Wednesday, May 19, 2010

week of 5-17

Another milestone completed...purchasing parts for the car....everything takes work to get things done here....I have been in search for a fuel and oil filter for our car. Finally found a auto parts store that was reasonably priced. Turns out the owner is from the Corpus area in Texas, and speaks english...looking forward to some witnessing opportunities with him. He mentioned that he has been invited over to the Kingdom hall.....I told him to stock up on the parts I needed and that I would purchase them from him....Today went over to the Langan's house for visit....Steve and Adrianna Langan...he is from England and she is from Argentina...she just got baptized 3 weeks ago. She is conducting spanish lessons with Stephanie and the children. Today children lost interest and played Wii instead with Steve....Tomorrow we drive 2 hours to Puerto Armuellos to preach....beach community....we are planning our first visit to Panama beach....I will post some pictures

Okay so we are in rainy season it actually rained on us all day on Thursday in Puerto Armuellos so no beach trip.   The beach isn't anything to write home about anyway, so we will try another beach soon.  We did however get some accomplished in our ministry. I found a family from California who live in a upscale community in Puerto Armuellos (ex-executives of Chiquita Banana plantation use to live in this community).  The banana plantation have packed up and headed out since then. We did have a nice shopping stop on the way back between the Panama and Costa Rica border. Duty free items...some good deals to be found on clothing, liquor, and other items for house and car.

Friday spent day in Boquete...Stephanie found a lady selling bread in the street that use to study. She is originally from Cuba. She said she is interested in studying again. Friday night had family night with Gilby's we saw "Return to me". Ate pizza and had some upbuilding conversations.

Saturday - spent morning out in ministry till around noon time....didn't really find anyone in census work here. I was a little disappointed with Marcos cancelling our study this morning up in Cerra Punta.
We have a get together to go to this afternoon @ 3pm. There is a pioneer couple leaving the spanish congregation and the english congregation was invited. It is raining pretty hard right now here, so hopefully they have good cover to protect from rain...