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| Me, Ayoleth's son Chris, and Elder Roney |
Familia y Amigos,
How is everyone doing? I hope
everyone enjoyed their Valentine’s Day! I totally forgot about it until
it was actually Valentine’s Day and then I remembered. But I hope
everyone is doing super well!
Anyway not much really happened this
week, it was actually kind of a rough week. We have had a hard time finding
people here in our area. We find some super awesome families who have
already been to church 2 times, and a bunch of other people who are ready to be
baptized, but they always live in the area of the other Elders here in
Bluefields. So we turn them over to them and they get to work with them.
We haven’t really been finding a ton of people in our area and our
investigators aren’t doing so hot.
This Sunday as we went to get each one
of our investigators for church, but as hard as we tried, nobody would
come. Everyone pulled the classic Nica excuses, about how they had to
wash the clothes, cook, and the classic, ¨voy a llegar¨ (I’m coming). But
none of the people ended up coming. Pretty much all of the people that we
were teaching just didn’t want anything, which means a lot of our hard work
with the people went down the drain.
Anyway, when we got to the church we
had 8 new people there. A member had woken up early and walked from her
house to a part of our Area that we didn’t know existed and brought 7
people. Another family where all
the members weren’t baptized also just showed up. We were super grateful
for the member and knew that it was definitely Heavenly Father’s hand in our
work here. These are the people that our Heavenly Father wants us to
teach, so we are going to teach them.
After church we went and put fechas (baptismal
dates) with a couple of them, one of them was super pilas (ready) and could
maybe be ready to be baptized this Saturday, as she has been to church 3 times
and is just lacking a little bit of the teaching. So we will see what
happens with her.
Ayoleth is still waiting on some
papers for the marriage, and it is a super complicated situation so who knows
when she will get baptized. She is super ready, reading the Book of
Mormon everyday, but the whole marriage situation is really messing things up.
I wanted to share a quote with you
all that my mom sent me a couple weeks ago that has helped me this week and
might help you all. It is from Richard G. Scott, and it says, “Just when
all seems to be going right, challenges often come in multiple doses applied
simultaneously. When those trials are not consequences of disobedience,
they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more (see
Proverbs 3:11-12). He therefore gives you experiences that stimulate
growth, understanding and compassion which polish you for your everlasting
benefit.”
Other than that, not much is
happening. Cambios are this week so I could have a new companion the next
time I talk to you guys! I’ll let you all know what is going down.
And if you see the McDonalds charge on the Card in Managua, it probably means
that I had cambios (which is really unlikely) but who knows! Anything
could happen! Have a great week!
Love,
Elder Hanson
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| Elder Roney at a cool cafe we found to eat at in our area |
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