Monday, March 7, 2011

Monday, March 7, 2011

hey family, sounds like you guys had a pretty fun week! st george is awesome. Probably pretty hot over there like down here. Hope all is well and you made it back safely.

This week has been pretty good. Things are going well with my comp. The area I am in, Chinandega, is pretty hard. The last week i think i mentioned that we might move houses. The thought has been in my head since i got moved here. and throughout last week it has kept coming back to my head. I started to think out the idea, pray about it, and it did not seem too bad. I talked to the ZL´s about it one night and they listened to my case. Instead of living in belen, we would move into the city of chenandega. They prayed about it and decided it would be a good idea too. So the begining of this week we moved houses. It was kinda stressful, the ZL´s had meeting down in managua so i ended up doing a lot of the planning and calling. It ended up going really well. Some missionaries from the other area came and helped move us. Our new house is about 1/4 of the size of our house before. Its the second floor of a families house. Just two small rooms and a hallway. The family were living does not have any members... we plan on changing that =) they are very nice though. Its a lot diffent in the city, definitley a lot noiser. but i love it. I feel really good about it too. part of me hopes there was a bigger reason we needed to move that i dont know about.

other than that, things have been well. Im learning a lot and definitley been humbled in a lot of aspects. Its been hard with investigators. In managua, we had a lot more progressing. Part of the problem here i think is that we dont work much with members. Especially our area, because there are barley any. The focus of my fast this week has just been to help prepare the people in our area for the gospel. Help us find some investigators that really want to progress. Iv already seen plenty of blessings and its only been one day!

The cool story for this week happened a few days ago when we were walking home from working. It was about 7 or 8 and we were just on the side of a busy street. There was a man that was walking behind us, he looked to be in his 40s. I slowed down a little and started to talk to him. He was pretty cool, just on his way to his church. My companion stayed infront of us the whole time. After talking to him for a while about our church, he stopped and asked me if the person infront of us was my companion. I said yes, and told him his name was elder sanchez. He said his name, and my comp turned around. After about 4 seconds of silence, they hugged! apparently, this man was one of elder sanchez´s investigators in his very first area in managua (remember, he has 22 months now!. The man said that in the past two years he has moved here in chenandega, and also has changed religion, partly because he did not know the mormons were in this city. He had also commented on how much my companion had changed since his first area... wow huh?

anyways all is well here. Hope things are still going well down there! love you all

Hello family! Monday February 28, 2011

hope things are well over there!! things are pretty good here. This has definitley been a hard week, but also a good one. i love chinandega. Its a big city on the north west coast of nicaragua, you probably can see it on a map of nicaragua. Its very beautiful here. It is also one of the wealthier cities in nicaragua. It in not very modern, but definitly cleaner and safer here than in the capital. my area is brand new, i was replacing the missionary that opened the area about a month ago. its built up of three small villages that surround the city of chinendega, it is a huge area and we travel a lot. its about 30-40 minutes of walking between each one. There are not many members because it is new, but i have learned to love that. Most people we talk to dont know anything about our church. I have prayed a lot for the area, and we are hoping to change some things. we got the zone leaders to start looking for a new house in a more central location of the area, and were working on getting permission to ride bikes. The lord has blessed me and taught me so much in the little time i have here here.

The big event that happened here, well maybe not too big but interesting, was we had an earthquake! it was a 5.5 on the rector scale. we were getting ready for bed and our whole house shook. at first i thought it was a really strong wind. My comp kinda panicked. nothing got broke though, just shook our tables and a whole bunch of mangos fell from the tree above us onto our roof.

things are going well with my comp. I am learning to love him. Its been good to start speaking spanish 24/7 again. The hard thing though was he ran out of money about 4 days ago, which was kinda frustrating because he has bought a lot since i have been with him. Iv decided to make a chart for this months money so both me and him can improve our budgeting skills!

Anyways, all is well here. Todays been a good day, we cooked some kind of itailian pasta together as a zone this morning! it was really good and something different from beans and rice.

Hope all is well out there, your always in my prayers!