Familia y amigos,
How is everyone doing? Things
are going well here, and as you can see from the title I’m still out here in
Bluefields. It will be my 4th change here, so at the end of this change
I’ll have like 6 months in total in the area! My companion is still Elder
Passey, so we will be continuing to work hard and try to get as many people to
the waters of baptism here in these next 6 weeks.
First of all I wanted to give another
quick B day shoutout to Owen, Riley, and Maddy! I hope all of you guys
had great birthdays, and I especially hope Owen is feeling older like he
thought would happen.
Not much really happened this week, it
was kind of a slow one. On Tuesday we luckily got the changes call a
little early. They called us at 10:30am instead of 1 pm. They told
us that just Elder Rodriguez would be having changes so we sent him off in the
panga at 3. We just got to work after that. On Tuesday one of our
investigators with word of wisdom problems relapsed so that was a little hard.
We set a new baptism goal date for the 30th for her.
On Wednesday it was just another day
of hard work. This week was the “week of family” here in Central America,
that was put on by the area presidency. Every night there was an activity
in the church. It was kind of sad because each of the members was
supposed to find a family or a friend to bring to the activities. Nobody
really showed up which was sad.
On Thursday the new Elder came, his
name is Elder Hernandez from Guatemala. It isn’t my trainer Elder Herndandez,
but he seems like a cool guy. Him and Elder Soifua started working hard
so we will see what ends up happening there. On Thursday our other
investigator with word of wisdom problems relapsed, so he got moved to the 30th
too. We are changing up a couple things to verify better and we are
working hard with them, please keep them in your prayers.
Nothing went down on Friday, and on
Saturday the other Elders had a baptism. Bluefields has been really short
on water so we couldn’t fill up the pila (font). It was like 12 inches
high, and we had no idea what to do. So we just decided to baptize the
person in what we had. He had to have him sit down, the person baptizing
was on his knees, and then we just laid him flat. He went completely
under so it all worked out. They also had a cool cultural night here,
where people did some acts, danced and stuff. Nobody showed up which was
sad again but we had some investigators come.
On Sunday the rain started (marking
the beginning of the wet season in Nicaragua), which is going to make the work
here a little harder, but I know the Lord will bless us.
I didn’t have my camera really with
me this week, and I was dumb and forgot it for the cultural night.
Another Elder has photos that I’ll send next week. I love you all, and I
hope you all have a great week! Everyone go and read Mosiah 7:33, its a
good one!
Mosiah 7:33 “But if ye will turn to the Lord with full purpose of heart, and
put your trust in him, and serve him with all diligence of mind, if ye do this,
he will, according to his own will and pleasure, deliver you out of bondage.”
Love,
Elder Hanson
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