Monday, March 9, 2015
Dear Mom and Dad,
Sound like you guys had a
pretty good week! I hope mom you keep receiving the blessings from the Blessing
you received! I know and have seen miracles from giving blessings here on the mission!
I know that whatever was said was inspired from our Heavenly Father!! I saw those
photos on drop box of the temple! It looks great! My Comp knows Chris Lund, and
wants to say hi haha :) Small world! :) I guess they are family friends, idk!
Well this week went by super-fast!
and long at the same time! Just some cool stuff that happened first! Here in Bluefield’s
there is a plate of food called "Ron Don" which is like a soup made
with coconut milk! And then they cook the fish, crab lobster, turtle, whatever
it is, in the coconut milk broth! IT IS SO GOOD! So on last Monday we had that
with one of our investigators, her husband is a less active, and is a
fisherman, and had just gotten back from a fishing trip, and brought this huge
fish back, and cooked it up! It was delicious! THEN, on Thursday, another
member who’s a fisherman as well, invited us over for food, and we thought it
would be just the normal Nica food, rice beans, chicken..etc. But to our
surprise it was another Ron Don, but without fish...it was with Lobster tail,
and King Crab legs!!!!!!!!!!!!! That was the greatest plate of food I have ever
eaten here in Nicaragua! All the Lobster was right from the sea, and he gave us
each two lobster tails, and half a crab! WOW! It was amazing! I’m sure this is
killing you guys, but it was so good! :) I put some pictures on drop box of the
lunch!
As far as investigators go, we
are crushing it! We are just riding this Spiritual wave of Obedience! We
brought 12 people to church, and now we have 14 people progressing for
baptism!!! It was a great Sunday, minus a few parts; first off, we will not be
having twelve baptisms this month! Everyone that we have for this month is kind
of falling though... we are going to get as much as we can for the month of
March, but we know that the Lord will keep blessing us with Miracles if we are obedient,
and keep on moving forward! I have figured something out about the work of the
Lord, all of your success as a missionary of the Lord, all depends on two
aspects. First and Primarily, is your personal and companionship obedience! We
always say here in the mission, that obedience brings blessings, but Obedience
with exactness brings Miracles! I know that is so true, and i know that is true
for life after the mission! I love a Scripture in (Ecclesiastes 12:13) that
basically says, the only thing we need to do as men is fear God and keep his
commandments! The second way to have success here in the mission is your
attitude. I could be the most obedient missionary in the world, but it will do
me no good if I have a bad attitude about being obedient! We are working our
butts off; I have lost like 15lbs here in Bluefields from walking so much and
walking fast! I think most of it was water weight from me neck and face haha :)
But I am happy with how hard we are working, and even happier with the
blessings and help we have received from our Loving Heavenly Father!
I love you guys!
Hope you have a great week! May
God bless you and keep you safe!
Elder Naisbitt
