Week 14

Well, this week I got some flip flops, because everyone here has a pair, and oh man they are amazing! It’s so nice to just be able to walk around in the open air on the way to service or on Pday. Seriously amaaaaaaazing.

This week, we had a ton of service. We had two days with more than 3 hours of service, one was cleaning a less actives house, and the other was a national Panama stake service day thing. It was cool, we cleaned this school. It was full of trash, was disgusting.

Anyway, teaching is going okay. We are continuing to go with less actives and members, and we are starting to see results right away! Usually, church attendance is about 90 to 95, and this week was 110, with a ton of less actives and an investigator came too! Was awesome. We are teaching now five investigators, and we have a FHE with two of them on Tuesday, so that will hopefully go really well. We are probably going to show the Joseph Smith prophet of the restoration movie.

We also have an investigator with a baptism date! Nov 1. Hopefully we can stick with it.

Oh, and a little fact that I learned this week: Nephi and his family crossed the Indian Ocean and landed on the western side of South America. I did not know that. I always assumed they came across the Atlantic and landed on the Eastern side.  I learned it in Jesus the Christ. That book is incredible. It teaches so much, and has a billion references to scriptures. I am going to read it once, then read it again going through all the references to scriptures.

We are also trying to get our investigators married, and we are really trying to stress the importance of the family, and are reading the Family a Proclamation with them. And this week, on Wednesday, I think I can go on divisions with a kid who is preparing to serve a mission, as my comp has a district leader meeting in the temple on Wednesday. This week, it was a ton of trying to meet everyone, and running around and asking people if they know where other people live. We went to a family’s house, and asked them if they knew where three sisters lived, they said that they used to live at their house. We asked where they live now, and they said that they didn’t know, because they had not come home for 2 days. So apparently they moved.

On Sunday night, there were a ton of gunshots about 5 minutes after we had walked through it. Was really freaky. And there were a ton of police, so that was interesting to see. Oh, and something kinda cool about Panama is the TV. In the states, we have all these different channels, FOX, ABC, and CNN. In Panama, it’s basically just one, its TVN. And soap operas are incredibly popular here. It’s the primetime TV program. Anyway, I hope you all have a great and blessed week!

Con Amor, 

Elder Berg