June 7,
2015
This has
been quite an amazing week for me. And everything is going along quite well.
Today we had cambios but nothing changed for us. I am with Elder Barrios for
six more weeks in Guanuca. I think my legs will defiantly have had it by that
time. I am very unhappy that I am not
home to see the new Jurassic Park movie. As long as they didn’t mess it up too
badly, I can wait.
Here in
Nicaragua, it hasn’t been raining a whole lot this week. Sometimes it rains and
other times it doesn’t. I think rains more during the night. Anyway, onto the
next chapter in "The Life of Elder Ferrin as a Missionary".
On
Tuesday we went and visited Itzayana and her mom, María. When we arrived, we
found that the missionaries had already taught everything to her mom, María
before. She had even been to church and everything. So at the end of the lesson
we invited them to be baptized this week on June 11. Then Itzayana said “I
think I can be baptized this Friday, June 10.” So we had the baptism for them
on Friday, which was also the birthday of Elder Barrios. We didn’t do a whole
lot since we both happened to be sick and didn’t want to eat anything. But we
had cake at the baptism to celebrate.
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| Happy Birthday, Elder Barrios! |
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On
Wednesday as we were leaving the house, a less active member called us over to
her house. She attends another branch for some personal reasons. But she
presented us to her 76-year-old aunt and told us that she wants to be baptized.
The brother of the member, who is a return missionary, has been teaching her
some of the lessons. So this week we baptized her on Sunday. So in the short,
at the beginning of the week we had no possibilities of having a baptism and
ended the week with three baptisms. It was very good.
On
Sunday none of our investigators showed up to church. But the ward gave us two
references to visit that came to church this week. So we will go visit them.
Also this week we will have another baptism for a Maria and anyone else who is
miraculously ready.
But that
was pretty much most of the week. I have been finding some very interesting
spiders in the house. Mom, I can send you pictures of them if you’d like.
The
hermanas of Jinotega always have to come down to Matagalpa every week for district
or zone meetings. I travel to Jinotega if I have to do baptismal interviews.
But that was the week.
Adios
Elder
Ferrin
