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| The Juigalpa Zone |
Familia y Amigos,
What’s going on?? This week was
actually a pretty good one here, we had some fun, more General Authorities came,
so that was all good! I will let you know about it.
On Monday nothing else really went
down, we just finished doing some things we needed to do and got back to work.
On Tuesday I had to go to Boaco to do
a last second interview. The guy was super awesome, and super prepared, but he
lied to me in the interview! When I left, he told the Hermanas that he wouldn’t
live the law of chastity, that he couldn’t do it. The guy was so pilas
(awesome), but his baptism ended up falling through because he wouldn’t commit
to live the commandment. Boaco had some really nice weather, it was
really cool, and raining, but it was a cold rain so that was nice. We got
back to the area, while I was gone we had gotten one of our possibilities for
baptism interviewed. He passed and was a little sketchy for his baptism,
but we decided we were just going to pass by every day to visit him.
On Wednesday it was just a day in the
area. We contacted, tried to find some new people. We actually had a
really good day. Everyone let us in, they listened, we put a good number
of fechas (baptismal dates) and the people all seemed like they were going to
progress, haha. We tried to pass by for our possibility but he wasn’t there.
On Thursday it was a day in the area
too. I had to go look at a house for the District Leader so I lost a
little bit of time there, the house ended up not passing the inspection so we
are still looking. We found the possibility on the street, he told us he
didn’t really feel ready for his baptism, we couldn’t like sit down and talk to
him, we tried to set up a cita (appointment), but he was going out of town to
work until Friday night. Things were not looking good at all.
On Friday we had zone meeting to see
how things were looking for November, not looking good at all haha. We
have been encouraging, but there are 3 missionaries dying (ending their
missions) here this change so their areas are not looking good at all. To
have success in the zone, we have to have every area baptizing. It was
nice to be together as a zone though, and we had a good class about commitments.
We found a couple of new investigators, but still things were looking bad for
the baptism. He wasn’t there on Friday night when we passed by, and we
weren’t going to be able to talk to him on Saturday because we had a
conference.
On Saturday we got up bright and
early (didn’t sleep at all) to go to Managua for a conference that we
had. It was with Elder Snow, and Brother Turley. I think that Elder
Snow is the church historian. Anyway Elder Alonso from the Area
Presidency was here too. He or Elder Ochoa almost always come. I
really enjoyed Elder Snow`s message, even though I was exhausted and a little
dozing in and out. He talked about here in Nicaragua, right now they don’t
need just baptisms, they need us to establish the church. They seem like
they really want a temple here in Nicaragua, but they are seeing that the
church isn’t super established yet. Brother Turley also talked about
planting seeds, how things aren’t always going to work out the way we
want. Then Elder Alonso got up and told us that we can double the number
of baptisms that we are having if we use the things that we were taught.
Lots more responsibility haha. The conference ended at 12, we took a
mission photo and left at like 1. Then we headed back to Juigalpa. We got
back here at 5, changed out of our suits and got to work. We went
straight to the possibilities house, and he wasn’t there. We called him
and he said that he was going to be at his house in an hour, so we just sat and
waited. That ended up being 2 hours, he came to his house, he had to go
run another mandado (errand) so we said we would go with him. As we were
walking, I asked him, "you know what today is right?" and he said
"Saturday, and yeah, my girlfriend says she can’t come to my baptism (she
gave us the reference and we taught him) but its ok" So after the
mandado we went to the church and baptized him.
On Sunday, he studies in the morning,
but we have to confirm him in the morning since its our branch. So he
said he was going to be home and we could come and get him at 8, but at 7:45 he
called and said that he wasn’t home. Great. He told us that he was
going to come to the church for his confirmation, but it is so hard to trust
people, there wasn’t anything we could do. He ended up coming! The
other elders baptized one of their investigators in the morning on Sunday also
so it made for not having a ton of investigators in church. It was good
to have the baptisms though.
This week is changes, but I am almost
positive that I will be staying. Plan on another 2 changes here in
Juigalpa :) I hope that everyone has a fun Halloween, I can’t decide if I’m
going to carve a pineapple or a watermelon, we will see!
Love you all,
Elder Hanson
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| Having some fun at Zone meeting |
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| One of our baptisms |
The other baptism this week
Elder Vasquez and Elder Hanson
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