Monday, October 5, 2015
October 5, 2015
Well this week was great!! full of frustrating situations towards the
end of the week but ill talk about that later haha. So this week
passed by pretty fast, my comp and I didn't find as many new people to
teach as we would've liked. But those that we did find are really
awesome. So this week we went crazy inviting EVERYONE to go to
conference it was crazy. then this weekend comes to conference time
right. My branch was supposed to have a bus to take the people , then
Saturday morning right before the route was supposed to start they
said the bus forgot and went to do another trip, so last minute we had
to find a bus and it was super chaotic and frustrating but i guess I've
really been calmed in my mission haha. But we were able to bring 14 of
our investigators to the conferences this Saturday and Sunday. All of
them really loved it and we could really tell. I love watching
conference, i was able to watch it in English too which was pretty
neat. Like every other elder probably, I loved the talk by Elder
Holland that talked about moms. I love my mom and i love how much she
cares about me, I also love my heavenly father and my savior and all
that they have given me and all that they have in store for me. I know
this church is true and that the apostles and prophet are called of
God to guide us in these latter days! Love y'all!
September 28, 2015
Well, I feel old now, My next birthday in a year i will have 16 days
left in my mission which is crazy. Tomorrow i hit 11 months! time sure
does fly in the service of the Lord. Well this week was very wet and
rainy, so it was another rain boots week! Something that has really been
funny this week is messing with other missionaries. My comp and i live
with our Zone Leaders and something that my comp and i always do is
when the zone leaders do divisions we all prank the "outsider" haha,
for example cutting off the power and playing some weird music.so my
comp and i got some good laughs as we went about throughout the week
haha. But also we had some really awesome families that were teaching
that almost got baptized this week but they had some family members
come in from a community and by the time they weren't able to do it.
But I'm excited this week for General Conference!! therll be 3 new
apostles too which is insane. SO today there were changes again but I'm still
in my area! That'll make 5 changes her! but I love it so I'm not
complaining! I'm excited to keep working with Elder Monson and throwing
fire by helping people come unto Christ. Days seem like hours here,
and hours seem like seconds.I love the mission and I love how much my
testimony has been strengthened here. Make sure y'all watch conference!
It'll be great! Bring a friend to go so that they too can listen to a
prophet of God!
September 21, 2015
Well not not much happened this week. We did have alot of super
spiritual lessons with investigators and we have a super sweet family
that wants to get baptized this week and all. But I've been healthy and
things are good. The days are going by faster and faster! and this
week ill finally be turning 19!! Its a missionary tradition to egg the
birthday person so this Thursday ill be on the lookout. Some of the
funny things that happened this week, is Elder Monson and I were
walking around out night and some bolo (drunk) walks up to us and
tries to shake our hands and we try to give him knuckles instead but
he wouldn't go for it so we shake his hand and he kisses our hands and
it was super awkward so we told him he should go home and rest haha,
then after we go do do some interviews for people and then these 2
neighborhoods start fighting and the streets get packed then something
scares them and they all disperse. Then later on in the week at night
we played an intense little game of Battleship with the lights off
using boxes to cover our boards and a flashlight in the box. So this
Sunday we were late to our services cause we had to bring a family to
church. So Monson and i had to go to a meeting later on in the
afternoon to take the sacrament. The church has a bus that takes
people to it so we get on the bus to go to it and the bus fills up
quickly so Monson and i end up having to walk the rest of the way so
everyone else can get there on time. So I'm walking and next thing i
know i fall into a barbed wire fence and get my shirt all cut up and
my arm and hand up a little but clean it off a little but i awkwardly
went to the meeting with a cut up shirt and bloody arm, but today its
not too bad. But the Lord works miracles! couldve been alot more
dangerous but everything under my undershirt was unscaved. But In my
mission I've learned a lot of things and had a lot of experiences that have
helped me learn things I otherwise wouldn't have learned if I was at
home. Ill try to take more pics this week! I hope y'all have a good
week and help other people daily. Choose the right! and next week is
changes!! but who knows the changes haha, only President & God
September 14, 2015
Well this week was pretty interesting, lots of fun stories were made
and many spiritual memories.So the week kinda started out bad cause i
left a notebook that i had in a taxi that had some notes of memories
that I've had with other missionaries and advice and photos and all that
good stuff so yeahh. But then I found some weed eating equipment which
made it a lil better haha. And for the first time i watched a pig
running around get turned into ribs and it was weird but i bore it. On
divisions we found a cool bridge that had all these holes in it which
was funny, but we also found these really cool family that started off
as a contact and then the lady invited us in the house to sit down and
we share a message about repentance and baptism and how we all need to
better our relationship with God and her and her son accepted a date
to be baptized. Its crazy here how so many people hre are so ready to
be baptized as long as you follow the spirit, Christ will put those in
your paths and make us say what is needed to say to them. Then when i
got back to my area we had to take the trash out to burn and all these
mealworms were under the bag and so it got super nasty and smelled
horrible in the house so we threw the bag all over the fire. Then had
a seafood soup for lunch which was realllly good. Lobster, crab and
some fish which i somehow got lucky enough to kiss ;P. These past
weeks we've been teaching some siblings of one of my recent converts
and we were able to baptize the 3 of them this weekend which was
really nice, they're so awesome and are already trying to get their
other family to hear our message. But this week was really good,
rained alot but its always worth it working for the Lord. Ive got less
than 13 months left in Nicaragua, its crazy how time flies, but I'm
loving it how its not flying too fast. Nowadays i cant imagine how the
normal life would be, i just want to keep helping others come unto
Christ and seeing the differences the spirit can make in our lives. I
love y'all! have a good week! and remember, Have you done anything good
today?
September 7, 2015
Well how are y'all doing???My week has been a little interesting. I got
really sick on Tuesday and ended up not being to work really. I felt
like i was dying and everyone else was saying that too, I was just
balled up on someones porch all day. I ended up having some throat
infection after the fact too but now i can say, I, Elder Baltimore, am
healthy again haha. But this week has been really fun. My comp and i
have made alot of good memories with the people here. They love us and
we love them. One of the cool things that we had happen to us was one
of my recent converts had her family come in from one of the
communities and then she wanted all of her brothers and sisters to be
baptized which was really cool so now we've been teaching them with
her. Also a hermana in the branch had a son turn 8 years old and he
wanted to get baptized and he chose me to baptize him which was a
pretty cool opportunity. Then in our house we all decided to do some
weird hair parting stuff and i decided to part mine down the middle
and it looked really odd. But now i wanna talk about the importance of
the families. As missionaries alot of times we go about looking for
lots of families to teach and through my mission I've really learned
why.Families a a grand gift from God, A sacred gift. Without the
family, who would we be really as individuals? As families we need to
have good relations, not only within the family, but with God, which
means praying daily as a family, reading as a family, passing time as
a family, and talking and working things out as a family. The family
is perfect place too to live the gospel, if we live the gospel as a
family, we will be happy as a family. Here on the Mission I've really
missed my family, but I've really learned the importance of them and
the role they play in my life. Heavenly Father has really blessed my
family, which is why I'm here, to help other families here in
Nicaragua, in Puerto Cabezas, realize what I've have learned in my
life, that God put us all into one unit of people to be happy and to
feel his spirit, he wants us to come back to him too in these units
and not only as individuals. He wants us to be eternal families.
Remember the importance of our families that we've been blessed with
and don't take it for granted! i love y'all!
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