Ok so this week: On Tuesday we got to help paint a member's house and we were there all day moving stuff out, cleaning the walls, and painting the inside bright purple because that's what color the 5 year old picked out.
On Wednesday I woke up and my companion couldn't talk...there was literally no noise coming out of her mouth so we called the nurses and went on an adventure to the clinic and I had to do all of the talking and it got a little intense at times when he started talking medical but we made it out alive, with only a little case of strep throat and got the right medicine and went back home. We had a whole day planned but we werent allowed to leave the apartment until she wasn't contagious anymore so she slept it off all day and I got in some really good hours of personal study and attacked the area book which hadnt been touched in who knows how long. So we didn't get to go out for New Years but we did hear a lot of really loud fireworks and I saw a couple burning men out the window (New Years tradition in Panama is everyone makes these stuffed dummies out of who knows what and they burn them on New Years. We were so confused when all these giant dolls started showing up outside of people's houses last week.) So yay 2015!!
Super cool to think that I will spend all of 2015 as a missionary and it has already started off with some super awesome miracles! Miracles for this week-
1. So Hermana Duvy is the greatest investigator ever and yesterday she came to church without us having to pick her up. In our lesson with her on Sunday she asked if we needed to be baptized more than once and we were a little nervous how she would take it cause she is already baptized Catholic but we answered that we only need to be baptized once if it is done by the right authority and then she said oh you mean the priesthood? And then basically taught us a lesson about priesthood authority and told us that she really feels like getting baptized on the 17th is the right thing....she is a miracle.
2. We have this crazy investigator who is like the best member in our branch except he isn't a member. He hasn't been able to get baptized because he isn't married to his girlfriend but he can't marry her because he is married to this random woman in the United States. So this week he found some old papers from 2005 and I guess a divorce was filed but it didn't look like it was ever finalized so we tried to call on Friday but the office was already closed. Yesterday we fasted with him that everything would go smoothly this morning when we called and you know what?! HE'S BEEN DIVORCED SINCE 2007! We had a little dance party in the internet cafe and we are so pumped to start planning this wedding and get him baptized!!! Miracled. Also fasting totally works.
3. We were taking a taxi to a new investigator's house and we started chatting with the driver and it turns out that his sister is a member so he didn't even make us pay. Miracled.
Love you all so much and hope you have an amazing week!! Feliz año!!!
-Hermana Smith
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