February
23, 2015
Thank
you for the joke mom. I found it quite funny. But everything is going pretty
good here and just going about trying to find people to teach. I think my
Spanish is getting better, at least that is what I tell myself. And yes, I
still play the piano week every week in church. I have had dreams, but I just
forget any of them right now right now. Also tell Travis congratulations about
his mission call. It is going to be one of the best experiences in his life, as
well as a pretty hard one sometimes.
Orquidea
is still coming along. Lessons are a lot more casual now, since we are not
pressuring her about being baptized. She seems to enjoy the lessons a bit more
as well. One of the lessons we just talked and shared all of our favorite
scriptures including her favorites. So I think she should be ready to baptism
this week.
This
week we started teaching a contact we received from Nestor y Valeska. His name
is Eduardo. A funny thing is that I already knew him. We taught him a lot my
first few weeks here in Nicaragua, but dropped him because he never went to
church after three weeks. So this week we taught and he came to church for the
first time. He liked it for the most part except wasn’t sure about when he
heard that God had a physical body. He also has a baptismal date for the March
14.
Then
we have the Adventist who are still not praying, but going to church. They
really enjoy going to church. So this week they are going to go to the baptism
on Saturday and a ward activity right after. I just want to see them get
baptized, but they tell us that we have to be patient. All I can think is
that, as missionaries, we are not patient after you have been to church twice
and don’t have a baptismal date.
But
that is mostly it I guess. Also, thanks for the message mom. That was something
that I think I really needed to hear. The Atonement really has a great power
and we don’t recognize it very much even though it is the thing that carries us
through our entire lives. To have that hope and feeling of being pure and clean.
I feel like it is the greatest miracle any of us could ask for: To be clean at
any moment so that we can return to the presence of our Heavenly Father.
But
have a good week. Thanks for all of the support that you give me and all of the
prayers.
Elder
Ferrin
