Well I´m starting to get used to the new area. It reminds me a ton of Los Andes, my area before i went out to David. Ha i think the reason it reminds me of Los Andes is because of all of the hills. There are a TON! But it´s all good ha the people here are great!
This week Elder Amado of the Quorum of the 70 came to Panama to talk with us. It was so cool! That guy is so smart! ha we learned a ton from him, basically he just taught us how we can be better teachers and what we need to do to become better missionaries.
On Wednesday we were teaching one of our investigators that we found contacting last week. We were outside sitting on her front porch and there were people coming and going and little kids screaming everywhere and needless to say it was super hard to keep our attention. But anyways we were teaching her about the atonement and baptism and Elder Tzep was talking and while he was talking i looked away for a little bit and when i looked back I saw the tears building up in the eyes of the investigator. She began to cry and talk about how she wants to have a clean slate again, have everything bad that she´s done be erased. So we told her that the way she could have that is through baptism and she told us that she wanted to get baptized. I learned a lot during this lesson, like how if we get distracted for even a little bit who knows what we´ll miss. And also the power of the atonement and how much we need it in our life and the blessings that we receive from it.
Saturday we almost had a baptism. We had one planned for this lady and her son but she told us on Thursday that she had to work over the weekend so we decided to change it to next weekend. Well Saturday we went to lunch and the lady that we ate with asked us if we were still having a baptism because the daughter of the lady we were gonna baptise came over and said that her mom was gonna get baptized later that day. So we ran over and talked to the lady and she said that her work called her and said that she didn´t have to start until next weekend so we called the Zone Leaders and made plans to have the interview and we went to go find the keys to the chapel to fill the font but we couldn´t find them and the Zone Leaders weren´t able to come and in the end she decided that she just wanted to wait until another weekend when we´d be able to plan it better and be less stressed out. It was a bummer but she still wants to get baptized and that´s all that matters. Hopefully we´ll be able to do it soon!
I love the work here it´s awesome! The mission is amazing! thank you all for your support and prayers.
Elder Westwood
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