Hi Family!
Couldn´t resist using a line from 1776 as my subject for this email seeing as it´s the season and all. Also, I hope it serves as a hint to those of you who may be slightly behind in your correspondence...not gonna mention names..you know who you are ,).
Speaking of correspondence, this week I got a flood of mail from fam and friends that dates back to MARCH. WHOA. That explains why I haven´t heard from a few people, I guess. I loved getting the ward newsletter especially. Good to hear what´s going on with everyone back in good ol´ NC 6th. Mom and Dad, please thank Lene for that one! Just to be clear, here´s the address that people should use when they send me letters:
Hermana Allison Brewster
Mision Panama
Carrasquilla, Entrega General A.P. 0834
Panama, Republica de Panama
That should clear up some of the confusion and ensure that I still have friends when I get home :).
So this was a pretty significant week. I had my last interview with President Madrigal before he returns home to Mexico with his wife this week. Even though he was only my president for 3 months, I learned so much from him and he said some really nice things during our interview. He´s a really good man. President and Sister Ward will arrive this week and I´ll meet them for the first time next week at our Zone Conference. It´s going to be weird having
an American President! I´m sure he´ll be great, though, and I´m looking forward to meeting him and his wife.
Last Tuesday was my comp´s birthday and we celebrated by having both lunch and dinner with a few ward members. My contribution was a cake, a birthday card and a Snickers bar (because she´s obsessed with them). It was lots of fun! I´m actually hoping I get to be here for a few more transfers so I´ll get to spend my bday here with these ward members. They really are special. But if this pattern of transfers continues, I´ll have been in 3 different places by that time. Ahhh! I wish I could just get used to one thing.
We´ve officially hit ¨winter time¨¨ in Panama, which means that it´s scorching hot in the morning and from noon onward we´re hit with a veritable flood. Right now it´s coming down pretty hard. I´m thinking the tiny umbrella I purchased won´t be sufficient because last night I was literally wringing out water from my skirt. Crazy weather!
I had a pretty interesting experience this week. there´s a family we´re teaching named la Familia Jimenez-Garcia. The wife is from Mexico and the husband is from Australia and they have a litle 4 year old who´s fluent in both Spanish and English. The parents speak Spanish and English too, but John, the Dad, mostly speaks English. I met them for the first time a few nights ago and I absolutely loved John´s Aussie Spanish :). Unfortunately I can´t imitate it here, but I will one day. Anywho, we dropped by their house to talk to them and possibly see about setting a baptismal date because theyve been investigating the church for a while. John´s read the Book of Mormon several times and I was really impressed with his knowledge of historical facts that back up what happened in the Book of Mormon. He and his wife insisted on taking us to dinner and we spent much of the time talking about his experiences with missionaries, the Book of Mormon and the church--mostly in English. The funny thing was it was now my turn to play the role of interpreter because I had to relay what was being said to my companion who looked a little perplexed by our conversation. We weren´t able to set a date yet but we´ve got an FHE planned with them tonight and I´m hoping that goes well. So far they are our most positive investigators. I´m praying for good things.
On a different note, I´ve run into a few backpackers this week from the U.S. They told me they were traveling around staying in hostels...sounds so familiar to me...hard to believe that was my life a year ago! Funny how things change, eh? Maybe I´ll do thatnext summer again ;)
All right, fam. Have fun at the cabin this week! Love you all and Happy 4th.
love,
Hna. Brewster
P.S. CONGRATS to Lara!
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