Yesterday I had the pleasure of participating in the confirmation of Josue. Elder Rose said the actual prayer and Horacio also participated. The family of Josue showed up as well. His father has been inactive for many years, and his mom is not a member. It has been nice to see the dad of Josue showing interest again in the church. Both of his parents and his hilarious grandmother actively participated in the lessons while we were teaching Josue.
His mother has expressed her desire to be baptized several times but is having trouble feeling like she is ready. We will now begin teaching Josue the new member lessons and continuing to help his family as well.
We have been seeing some intense protesting here recently from the kunas and the teachers here. From what I could gather, the teachers have not been getting paid lately, and it is causing problems. They blocked off anyone from crossing the only bridge to the mainland (where the school is). Luckily the protest did not last through Sunday because the church is on the other side too!
A group of kids took advantage of the absence of people on the other side to sneak across in a canoe and steal all of the cookies from the school. I got a good laugh out of that.
The mom of Ibeth died Saturday, so Ibeth was devastated. They left early this morning heading for Panama and will not be back until Thursday or Friday to visit family and see the burial. My companion and I came to the realization that we will be figuring out how to bucket wash our clothes in her absence. It should not be too hard to do.
Note to mom) I am not sure if the package came or not. I will have to check when we get back to the city.
I love you. Take care.
Elder Whiting
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