Familia y Amigos,
This week was decent, our baptism
ended up falling which was a bummer but we had a couple miracles happen, we
should have a couple baptisms this week.
So Monday through Wednesday not a ton
happened. We just worked in they area, tried to find some people but didn’t
have a ton of luck. Tuesday in the afternoon I got a text from one of the
APs that they would be bringing me a missionary to work with me. I guess
there were E changes and he had done something, he ended up staying the
night. Worked hard with us, who knows what happened.
On Thursday we had a super awesome
day. The ward decided to have this thing called Noche de Hermanamiento,
it is just like an activity where you bring your investigators and the new converts
so the members can get to know them better, it was definitely a success.
We had a good lesson about tithing with one of our investigators that is
preparing for baptism this week and it was a great day. The best thing
happened though right after our last lesson. It was like 9pm and we were
walking home, when all of a sudden we heard someone yell "hermanos,
hermanos!" So we saw that it was one of our investigators. She is
the investigator that I was talking about a couple weeks ago that was progressing
really well back in May, but she got a job and had to work on Sundays. We
continued teaching her and for the past couple months we had been visiting her
on Wednesdays, her free day. So the day before she had told us that they
hadn’t given her the new job as she was expecting, and was kind of disappointed
because she really wanted to get baptized and be strong in the church. Anyway
back to real time, she called us over, and I was a little surprised because she
usually works until like midnight. I asked her if she got off work early,
and she told us that she had quit her job that morning and was going to go to
church on Sunday. We set up an appointment with her for the next day and
we were stoked!
On Friday we passed by, she was there
and she committed to baptism. We went over the baptismal questions with
her and she was good, she has a strong testimony from the long time we have
teaching her.
Saturday was a little rough, with the
baptism falling, as well as a couple investigators dropped us but nothing too
horrible. It was a really slow day but we were able to get the majority
of our investigators committed to church.
Sunday we had an awesome turn out in
church, we got our investigators interviewed so this week we will just be busy
locking them down.
It is crazy to think that the time
has come here to an end, but I am so grateful for the chance I had to serve the
people here of Nicaragua. I love this place with all of my heart and am
grateful for all of the experiences that I have had here that have not only
changed me but also the people I have had the opportunity to teach. I
know and have seen the influence of the gospel in these people’s lives, and I
know that God continues to lead and guide us through living prophets. I’m
grateful for my savior Jesus Christ, for his Atonement that applies to us in
each day of our lives.
Want to give a quick Bday shoutout to
my mom, happy birthday!!! Love you lots!!
Thats all I can think of, love you
all.
see you at 7 in 7.
Elder Hanson
bad news... no pics this week.
sorry!!