The ride to Rama on the panga...
Familia y amigos!
What is going down? I hope all is
going well and everyone is enjoying the nice cool weather! Things have been
going pretty well here in Bluefields, it is still really hot and we have been
sweating a lot. I don’t think
people realize how hot it is here. The investigators are doing great and we
have been seeing a little more success here!
This week was a little crazy. All
week we were working to lock down 2 baptisms here. One of them was an 80 year-old
woman, the mom of a member here in Bluefields. He lives and is working in
Panama, and he was super excited to hear that his mom was going to get
baptized. The other was the granddaughter of the first lady. The 80 year-old
woman was a reference here and when we first went to put a fecha (baptismal date) with her the
granddaughter wanted it too, so we prepared them both. Everything was
going really well, they got interviewed on Wednesday, and then we got a
call.
Wednesday night the Zone Leaders called
me and told me that me and my district would be having to go to the zone
meeting which was on Friday. That
meant we had to drop everything we had planned for Thursday and Friday.
We left Thursday morning on a panga to
Rama and then the long bus from Rama to Juigalpa. It was the usual ride,
super long and boring, and of course it was exhausting. We worked for 2
days there in the area in Juigalpa to help them find some people to
teach. They are lacking some people to teach so it was 2 days of straight
contacting, knocking doors, and such.
We had the zone meeting on Friday which
wasn’t too exciting. We just talked about our possibilities and then the Zone Leaders gave a lesson. It was all right. The APs were also there so I got to talk to Elder
Collado. Overall, the trip was exhausting with 10 missionaries
sleeping in a tiny house and then having to wake up at 3:00 am on Saturday to
catch the bus back to Rama and then the panga to Bluefields. The panga on
the way back didn’t have a cover and I didn’t have any sunscreen so I got super
sunburned and am in pain. It’s mostly my arms that hurt. Also, we didn’t really get to eat
anything on Saturday because the panga came in late and we had to rush to the
investigators houses for their baptisms. All I had to eat was like a half
of a loaf of bread on Saturday. Luckily
there weren’t any problems with the baptisms and they both happened.
On Sunday we were blessed to have 12
investigators in church, hard work really does pay off. I hope that all
of you have a wonderful week, and I love you all a ton! I can’t wait to
talk next Sunday!
Love,
Elder Hanson
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| Me and Elder Collado in the Zone Meeting |
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| Baptism |
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