"Didn't even realize this week is my one year mark."

Hey,

This week was pretty solid. We had two baptisms on Saturday. Yet again stressful having to find baptism clothes, but we got them in time. We baptised Jusmery and Anbar who are the wife and daughter of a member who just moved here from Venezuela.

I'm starting to like my area a little more. The picture with the tractor is in probably my favorite part that's just dirt roads and these little tin houses back in the forest. We don't do a lot of work there, but we walk through it most days and part of the road washed away from the bucco rain we had this week.

Also, one morning I woke up early and took the trash out, and there were chickens everywhere. And I remembered back in Carti I used to wake Elder Ricks up by lighting a fire in a pot and filling the house with smoke and yelling. It was hilarious. So I started catching the chickens and bringing them in the house I had like four in there and I was gonna throw one on Elder Duron but they starting pooping and freaking out so I let them out. Gonna try again this week.

And we found lots of Kunas this week! We started teaching a Mu and her daughter who are from Mulatupu. She doesn't speak spanish but the daughter does, but they love speaking dule with us so I try to speak mostly that. They said they want to come to church with us but I called them yesterday morning and they said they were too tired...haha. Our church does start at 8 so that makes it difficult. And we've got another family from Mammitupu and Atchudup weve taught a couple of times.

I'm kinda figuring out how to be District Leader now. We had a district meeting this week and I made pancakes then we talked about the scriptures and teaching people and what not. I'ts not as hard as I thought.

My spiritual thought for this week is about service. Last week we talked to a guy and set an appointment to visit him yesterday. But when we went he was busy working on his patio, and said he´d be busy cleaning up later. So we asked him if we could help and he said if we wanted to we could. So we came back later and helped him clean everything up then he let us teach him and his wife. She had so many questions we basically taught her all like 5 lessons. And they were both super stoked when we told them about General conference and they want to come next week. So basically I predict that they'll be baptised in the next three weeks, and we probably wouldn't have been able to visit them for a while if we hadn't offered to help. So just sweeping their patio opened the door for them to listen to us and it was solid.

Friends from Tikantiki. Teobaldo is in Panama to translate general conference into Kuna.

Also bad news, my best friend out here Elder Aycock had to go home this week for the second time for medical reasons. Probably some infection he got from the island. But I got to hang out with him the day before he left because both our comps had to go to migrations in the city. He´ll probably be back.

Didn't even realize this week is my one year mark. I've been counting down to when I could get back to Kuna Yala. I'm going for two years from now, starting today. But I guess I'm supposed to burn a shirt. So I shall do such.

Love you all!

Elder Green

Card from Kate

My sweat line