We spent most of the week meeting a lot of new people so that I could know where all of the converts, less actives and members live. At the beginning of the week, we didn’t have plans to baptize anyone this week, but we were able to have one this week for a cute little old man named Pedro. He is the dad of some members and he is 87 years old and I am not sure how much he remembers about what we have taught him. We had plans to baptize him on Saturday but his daughter didn’t want him to get baptized and he was sick. So we passed by the next day before church and took him to church to be baptized. This was the funniest baptism I have ever had. We showed him to the bathroom to change clothes. We made sure to tell him to take of his pants and put on the white ones. So in time I baptized him but as he got out of the font, the draining water had a dark tint to him. We just thought, wow that is one dirty man. But we get to the bathroom and he is changing but we couldn’t find his pants. So we started searching the church and thought that someone stole his pants. After a bit I rolled up his pants and noticed that he had his other pants on. Pedro got baptized with his normal pants on! So a member went and found new pants for him. Then there was a cake that someone brought and we ended cutting it with a CD instead of a knife.
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| Elder Gustin, Pedro, and Elder Ferrin |
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| Pedro and his family |
But I have gone to Managua way too much this week. I went on Thursday for a new missionary meeting and then today since Elder Gustin had to go and renew his cedula. But we got donuts from this trip. This week I go to Managua on Saturday for a multi mission conference with President Nelson. Then the next week we go back for the leader’s council so that is just a lot of time to Managua.
Also this week when I was in Managua, I baptized Carmen, the Adventist in Waspan. Apparently she had a dream that I had to baptize her. So since I was in Waspan, she got baptized. I was happy to see her get baptized. Now we just need to baptize the daughter. They write me almost every week as well.
But that was the week. We hope to be able to have four baptisms for this week. Almost all of the baptisms here in the zone I have been involved with, in Guanuca as well as Matagalpa. So very interesting. The Lord blesses us and helps us reach our goals. At the start of the week we didn’t have anyone to baptize, but we put our mind to having the baptism this week and it happened. The Lord does give miracles as we trust in Him and do our part.
Have fun. Stay safe.
Elder Ferrin
