easter down here is a lot different than it is in utah at least. since everyone here is super christian everyone celebrates "semana santa." so like holy friday and all that stuff. it actually turned into a ghostown around here, there was no on in the streets at all! i`m guessing everyone just took the week to go traveling and whatnot. almost every business place was closed, and they even suspended the sale of alcohol from like thursday to sunday or something like that. i remember last year in colòn the same thing happened, everyone just left and there was nothing to do. that`s about how it was here. we were blessed enough to have some more baptisms so we still had things to do, but i imagine that if we wouldn`t have had them we wouldn`t have done a lot. all in all it was a pretty quiet week, but at least we had that :) church was actually normal. i would have thought that they would have done something special, but they didn`t i guess. a couple just got sealed in the temple so they had cake, but that was about it haha.
as far as marilyn`s parents go, not a lot has happened actually. we went by a few days later and marilyn told us that like the day before her mom was feeling sick and said that she felt like these were her last days, and now that she saw her daughter get baptized she`s content. it`s weird though cause she never really wants to talk to us. she`s nice and all and says hi and chats, but never wants to sit down and talk to us, she always just says she`s busy or something. the same thing with the dad. but i think since marilyn has such a strong testimony she`ll be able to talk to them. they definitely won`t progress as fast as she did, but little by little :)
i definitely agree with dad on that missions are meant specifically for each missionary. to be honest i wasn`t the most excited when i got panamà, for a lot of things like the heat and the food and the language and whatnot, but now i feel like this is my mission and i wouldn`t trade it for any other one. yeah it`s hard, but i love it. i still haven`t come to love the heat, but everything else yeah haha. i know there`s things here that i wouldn`t have been able to learn in other places. actually i was just talking about this with a family this week. they`re actually really cool. we met them last change with my last comp, and at first it was only the mom that went, but the husband and their two girls no. the husband always said he just didn`t feel worthy cause of things he`s done, so he didn`t want to go, but she always wanted to be sealed to him in the temple. so we worked with them for awhile, and the daughters started going, and finally the husband too, and now they`re super active and the husband just got ordained a priest and has a calling with the young men, and the mom is going to the temple to do baptisms for the first time. just yesterday i was talking with him at church, and he was just saying how much he loves it. how when the block ends he doesn`t even want to leave cause he likes learning and he feels important and he just really likes it. they`re super cool. but back to the missions are tailored topic haha, we were talking about trials and stuff with them, and how sometimes God doesn`t really give us exactly what we want, but he does give us what we need. she shared a story with us about how that happened once, and it was just really cool. i know this mission was and is for me, and i`m super grateful for all the things i`ve learned :)
conference i will be able to watch, but in a different area...i got told this morning i have changes, and i`m pretty bummed. i really really like this area, and with all the success we`ve had it`s gonna make it super hard to leave. i`ve made some really good friends here, so i don`t want to go. i don`t think i`ve ever not wanted to leave an area this bad. but oh well, who knows what the Lord has in store for me? time sure has flown by though, i didn`t even realize that it was six months ago since the last one! that`s crazy! honestly i keep getting closer and closer to choosing october 24th as my go home date, which would mean i have less than 7 months left! super nuts!
soccer is pretty big down here. they`re playing right now for the qualifiers for the world cup, and i guess the team this year is one of the best. everyone has the jerseys and everything and it`s just a big deal. i don`t know if they`ve never made it before or something, but it`s important i guess haha.
well to be completely honest this was a super quiet week, not a lot happened. and i imagine this week will be more of the same, with changes and conference and everything. i never really liked conference before to be honest, and i`ve only seen it once on the mission, but i love it now, so i`m pumped :) i`ll be sure to remember grandpa, i hope everything goes well! and good luck to lyce too, it`s gonna be awesome! i hope everyone has an awesome week, and we`ll talk soon!
much love,
elder paskett
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