12 Mar 2012

This week was another great week in the work down here in the sun haha. It’s been super hot lately ha the people say that this has been the hottest summer here they’ve ever seen. Ha it’s kinda weird to think that its summer here and winter there well pretty much spring I guess.

We had changes this week. Elder Goodfellow had changes and I found out that he went to an area called Colón and went up to be ZL which was sweet. Ha I was excited for him but the coolest thing about it is that he’s companions with my trainer, Elder Echeverría!! I was way excited to hear that haha I’m sure they’re doing great there and working hard.

My new companion is Elder Oliva from Honduras. I figured I’d have Latin comp after having two American comps back to back. He’s a cool guy though. He has just over a year in the mission and doesn’t know hardly any English which will be good for me because I can work on my Spanish and I’m going to help him with his English! Since we’ve been together we’ve worked really hard which is good so hopefully we’ll keep this up all change!

A couple of days ago we were teaching some investigators that we found when I was with Elder Goodfellow and we started talking about how the Gospel helps and blesses families. The mom started talking about how her sister-in-law got baptized into the church about 4 or 5 years ago and they said that she is like a completely different person now. Apparently she was a very hard person to get along with and not too many people liked her but since she’s joined the church she has changed completely and their whole family has noticed this change. It was so awesome to hear her tell this story and to see that she noticed how much joy that the church can bring to someone. I’m so grateful that I was born into the church and seen these blessings in my life and I now have the opportunity to invite others to have these same blessings and happiness in their lives.

I think this is going to be an interesting week as my first full week with Elder Oliva but it’s gonna be good. We’re gonna keep working hard and see the miracles the Lord has in store.

Thank you all for everything and all the love!
Elder Westwood