It has been a real busy first two weeks of august, but things have really been going so well. This past saturday we had an activity called a "Tarde Blanca" with the zone, where we have all the baptisms in the zone in the same place. We worked with the stake president to have it at a beach in Corinto. The baptismal service was at the Church in Corinto which is right on the beach and then the baptisms were performed in the ocean in front. Despite some setbacks due to lack of church leadership support in Corinto (Missionaries in Nicaragua are used to doing all the work themselves anyways), everything worked out just fine in the in and it was an incredible experience to see all those people take that first step in the gospel at one of my favorite places on earth (The Beach). I will send pictures below.
Things here in our area in generally have also been really good. We find so many people everyday without even trying! They seriously find us. We have been working occasionally in a community called mocoron that is like 20min from the church and we are literally getting more references there from the few members than we have close to enough time to actually visit! The bishop and our ward mission leader are also really excited about the progress we have been seeing in this community and they went with us to have a small family nigh type activity and it was likie a little flashback to my days in Somoto! It has been way cool to have those little community activities and having so much support from the Ward. we are teaching a family of 6 there in Mocoron and they are seriously one of the most incredible families I have worked with. They just want everyone to hear the messages we share with them and everytime we show up they invite different neighbors and cousins to come over and listen to us. It makes things so easy and is inspiring to see people that are so humble and so open to listen, learn, and share.
Another Family that has been awesome is Familia Baquedano. They are so incredible. They were baptized like two months ago and they both dedicate a ton of time to their callings and are constantly inviting their neighbors and family members to listen to us. They have no fear or shame to share what they know and everyone recognizes the huge changes they have made in their lives. They recently introduced us to another family who they invited over to a family night and this family looks to be extremely prepared to hear the gospel. They came to church for the first time this week and are so happy to be hearing our message. Also We baptized one of Silvio Baquedano's Nephews, Freddy, in the Tarde Blanca last week and he will probably be on a mision in a years time.
I could go off on the great difference it makes when members work in la obra misional, but there is just no time. Hopefully those short example are sufficient. As far as other news. A new change just started and I am staying with the smae comp, but there were abunch of changes in the zone.
Thanks for all your emails, and sorry for lack of updates and details, but I'll be able to share a bunch more with time once i'm back. Hope all is well back home and god bless you all.
Love Elder Hamson
Fotos 1y2: tarde blanca. foto 3 spaghetti with part of Familia Baquedano (we helped make it)
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