Familia y amigos,
How is everyone doing? I hope all is well back home.
Well not much really happened this week. It was just a week full of
finding new people, working with the people that we have, and getting soaked.
It has been raining a lot here recently and since we are on
the coast random storms just kind of show up and it pours. Supposedly in
the rainy season it is like this everyday all day for a couple months, so we
will see if I am here for that time! Before the mission I hated the rain
and getting wet, but now it’s just a part of life.
We’ve been working with a couple of our investigators and
should have a baptism this week. We had a super cool investigator who was
the mom of a returned missionary. We had a couple of really spiritual
lessons with her, but we had to drop her because she isn’t progressing a ton.
She was like our best investigator so we were kind of sad to let her go but we
prayed and felt like we had to do it. We just didn’t want her to become
an eternal investigator. Her time just isn’t now. We really gained
her confidence so when the time is right the next missionaries can come in and
finish things off.
I wanted tell you a little bit about her and share and experience
that we had with her this week. Her daughter is the returned missionary
who served in Honduras and of course she wanted her mom to get baptized right
when she got back. Her mom is a little hard but we saw some potential so
we decided to teach her. We were teaching the restoration with her, just
about the great apostasy and then the restoration. As I was reciting the
first vision, the spirit was super strong, and I finished it, and had the
feeling to just be quiet. The room was silent and the spirit just hit all
of us, like a brick wall out of nowhere. It was quiet for like 30 seconds
and the spirit just testified of the truthfulness of our message. I know
that Joseph Smith was and is a prophet of God and that he restored this church
here on the earth.
We found another family of 4 who we are working with and
they all went to church yesterday. We just showed up and they were all
there ready to go. They have a fecha (baptismal date) for the 4th of
April, so we are working hard for that.
On Saturday our baptism fell through, both of them actually.
One of the investigators wasn’t really ready, and although we easily could have
gotten her to do it, we didn’t want to force her because the sins of her not
going to church after would just fall on our heads. She should be getting
baptized here soon. The other possibility just kind of disappeared.
She supposedly went to a finca (country vacation house) (everyone and their
dogs here have fincas and just disappear) but she answered her phone and was
hiding from us. We went on a wild goose chase all over Bluefields looking
for her, but we couldn’t find her. We'll see what ends up happening with
her, and if she actually wants to get baptized.
The Lord blessed us on Sunday with 12 investigators in church
and we have 14 progressing right now. I don’t know if all of them will
get baptized, but that is the plan, and I have faith that they all can get
baptized.
I wanted to send a shout out to my dad this week, his
birthday is on Thursday. I hope all of you wish him a happy birthday and
I hope he has a great day! Love you lots dad! Happy Birthday to Nathan,
too!
This week will just be another week of finding and retaining
our investigator pool, I’ll let you all know what happens!
Have a great week and I love you all!
Love,
Elder Hanson
The photos here are from a lunch we had at a member’s house.
He cooked us this dish here called rondon. To make it they squeeze out
the cream from the coconut meat and turn it into a broth. Then they throw
in meat, usually seafood, and then serve it up with a bowl of rice. We
had some super delicious lobster and crab, and it was super good!
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