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| Luis' baptism |
Familia y Amigos,
How is it all going? I hope
everyone is doing well at home, things are going well for me here in la
Trinidad. I am doing well, I got the area down but right now we are just
working on getting some new investigators. We have found some cool people,
but the problem is just getting them to church. I am still trying to find
out the best way that I can get people to come to church here, so that has been
my struggle recently, but other than that things are going well.
This week went by super fast, and for
the majority of the time we were just contacting and trying to find some people
that will be willing to keep their commitments. Tuesday was a normal day
in my area so I just worked with Elder Salmeron.
On Wednesday I went and did divisions
with one of the Elders in my district. Their area is like a 20 minute
ride in mototaxi so I worked with an Elder named Elder De Leon. He is
from Guatemala, and he has a super cool conversion story. He was baptized
like a year ago and now he is here in the mission. He is a hard worker
and they have some cool people there in their area that are preparing for
baptism.
On Thursday we just worked again in
our area, still finding people. And then on Friday I had a nice
surprise. It was district meeting as normal, and Elder Kleiner told me
that he was going to be coming. I thought that it was going to be a chill
laid back District Meeting because the APs came last week, but it wasn’t.
I was there on time getting everything ready to start and next thing you know
President Russell and Sister Russell showed up. Definitely not
expected. I was prepared and everything so there weren’t any
problems. Who knows who will show up next week!
Saturday we had a baptism of this guy
named Luis. Elder Olsen and Salmeron were kind of teaching him.
They had dropped him because he was preparing for a baptism before, got
interviewed and everything but the day before his baptism he drank. So
they gave him another chance. But the day of his interview they showed
up, and he was drunk. So they dropped him. When I got there, I didn’t
know anything about him, or what had happened so I just put a fecha (baptismal
date) with him. We saw a big change of heart, and he ended up getting
baptized and confirmed. When we got to the church to baptize him there was nobody
there, and it was closed. Here in this Area we don’t have keys to the
church, so we had to call someone to open the church. Kind of sad that
nobody showed up. I ended up having to baptize him and then just finish
working in my wet clothes. We don’t really have time for extra excursions
to the house so it was a nice way to finish off the night.
Sunday we had the struggles bringing
people, typical Nicaraguan Sunday!
And this morning I had to go to
Managua for a choir practice. We have a Multizona (multi zone conference)
tomorrow, and last night at 11 Elder Collado called and told me that I had to
play the piano for the choir. I also have to give a taller (workshop) at
the Multizona so we will see how it goes! I love you all and hope you
have a great week! We might have a baptism this week, we will see what
happens.
Elder Hanson
PS This week, the 19th is the day of
the Sandinista Revolution, so it could get crazy!
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| Elder Salmeron`s shoe broke working in the rain, so we took a picture |
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