This has been quite the interesting week for me. On Wednesday, I went on an exchange with Elder Spencer (who came to Nicaragua) with me. So you had two missionaries who barely knew anything. I enjoyed it though because there wasn’t someone telling me what to do all of the time. And I had the opportunity to see how good my Spanish is becoming. I was able to understand most of what people say and could teach fine. We were working in Elder Spencer's area and we taught a woman named Carla. Her daughter is a member and Carla and her husband have listened to all of the lessons but can´t be baptized because the husband doesn’t want to be married. They have been living with each other for 21 years and all she wants is to be married and get baptized. I gave suggestions to help by having family prayer and scripture study and family home evening. All I want is for them to get baptized. I feel like this is the first person I have really connected with and they are not even in my area. These exchanges are good experience to learn how to work better by combining strategies of finding people.
On Saturday I had my first baptism for Nestor y Valeska. I got to baptize Valeska which didn’t go too bad for my first baptism. Only had to do it twice and almost one more time. So I will be sending pictures from that. It was so cool to see them baptized and they have two cute children that are so funny to watch. We also found a few new investigators named Miguel y Ester. And they went to church so hopefully they can be baptized by the end of the month.
I wasn't surprised when I heard about Grandma dying. I kind of expected it so I was ready for when the news came today. We had gotten a call to come to mission office, so we went and met with Hermana Collado. She had brought us McDonald's, which tasted amazing to have a real hamburger and fries to eat. The entire time I had no idea why I was there. In the meeting I took what she said completely wrong since she doesn't know English. Instead of hearing that they got a call from home, I thought they said that I was going home and I just did not understand. Then someone translated and I felt a whole lot better.
I know that Grandma is in a much happier place and with Grandpa. I think that it is what she has wanted for a while. I remember during memorial camp always spending time in the motor home playing games. And grandma would always come in and offer us treats and all sorts of things. She almost always seemed happy when I was growing up. I remember when they would babysit us occasionally and I enjoyed that a lot when I was young.
Thanks for all of the support I love you all and I miss you all. (I am also really missing my legos). But this is where I need to be and I enjoy it so much here.
Elder Ferrin
