Que Xopa Mae!
Haha, ¨Que Pedo loco¨ is just a slang way to say what´s up, but it
literally means ¨what a fart¨ which is funny because my comp says it all
the time, so the other gringos and I always say it now to joke with him.
It´s fun to learn all the dumb slang sayings here because in English
they make no sense at all, so that´s why i start my letters like that,
just so ya know.
We are going to be moving into our new house this week and now we´re
only going to be living 2 missionaries in each house, as the other elders
found their own house. Now President Ward wants us to find another house
because he plans on putting 2 more sisters in our area so we´ll have 6
missionaries here in Penonome. The Panama mission is about to get 80 new
missionaries and 60 are going to be sisters, WOW! Usually we get around
5-15 new missionaries a month, and now they plan on putting 2 more missionaries in
every area. They said that there are around 10,000 new missionaries
going to the mission field in the next few months. Our mission is almost
going to double in size, & i wonder if they will split it into 2 missions
soon...
As for our investigators it was an empty sacrament meeting this Sunday,
as we didn´t have any investigators show up. We probably won´t have many people there
next week either because these upcoming weeks are holidays like Patriot Days and lots of other random holidays, and that means rough times for
missionary work. There are a few days coming up where we will not be allowed to leave our house because there will be too much partying and
stuff going on. Speaking of not leaving, did you guys see anything in
the news about Panama lately? The whole country was practically in civil
war against the government. There were like 50 deaths and tons of people injured
all over, but mostly in Colon. The government tried to pass some law that
would make lots of people lose their jobs so they rebelled and in a big
way. This whole week they had like the Army of Panama roaming the
streets trying to calm things down but they weren´t successful. There
were huge shoot outs, bombings, fires and all that good stuff. We
weren´t allowed to leave our house on Friday because of the rioting
here. It´s been crazy but i guess they solved it and got things settled
down. The government of Panama always seems to be in a fight against the people in some way.
But back to our investigators, Manuel is still reading the Book of
Mormon and loving it, but couldn´t come to church because of some extra
job he had to do - but he said he´ll come this week. Lebsi, this girl that
Segura and I found and taught is going to be baptized on
Saturday which is cool, i´m not the missionary teaching her anymore, but
it´s still cool because its my old area and i found her.
We
met and taught this drunk guy which was kind of a funny story. We went to
this house to have a family home evening with these members and he was
just standing outside and starting talking to us about how his wife left
him and that he wants to find God and quit drinking and all that stuff.
Well, the family let him come in for our family home evening lesson and
we focused the lesson towards him. I'm not sure how much he got out of
it or what he will remember but hopefully it helps him. Anyway we went
to visit him later in the week and when we get there his neighbors tell
us how the police came that day and they took him to jail because of
something he had done earlier and he had been hiding from the
authorities. We can´t do much now to help him but hopefully he remembers
our teachings to him.
One thing that is kinda miserable is that i'm sick right now, just
with a cold or something, not serious but it´s a pain and speaking in
spanish when you don´t have a voice is quite difficult haha. Ill be fine
but i never thought i would get a cold from rain when it's 75 degrees
outside, haha.
Here the only thing the Panamanians really do for Halloween is a lot of partying
and stuff like that. There are a few little neighborhoods where the kids go out to get candy but not very much, nothing like back at home. Elder
Kniff and I plan on dressing up a little in a missionary way, haven´t
decided how but we´ll do something. I wonder if we´ll be able to work
with all the partying and drinking...
I should be getting some packages and mail this Friday when the ZL´s
get back from their meeting in Panama City. Here out in the middle of nowhere the mail is very scarce so when it comes it´s more like Christmas,
haha. I can´t really think of anything that i need right now, but i´ll
let ya know.
Well i got to go, today isn't actually p-day for us this week, we´re
going to some beach on Friday as a zone, but we don´t have enough money right
now so we´re waiting till we get the money to do it, but i figured you guys might
freak out if i didn't write you till Friday haha - am i right?
I love you guys so much and i think about you and pray for you everyday! Thanks for everything and take care!
Love,
Elder Pfister
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