Our Journey thru Panama: One of THE BEST DAYS EVER!! again :)

Wow!!
I'd like to leave the blog at simply the word... WOW!!! But I'm sure that won't suffice you ;) or me :)
Today we were in for an adventure! We woke at 6.. caught a ride to Bugaba from Doug. Had a fascinating discussion about (brace yourself.. 9/11, Fema, camps, NWO, pharmasueticals, food, government, homeopathis.. and NO, I didn't initiate the conversation, and I kept my thoughts to a minimum..see, people DO change, hahaha) Anyway, we made it to Bugaba to a bus stop (one of the many).. We took the bus on in to David. While on the bus I played musical chairs for a minute and got 'settled in' infront of my girls. I ended up beside a Panamenos (Panamanian). He actually initiated the conversation with me in English. He was a young man that is currently attending the University in David. and learning English. We had a nice conversation and he took some English literature. The only thing is, is that he isn't fluent enough to comprehend a Bible Study in English, and so as I was getting his number to pass on to a local Spanish brother.. the bus made a turn and we had to literally jump off so we didn't have to pay to back-track and waste time :( so I nearly had to abandon him.. I'm convinced that if he really wants to study the Bible Jehovah will send someone to him.

Anyway, so we leave the bus and there are taxi's lined up at this particular bus stop.. So we get in a taxi and in the haste of everything I forget to ask the driver if he speaks English. So ignorantly I'm saying "izquerda" and "direcha" and "directa".. hahaha and come to find out he speaks REALLY good English :) I was soo embarrassed! Anyway, he said he didn't really read well in English so I just placed a small Spanish tract with him. But he totally knew how to get the the Kingdom Hall, but we never got the chance to ask how he knew.. like if he has been there before..or has family that goes.. etc.. But it was a pleasant experience.

Once at the Hall friends started piling in :) I have some pics from the Hall this morning, and our in front of it I have a pic of our group that was out and will post it on here shortly. But first I will post a pic of Aliah from last night. As I was blogging, or just finishing up last night, Aliah slept walked.. She came out of her room, looked me in the eye, grabbed a pineapple (pina) and layed down in a chair -snuggling with the pina, and went to sleep. It was soo funny to see!

Anyhow, service went very well. The missionary sister was out today (she was a few seconds late to the service meeting and so when the CO was assigning car groups he said the sis's name and I looked back sharply to her in surprise. The CO noticed and looked at me like "what's up" and I just said "I love her".. he said he would keep that in mind and so he put us in the same car group! Thank you Jehovah!!) So we all got in where we fit in.. There was 15 of us and only 3 vehicles :) It worked out great and everyone seemed to have a blast! 2 of the car groups went to the same roads to work them together, and I tell you, there is nothing like seeing so many happy, friendly people in one area. You know what I'm talking about! How ofter do people not in Jehovah's organization see more than 3 happy people that aren't laughing because they are on drugs or doing something inappropriate (that to them is funny)?! At least I don't see that happening. So I think in itself, just our presence is encouraging to people who don't know us. Long story short, it was aWeSoMe!! Most of us met for lunch at a different Chinese Restaurant. Would you believe it if I told you there was 10 of us and the lady serving us didn't write our orders down, didn't made separate checks..nothing, and she remembered it ALL!! And got our bills straight too!! Talk about a genius!! (at least in my book she is)

So lunch was great. So great that I cried a little.. It's the rounding out of our trip (the first day that we had to start saying some goodbyes, or 'see you later's'.. and a sister was talking about how great of a trip this is and has been and will be for my girls, and it all hit me at once the magnitude of our trip, and too that soon-ish we will be heading back to OOSA (USA..that's how they say it here, more like ew-sah). Moving on, so I don't cry again...

After lunch some of walked to the KH (because one of the friends with a vehicle had to leave us).. it was a nice walk.. Then we met for the afternoon servivce. There were so many of us and not enough vehicles that we did walking territory around the KH. I got to work with/walk with:) the CO's wife for about 45 mintues (that's all the time we had until we had to bus over to meet with our ride back to Volcan). Aliah got to work with the CO, I of course with his wife, Zoe with a single sis who just got back from the states, and Asa with a different sis from the states. We all had a blast getting to know each other, and you know how we all cut up.. It was great!!

Well the time came for us to have to leave the group, and things worked out to meet our ride in David so we didn't have to bus to Bugaba. It worked out beautifully!! We got to informal witness a little bit and it went very well :) and of course seems to be more fun than going door-to-door..

We made it home by 430p..quickly changed clothes and caught a ride over to some local friends house..who were sort of throwing a 'goodbye' get-togther for us. It was sooooooooo much fun!! We stayed there until 9, it was THAT much fun. I took several pics and so did my girls. They are helping me pick which pics to post..so bare with me please.. :)

Anyway, we are of course home now..and I just got all my girls in bed and so I thought I'd write on here.. That's the extent of our day..but the experiences and fun and love are beyond what I have the time and ability to write.. You will just have to come here yourself to get ther experience!!

All my love. Goodnight for now <3