Hey!
To answer your questions…Yes, I’m in Barrio Cincuentenario 1 (the
ward.) It’s the second smallest area in the mission and I just found out the like
second most dangerous but whatever, just a lot of drinking and guns, I
guess. I don’t have a calling or have to play the piano, and we’ve only done a
little service. The only tools anyone has are machetes. We´ll probably do more
but haven’t had the opportunity yet. We did paint a house, this past week, and
it sounds like we might do that a lot.
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| Service Project |
Anyways, this week was Panamanian Mother’s Day, so naturally things got
crazy, as they would. Things were basically the same just more beer and music
and dancing in the street. It was kinda fun. Lasted from like the morning until
the night, so we didn’t get much done that day.
We have more baptismal dates! One Venezuelan family, that’s been going
to our ward for a bit, agreed to get baptized next month, but
we found out they’re not married so they’ll have to get that done before. And
our investigator with a date from last week also isn’t married to her “person,”
or whatever it’s called, but it doesn’t sound like she wants to, so that’s a
bummer. We do have two people who are married though! After a district meeting,
we decided to visit a family we’ve talked to and I invited two of our good
friends from the area above us, Elders Nellis and Mendoza, who are awesome, to
come along, and they said they’d be baptized. I didn’t speak a lot that lesson
but I said the invitation, terribly, and they said yes…so I’m stoked.
We also had a zone Christmas devotional at the chapel on the temple grounds
this week. The Carmack’s spoke then we watched a movie called "The Cokeville
Miracle". It’s super good and really makes you think about the angels we
always have protecting us. I got to see a couple of my friends from the MTC at
this, which was super fun. And we ate American food! Like meat, not just
chicken and rice, which we have for every meal, near about. And the temple is
sick. Literally in the middle of the jungle, halfway up a mountain.
So we get like the least amount of money, each month, of any mission, (I’m not sure that is true, but since
Braiden served in the #1 most expensive mission in the world, I figured we’d
have to make it up somewhere,) so I was trying to figure out how to make it
last. So naturally I got cereal because it’s delicious. But I got Cinnamon Toast
Crunch, my fav, and I ate it in a day. So that’s a bust. But then we went to
the Chino, across the street, and ramen there is only 40c each. So were like
heck yeah, but, the grocery store up the street has it for only 28c! So basically
we’re freaking rich and that’s all we eat when we’re not at a members house. Except
it’s hard because we only have one bowl and one fork in our house.
Also, crazy story. So there’s a huge graveyard next to Panama Viejo
that we have to cross sometimes to get to different houses. We were coming back
really late one night and I kept seeing flashing lights everywhere, so I’m like
this is sketch. But turns out they were just fireflies, which are sick. But
that’s not the crazy thing. I was shining my flashlight around and I saw a monster.
A giant rabbit-like thing ran across the graves. Like a beast sized rabbit, the size of a capybara. And they don’t have either of those animals here. I
was so scared. I’m kind of doubting myself now, but at the time I like could
not move and I had gnarly chills!
And yeah our house flooded like Saturday or something. I wasn’t surprised
because everything leaks in our house, like we can’t really turn off our
shower. But it was all over the floor so we mopped it up but it kept coming, so
we called the guy who owns the building and we got it taken care of. But now we
only have one bathroom.
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| Our flooded kitchen... |
We are one of two areas in the mission who has a washer. It’s on our
back balcony and just hooks up to a hose. But we do not have a dryer so we just
hang everything up to dry on ropes.
That’s it for this week! I’ll send some pictures when we’re at the church
and I’ll try to get some of me in them!
Love y’all!!
Elder Green
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