Week 92 (Feb. 19, 2018)

NOTE:  Jayden's travel plans to come home were received this week.  He will be returning April 26th at 7pm.

This week was solid. 

Carnival ended. we had some fun last Monday with that. We filled up a ton of water balloons and waged war with the neighbor kids and their parents for a couple of hours. We got pretty wet haha! 

On Tuesday we did a service project with the bishop. We dug a 6 foot deep hole for a septic tank. The scars are still there from the blisters, but it was a good time talking to the bishop and the ward members. They also gave us breakfast and lunch. 

On Friday we had divisions. I got to stay in my area and teach. We taught a few lessons but the day overall was pretty boring. We did get fed really well though. 2 investigators gave us food, as well as 2 members gave us food. We finished the day as full as possible. I think they are trying to get me fat here. 

On Sunday we had an area conference. I started the day off eating a solid breakfast. A huge bowl of cereal and milk. Just like last year. Then we went to the conference. It was every stake in central america watching a broadcast from Salt Lake. We heard from the area 70, Elder Craig Christensen of the presidency of the 70, as well as Elder Cook of the Quorum of the 12. Elder Christensen speaks incredibly well in Spanish, but Elder Cook had to use a translator. It was a solid conference. They all talked about how we could be better leaders in the church and how we need to fulfill our callings in the way that we have been asked to. Which is a huge problem here in panama. 

After the conference we had a baptismal service. We were able to baptize 7 people yesterday. It was great. We have been teaching this family for a month now and they were very prepared to be baptized. We are now hoping to continue talking to this family and have even more who live there be baptized. They are a great family! 

After the baptism we went to some recent converts who bought a cake for my birthday. This family is legit!! So we celebrated that and that was our day! 7 baptisms and a birthday! Couldn't have asked for anything better!!! 

Anyway that's it for the week!! Love and miss you all!! Thanks for the birthday wishes!! 

Elder Hamblin