Elder Jakob Lutze: Semana 25 (Farewell Samaria!)

Well, as you can all guess from the title, I'm being transferred. My time here in Samaria was pretty dang good! I love the people here, and for sure will be sad to say goodbye. But I'm pretty excited about transfers!! I've spent all of my time in Panama here in San Miguelito, so I'm ready to go explore! I'll tell everyone about my week first, then I'll explain my new area, because it's pretty interesting.

My last week here was pretty good! We did quite a bit of exploring which was pretty fun. Samaria truly is just a maze. There's side paths everywhere. But I'd say by now I know this area better than the people who actually live here! Haha! We had a lot of lessons this week, and it was a good time!

Our members now absolutely love us. One of them keeps sending us anime clips and videos. It's pretty funny, except for the fact we can't watch it. She loves Demon Slayer and that's all she sends us which has my respect. It's a pretty fire anime!

We saw a dog on a roof. Not sure how it got up there, but it just about sums up the dogs here. They either try to murder us, or they just be straight chillin.

We saw some pretty cool decorations made from cans! All made from beer cans though. Haha! Which just about sums up Samaria!

We made Salchipapas this week because someone we are teaching gave us a massive bag of fries. Salchipapas are literally just French fries with meat and then sauce on top. It's super, super yummy. Definitely one of my favorite "Panamanian foods." Also this guy Christian is pretty funny. He's just straight from the hood. He's been to jail 3 times, and somehow got out all 3 times. We aren't sure how. But, he has changed his life quite a bit, and we'll see how things go with him.

We got a picture in a bar and a chicken fight arena. Chicken fights go crazy here!

The highlight this week is for sure Juan! I absolutely love this guy. He has already read over 100 pages of the Book of Mormon. He quit drinking coffee in like 4 days. And he walked to church by himself this week!! I'm so excited for him to be baptized! He's so amazing. I'm sad I won't get to be there with him, but I'm beyond happy. There are also some other pretty promising people that we are teaching!

Some other interesting things happened this week. Let's just say Samaria is Ghetto and we'll leave it at that.

Now of course, the moment everyone has been waiting for... I'm headed off to San Felix in David!! It's gonna be quite the wild adventure. It's a 10 hour bus ride to get there. Then I'll be 2 hours from the real world. But it's a really unique experience! It's an indigenous reserve. The people are called Nobes. It's just the jungle and mountain. The area is huge! And it's just kinda all over the place. But, I'll let you all know what it's like! Just pray for the area lots!! I'm really excited! But this is for sure gonna be rough! It do be in survival mode now.

Thanks for all your support! I love you all! I'll miss Samaria, but San Felix here I come!!!

-Elder Lutze