Westwood
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