Week 26

Welp. It’s another year. And almost six months on the mission. It’s been incredibly fast. This is the fastest that time has gone by, since ever. It’s kinda incredible. And this week, well, we had a lot of parties. People in Panama love to party. Like, a lot. They have parties for just about anything. And as soon as it hit midnight here, the entire city just exploded into fireworks. It was awesome. We were up until 4am. We had a huge multi zone activity which was awesome too. We played a bunch of basketball, which felt incredibly weird using my hands in a sport. But it was a great time. And the day before New Year’s, we were hanging out with a bunch of elders and we were just watching the city´s fireworks. It was pretty great. This week we had a lot of food and celebrations. 

And also we got into contact with an old investigator, and she is really positive. Had a big family home evening this week too. So we did do some work during the holiday time, ha-ha. The hard part is that basically the entire country goes to the interior. Basically as if all the people that live in NYC went to Palmyra for two weeks. Basically everyone, it’s really creepy when there is no one outside in the streets. But something here that EVERYONE does for New Year is paint. Literally everyone. In about a week, about ninety percent of the people in our ward changed their paint jobs. It was crazy. 

Well, I hope you all have a wonderful week!!

Elder Berg