November 26, 2012

Hola Familia i hope thanksgiving was great. We did not do anything for it here.  They did have a typical day in panama, not sure what they celebrate but lots of Panamanian food.  It was not my favorite, it was the first time that I tried real Panamanian food.  I’m sure black Friday was crazy.  I was just telling my companion how crazy people are in the states.  Well I hope I will stay  in my same area for Christmas.  It has been three changes, so not sure yet.  This week was really good.   We struggle to get our investigators to come to church for only 1 hour and for some reason it’s really difficult for them.   We found more investigators to teach and one family that lives across the street from the church and doesn’t know anything about our church.  They said it would be no problem to attend church so we will see how that goes ha ha.  My comp has been teaching me the lessons in Spanish, and it has helped so much because sometimes I only share my testimony. We are going to work really hard so that we can have progressing investigators.  Most of them are old. I don’t think they will progress ha. But funny story, so we contacted a less active old man that is blind and he lives with his mom that is 91 and 2 sisters one can’t speak. Not sure what you call it but she is special, and the other sister has Alzheimer’s.   Anyway so we sang a hymn and the sister that has Alzheimer’s hit my comp 2 times.  I was laughing so hard and I didn’t know what to do, so as we were saying bye she pushed me off her porch and the mom that is 91 was yelling at her.  Oh man lots of crazy stories and of course the mom that is 91 is in perfect condition, remembers everything and can walk, speak and is in good health.  I think the lord guides me to the older people because we have a few other investigators that are over the age of 70.  Its hard to move away from them when we don’t see them progressing but I know there are others waiting for me to teach them.  I’m so grateful for everything that I have and I hope  you all have a better week.  love ya lots Hermana Ericson