August 31, 2015
Dear Mom and Dad!
Dear Mom and Dad!
well this week was super crazy! That's all I can say! Sounds
like your week was good! I hope the laubs is feeling good and that her arm gets
feeling better!
Like I said this week was super nuts! there was so much that
happened! Wow!
Ok well first off I will say that I have never been so tired
and stressed and hungry in the entire world! Elder Merrill and I figured out
those are the basic feelings of a hard working servant of the Lord
hahaha. At all times we feel those three feelings haha. We are stressed
because of the lack of sleep, and because of constant hunger haha. We are tired
for the lack of food, and stress. We always are hungry because we are so dang
tired and so dang stressed! hahaha its a vicious cycle!!!! :) With that is always
mixed in Joy! obviously!
So last Monday we went to visit a family that is less active
up in the top of our area, they are super super rich!! We had never visited
there, so as we walked in we sat down on really nice couches, and as we sat
down, the Dad went up the stairs, and as he went up the stair I noticed
something I had not seen in over 20
months.....CARPET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So we had to take
pictures! :D Pics are on drop box!
We ended up getting a call on Monday night from one of the
assistants and they told us on Tuesday we had mission leadership council the
next day, so on Tuesday we basically did that, and that night we ordered pizza
and celebrated the good month we had so far, ill tell you how the zone finished
in the month of August at the end of the letter!
On Wednesday we went and worked in our area for the first
time in a few days, and found a few cool people! Elder Merrill and I went down
to Rivas that night to do some baptism interviews for the upcoming Saturday,
and we came back Thursday Morning and got to work!
On Thursday we spent most of the day getting ready for the
upcoming zone meeting that happened on Friday. That was super time consuming,
but worth it. Elder Lopez and Gomez worked in the area, and kept everything
moving!
So Friday we spent all morning planning out our zone around
the idea that Missionaries are like sharks. Sharks are super interesting
because if you put a baby great white shark in a small fish tank, supposedly
the shark will not out-grow the fish tank and never gets to its full length
which is over 15ft long. Missionaries are like that, we seem to for some reason
we put limits to ourselves and never grow to our potential. The
missionaries loved it, and then we showed the video of Elder Uctdorf's talk
about the guy on the cruise ship that did not take advantage of everything that
was available to him! It was good! Friday night we slept like 1 hour because we
were preparing the famous "Pick-Up" to take all of the missionaries
to Managua for
the meeting with President Nelson.
We left our house around 3:00am! I tried taking a picture of
my watch, but that did not work! Sorry, but we got to Managua around 6:30. We were so
tired....Still am haha. So we took some pictures of the trip.
The meeting was awesome! I felt the spirit so strong confirm
to me again that we are in the truth, and that we were listening to a true
prophet of God! It was awesome! President Nelson talked about the importance of
studying and knowing the doctrine in our hearts! He gave us a few new tips on
how to study and what to study! It was awesome! I cant really describe it, but
it was awesome! :)
We left Managua
and made the same dumb trip back to Jinotepe. We made it back home around
5:30pm dead as rocks, but we could not rest because of what we were about to do
as a zone!!! At the beginning of the month of August we put a Goal of baptizing
30 people, which is something that the zone never in the history of Nicaragua has
ever completed! So we had 22 baptisms coming into the last week, and we had
exactly 8 possibilities. We were so stressed all week to get those 8 people in
the water because it was our goal! We prayed hard, and worked even harder to
get this Goal! But you want to know what happened....? :) WE BAPTIZED
30!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't know how we did, but the Lord is amazing! We are so
thankful to Him and all He did to help us reach that goal!
Now here we are, on Monday! This morning in the middle of
cleaning the house, the government showed up and told us they were fumigating,
so they came and fumigated our house! There is a few pictures and a video of
that! :)
Love you guys! Thanks so much for the contact solution! If I
run out of those two bottles ill just buy more! Thanks for everything you guys
do for me!
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!! YOU GUYS ARE THE GREATEST PARENTS EVER!
Have a great week!
Elder Naisbitt
