Familia y amigos,
How is everything going? This
week ended up going really well, we found a few people to teach, like 1 or 2
that might progress, had a multizona (multi-zone conference) and just overall a
good time.
On Tuesday we had the
Multizona. It ended up being a really good day. I had to give a
class on using the scriptures in the Multizona and had to play the piano. The
multizona lasted from 9 until like 5, so it was a pretty full day. In the
morning there were messages from Sister Russell and President Russell, which
were really good. I learned a lot from the messages and from stories that they
shared. The topic that President Russell shared was about Keeping the
Sabbath day holy and how we can, as missionaries, help our investigators to
keep it holy by going to church. I think that a lot of times we take
Sunday for granted, when we should really respect the day and remember the Lord
in everything we do. I have definitely learned how important the Sabbath
day is here in the mission. After we had little classes, and then we got
to watch Meet the Mormons, which was awesome. The movie was in Spanish and I’d like to see it in English
some time.
In the night Elder Kleiner came and
did the baptismal interview for one of the investigators I had, his name is
Kevin. He wasn’t sure he wanted to come to church a week ago, but it was
super important that he came so that he could get baptized. I had to be
really direct with him about it but he ended up coming with us. Then we just kind of threw him in the
interview. He was a little doubtful of some things and we were having a
had time finding time to teach him every lesson. Anyway, turns out that
in the interview he told Elder Kleiner about his brother that had died from a
drug overdose a couple of months ago, and what he really needed was the Plan of
Salvation. We were going to teach it the day before the interview but he
wasn’t home. He passed the interview and had the desire to do be baptized.
We finished teaching him everything and got him baptized on Saturday and
confirmed on Sunday. There weren’t any huge problems, except for he
didn’t tell his mom that he was going to get baptized, and she was pretty angry
Sunday morning when she found out. He went to church in a white shirt and
tie that we gave him and that night was asking us when he could get the
priesthood.
On Wednesday I did divisions with
some elders in my district and on Thursday it was just a normal day.
Friday we had district meeting,
another normal day, and then Saturday was the baptism. Nothing else
really happened during the week, and we were blessed to get 6 investigators at
church. Sunday was also the celebration of the Sandinista Revolution, so
a lot of people went to the plaza for all of the festivities.
Today we played a little baseball
with the ward because nobody worked today, so that was fun. This week
will just be a normal week, we don’t have any baptisms planned. I love
you all and I hope you have a great week!
Elder Hanson
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| My District (Trinidad 1) |
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| A little kid I met at the pulperia (store). |
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