March 24, 2016
Hello Family
In case you
didn't figure it out from the subject line.... It was really hot this
week. Like super hot. It is a physical force that slows down your
steps and draws every molecule of water from your body. It´s so hot.
so hot.
This week
was pretty good I guess. We got Kirby baptized and that was pretty cool
to complete the second family in two weeks. He got baptized on Saturday
by a returned missionary that says he´s a friend, but he seems like more of an
acquaintance to me. It was a cool baptism because the six of us in our
district (the 6 office secretaries) had a total of six baptisms.
Other
investigators: Familia Robleto, Javier went to church and the rest were
sick and didn't. They´ve been having a ton of problems in trying to find
a competent, non Nicaraguan doctor to do the heart surgery for Rosemary.
This last week their insurance said they´d pay for the mom and Rosemary to
travel to Columbia for the surgery. They´re pretty excited about it but
the mom is a bit nervous to be alone in Columbia with the baby. They
asked us to send elders to the airport to take her to the place she´ll stay and
help her with the bags. I wanted to just say, well if you would've just
gotten baptized we could just call ahead to your ward and get the relief
society on the job. But she hasn't so we´ll try to figure out some way to
get a member down there to help her but I´m not sure how we´ll do it.
Someone just let me know if you have a connection in Bogota Columbia. But
ya keep praying for them. Since they´ll leave so soon it´s likely they
won´t get married or baptized until at least after the mom gets back (she´ll be
gone for about a month). So that kind of sucks.
Our other
investigators are Mel and Veronica. Mel is Maria´s son and Monica´s
brother and Veronica is his partner. They decided they´d get married and
that Veronica would get baptized on Saturday but then Satan got to work and
started sucking. First, Mel lost his job and they got super sad, but
after promising them lots of blessings and giving them some pretty deep
spiritual pep talks the next day they got back on board. Then we found
out that Monica and Kirby, who were going to be the witnesses for the
marriages, left unexpectedly on vacation and wouldn't be back by
Saturday. And they were pretty set on them being the witnesses because
for Monica and Kirbys' wedding Mel and Veronica were the witnesses. But
we convinced them to just let a young, recently-baptized couple from the ward
do it. Then the lawyer ended up not being able to do it on Saturday
because he has 5 other weddings to do on Saturday. So we got them to change it
for tomorrow. So they´re getting married and she´s getting baptized
tomorrow. We´ll see what else Satan decides to throw at them but they've
made it this far so they´re pretty set on getting married.
Sorry
I´m writing today, yesterday we had the last multizones and I never got a
chance to write. The multizones went very well, and I got everyone their
food and drink and crap like that. Yesterday was Universitaria's
multizone so I participated in the classes and stuff when I wasn't occupied
with food or other necessary errands. Also Granada and Carazo (zones)
came so I got to see Hanson, Medrano, and Nave which was a bit of a blast from
the past. We were initially told that we´d just lose our pday this week
from the multizone which kind of sucked. But this morning at about 7:30
we found out that we could have our pday today. Yay.
Good
job on the piano Peyton with your superiors. That´s really cool.
Good job on having a bridal shower Delaney, that´s cool. But no one
really gave any sort of detail about it other than some of the things she
got. I mean, you could at least say where it was held, who came...
Hopefully you all have fun in Vegas and St George. I´m sure it´ll be
soooooooooooo hot. I feel bad for you over there having to suffer
in the heat.
This
week in Nicaragua is Semana Santa. Basically everyone skips town today
through Sunday and goes to the beach and gets super drunk. Those that are
too poor or just don´t want to be around a bunch of drunk people put out little
kiddie pools in their dirt yards and party in those. It´s kind of a pain
because all of Nicaragua kind of closes down this week except McDonalds.
That´s nice at least.
Well, have a great
week. Don´t get too hot out there in Vegas.
Love,
Elder Smith
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Jungers, guy that baptized (his name might be Eduardo), kirby, me
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The whole family
L to R:Mel, Bridget (the baby), Veronica, Maria, Jimena, Andy, Mikey (blue shirt), Brizza (plaid shirt between the two little boys pronounced Bree-suh), Monica, Kirby, Brianna
Bottom Row: Elder Jungers, Me :) bet you couldn´t figure that out haha
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