Winter has arrived!

This is looking out our front door.  When it rains it pours.  Our front yard is flooded every time.  I'm hoping it won't overflow and go into our house.  The title for this post is "Winter" has arrived.  In Spanish the word "invierno" translates to winter.  At least that is what I was taught.  What it means in Panama and many other Latin countries that don't get cold is that it is the rainy season.  

We have been told that in the rainy season it will rain every day.  Sometimes all day.  It hasn't rained every day yet but it has started to rain a few times a week.  The good part is, it gets a little cooler.  Sometimes right before it rains it is so humid.  But once it rains it's nice and fresh.  Everything is starting to get green.  Some of the trees that were just branches and you thought they were dead are now blossoming.  It is getting really green and beautiful.

We had a zone meeting this week.  I love seeing the other missionaries.  There are about 23 of us in our zone.  We meet about once a month.  I just love these missionaries.  I love hearing their stories.  They come from all over Latin America.  Most of the missionaries in our zone are from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.  When we get together they love to kid each other and joke around.

This is a picture of some of our missionaries in our zone.  This was a service project that they helped with in Chitre.

One of the things I love about Panama is that they love color, at least on their houses.