Dear Family,
Thank you for the letters, I'm doing great. We had water this entire week, but our shower is very weak so we need to shower mostly with a bucket, it's a good experience. My entire house it made out of concrete, carpet does not exist in Panama, except in the temple. It's either concrete or it's tile.
I go to a different chapel in this area a bit further from my other chapel in Chorrera, but it's a very nice chapel. I haven't seen to many members from my old ward, but I'm sure I will. I don't know when the next stake conference is, but I hope it's soon.
The only problem with the area is it's huge! It's so big there is no way I'll be able to touch the end of the area, I really don't know the end of the area exactly. If you look at a map there is the ''Carretera Panamericana'' my area starts at Guadalupe La Chorrera, Panama and every thing to the south of this road until you reach Antón Panama is my area. So it's about a 2 hour long bus ride, in a car it would be shorter.
This next week we are going to baptize a 14 year old son of a less active member. We are reactivating his family, and I hope in a few weeks we can baptize his Dad.
My companion is a convert, I believe he said he was baptized when he was 14 years old. His parent were baptized while he was on his mission. I thought the was really cool. I need to ask him what part of Lima he is from. He told me that they drink Inca Cola, I remember Mom saying she drank that when she was in Perú.
What a cool testimony Elder Uchdorf has about Joseph Smith. It doesn'tmatter where we are from because God loves us the same. The same story of Joseph Smith can touch the heart of anybody in the world. The true Church of Jesus Christ will not just touch one country or only a few people it will be taught to everybody in the world. I'm grateful for Joseph Smith and his testimony and I know he was a Prophet.
This last week I listened to the talk by President Eying ''A Priceless Heritage of Hope''. I really liked how he talked about the examples of his ancestors and what heritage they left him. I was thinking about Dad's bees and how the worker bees only live for a short time,and then die. So what motivates them to work so hard? It's the future bees that will need the honey, so the bees work so hard, not for themselves, but for their children. We need to be like the bees and ask ourselves, what are we leaving for our descendants and what heritage are we leaving. I know I have been blessed so much by what my family has done for me. Also I understand more and more the importance of the temples.
Love,
Elder Weston
