26 Mar 2012

It rained this week! Ha I never thought I’d actually be excited to say that it rained here in Panama but this time I was. It’s been super hot lately ha it was nice because it cooled things down a little bit. But it also made the air even more humid so idk which is better haha.

This week was another good week down here. We worked a lot with the families that we found last Sunday. We were teaching one of the families on Thursday night and the mom started talking about the Book of Mormon. The time before we left them one so they could start reading it, we asked them if they would read 3 Nephi 11. Well they had all read the chapter and the mom actually read the chapter and then started reading from the beginning, including the introduction and all of the testimonies and was a couple of chapters in to 1 Nephi. She told us that she feels like Book of Mormon is true and she even started talking about the doctrines she learned while reading such as baptism, faith, and obedience. It was so awesome! They all are super positive and we’re hoping they’ll commit to being baptized here soon but first the parents have to get married so that might take a little time. But that’s alright as long as they get baptized!

This week we were riding our bikes to one of our appointments and one of the tires on my bike went flat. It was kind of frustrating because after that appointment we had to go all the way to the other end of our area which would have been like a 30-40 minute walk and a good chance that we would have missed our next appointment. So we went and taught our first appointment and the guy is way cool! we’ve only taught him a couple of times but he always has a ton of questions, he’d been taking the discussions about 10 years ago but then he stopped so there’s a lot of things that he’s forgotten and allot of things that he needs to have cleared up for him. Well we got done and he saw that my tire was flat so he told us to wait for a couple minutes and he walked in his house and came back out with a patch kit and fixed my tire! It was so cool and such a blessing!

I’m so excited for General Conference this weekend! It’s always awesome when you get to hear from the leaders of the church, especially the prophet and apostles! We’ve been inviting all of our investigators to come and check it out so hopefully they do!

Thank you all for everything! All your support and love!

Elder Westwood