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| Elder Ferrin has a standing joke with his mom about the spiders (and other creepy things that he sees). So it probably wasn't an accident that this photo was sent. |
But we originally had the plans to have the baptism for Annyi this week on Wednesday. We had everything planned and ready. She had the interview but at the last minute the branch president told us we had to find a lawyer. So we went to the normal lawyer we use for the marriages and she told us she couldn’t do it for one reason ... Annyi is 15 years old. They just barely changed the law in Nicaragua that you can´t get married until you are 16 years old, even if you have parents’ permission. So she won´t be able to be baptized or married until February of the next year.
We have still been teaching Aldo. We passed by for him on Wednesday and he asked us if he could be baptized on Sunday. So we quickly finished teaching the lessons and had the interview from the zone leaders. He then needed the interview from one of the counselors of the mission, but we still didn’t know we could baptize him until 7:30 a.m. on Sunday. We had the baptism before church and everything went well. All I can say is that the Lord really does forgive us and love us no matter what we might have done. I have been able to see that in my own life and that of so many other people during the mission. We are His children and He will do what He can so that we come back to His presence.
Every week we do an activity called Noche de Hermanamiento in a part of the area called Sabadell. It is a bit farther from the church, but there a lot of members that live there. Normally when we do this activity only about 10 people come. This week the branch president came and we changed the location to a house and this week we had 45 people come. Which is more than the amount of people that show up to this activity every week when they do it in the church. So that was pretty cool. Almost all of my converts were in the activity.
On Sunday with the baptism, we weren’t able to pass by for very many of our investigators, but somehow we were able to have 7 people come to church this week. One of them we the Familia Lopez who we started teaching again which might get baptized this week. And the attendance at sacrament meeting was 113. Which is the best yet seen since I started serving here. When I arrived attendance was around 76 on average. So it has really grown a lot since there has been a lot of baptisms and reactivation on the part of the members. So the church is growing once again.
But that was the week. Not much else to report. Hope everything is fine at home.
Elder Ferrin
