Elder Jakob Lutze: Semana 58 (Lemons!)

Buenas!!!

I hope you all enjoyed conference weekend! I know I did! Overall it was a great week in general, so let's get into it! Warning in advance, this will be long.

Wednesday we went to visit Obdulia! She lives suuuuuper far away. But, she's our recent convert and we love her, so we love visiting her! (Not to mention she gives us lemons.) Those lemons were, in fact, used to make Chicha (essentially juice) for our leadership party in the branch. It was a fun time!

Thursday we used the last of our money to go to Zone council in Chitre which is also suuuuuuuper far away. It was really fun tho! Fun to see the whole zone and to talk! Then the traveling AP's came to work with us for the day! And by "for the day" I mean for 3 hours. They weren't expecting such a long expensive trip to get back to Anton. But, nonetheless, it was an amazing 3 hours full of miracles! I went with Elder Tarbet, who in fact was one of my old Zone Leaders, and we are great friends. We did a TON of contacting and lots of catching up! Overall it was a really fun time!

Friday we got to teach our youngins! It was a super fun class this week! They are all learning lots! The highlight was definitely when we were making a list of good and bad things we can do, and one of our students said, and I quote "Robar el Chinito" which essentially translates to "Rob the little Chinese man."

The biggest highlight of the week was definitely conference! SO GOOD! I loved all the talks! But, something special happened Saturday. We ended up going to Penonomé to watch the evening session with one of the investigators I know and love (Blanca). It was a good time, and by the very end we were all feeling the spirit so strongly! We all shared our thoughts about conference, and the spirit was just getting stronger and stronger. By the time I shared, I invited Blanca to move her baptism date sooner. She said "I was gonna make it a surprise, but I want to get baptized on the 8th on my daughter's birthday." It was such a special moment, and all of us were so happy! It's been so special to see this whole family, one by one, come to God! And I'm so happy I'll get to be here for Blanca's baptism!

As for my spiritual thought, my Pday is ending, so I don't have time. I'm sorry! Next week I'll be sure to write something neat. Just go and watch President Nelson's conference talk again or for the first time! Think Celestial folks! Or in Spanish it would be more like "Think Heavenly" which is kind of a cool thought.

Anyways. Pray for my people of Antón please! Love you all! Have a great week everyone! Until Next week!

-E. Lutze