Elder Dalton David: Getting to visit the beautiful city of David!

So this week starting off was a little difficult being that it was still the time of carnivals up until Wednesday which means there was literally no one in there houses. It was basically like labor day weekend for us in the States. Well everyone here either goes to Panama City or to the beach or to a city called Chitre where they have a big party for 3 days straight. It's funny to because everyone tells me a bunch of hippy gringos always travel here to go to that party. That made me laugh because I know its true.

This week we had a zone conference with all the zones here in the interior, because we are so far away from the city, me being the furthest. Elder Duncan was coming to talk to us who is the 70's, who presides over all of Central America.

On Wednesday morning we had to travel to Concepcion central for a meeting and also had to stay the night because the Zone conference was held in DAVID about another hour away. That's right, its about time I'm going to David, haha, everyone was making jokes about it.

Well Wednesday night we had a dinner with a familia from Guatemala, p.s. Guatemalans are the shortest little cute people every, haha. And they were super awesome! Just a really humble family that has a huge love for the gospel. We sat on the floor as we ate an amazing dish from Guatemala. Every day here its a humbling experience seeing that people don't need all this cool stuff to live with. They have the gospel of Jesus Christ and that fills the gap of any cool toys. Never thought I would say this and I'm eating my words what I always told Leslie Julian, haha.

That night we slept in the house of the Elders in Bugaba Central who have a few other mattresses. Also I want to inform you I had my first shower with warm water in MONTHS that night!! haha. They have a electric shower head with a water heater that does work. Great waist of 30 minutes.. haha. Kidding, more like 15.

So the conference we had was really amazing. He answered so many questions we all had and he gave a lot of advice on how to help out branches. My favorite thing Elder Duncan said is that here in the mission things are either good or their good. That definitely changes my perspective hearing that being in this new area. It is either good or good. After I got to see Elder Garcia!! He's actually training again and so we took a trainers picture with our trainees.

Well I have just a quick story to share this week. We had a lot of lessons fall through this week because people were ¨busy¨ but on Saturday we went to teach a girl named Aura and when we got to her house her dad was laying down in his hammock outside, her dad is also really Catholic. We asked him to get Aura for us and he just screams at the top of his lungs ¨ÄURA THE MORMONS ARE LOOKING FOR YOU¨. Just shocked my companion and I. We just looked at each other and could help but break out laughing. The look he gave us after was the best part. That made the day. Saturday morning I had a family call me saying that they were going to be busy and weren't going to be there for the lesson but the hno said that he needs to talk to us because he had questions stuck in his head for some reason. This was the husband of Diana who came to church with us last week. Well they promised to be at church the next day to talk. Sunday came around and 0 of the 7 people that said they would come show up to church. We even went to help this teenager come too and he was sleeping with his phone off so it was a disappointing day, but just like what Elder Duncan said, "Its either good or good." I know Heavenly Father was trying to teach me something this week with that. Also I was suppose to give a talk Sunday and I had it all prepared but they said never mind right before I spoke and had the wife of the branch president speak. I was totally okay with it, haha.

I hope you all have a good week!!

Elder David

1. Training picture with my trainer and our trainees