Ben's Mission to Nicaragua: ROBBED! :O

Well you read it right, this week was a slightly sad one..... our house was broken into and we had a few things stolen. But don't worry, life around here is still moving!!

We got back to our house on Wednesday night, and everything seemed normal, but as we entered into our room, my suitcase was in the middle of the floor and some stuff strewn about........ sooooooo I decided to take a look, and saw that a couple things were missing! So I was like ohhhhh poop. So I started to look a little more determined and found a few things missing, but to be completely honest, they did not take much. Because I know it will be a question next week if I don't say it now, they took :
My backpack
camera memory cards (luckily all empties)
some money
my speaker for my music (RIP)
my towel
our iron
our ladder
E. Maradiagas camera
backpack
speaker
lotions
a cooler
and the best of all..... wait for it........ the breaker box!! (yes, I am trying to put any sensible reason behind that one and I still haven't found one...)

So that is the list, I think. Or at least what we have realized up to this moment.
I think I know what you are thinking right now, that has to be the most random list of things stolen from a house ever. And I couldn't agree more :) sooo yeah. We spent the rest of the night showing the police around the house, going to the police station, going back to the house, and then yet again to the police station. We finally got to bed at 1:30am. And very surprisingly, I slept like a rock. I was soooooo tired.

This week we also had to send two people off to their homes..... it was too bad, but I think that is why I was soo tired! But I am getting used to not sleeping! I think that will serve me very well in the future! ;)

Honestly other than that it was pretty uneventful.

We have a few investigators right now that are pretty positive! One of the more positive is named Victoria, like 30 years old. Elder Maradiaga and I were contacting one night, and we happened to talk to her sister, Andrea, who had been receiving visits a lot in the past from sister missionaries with her boyfriend, so we put an appointment to come back. We kept trying to visit, but they were never home! Finally one day her sister, Victoria, answered the door, so we talked to her for a little bit, and she said that we could come back on a certain day and that Andrea and Jonathan would be home. So we came, and SURPRISE!! They weren't home! But Victoria was nice and decided to let us talk to her. She wasn't too positive to start, but as we taught, we explained how for this new year we are helping people start it off in the right path, and that we wanted to help her to get baptized! So she told us she would think about it. We came back for another visit this week and taught her about the plan of salvation and she really loved it, because she really didn't know if there was even life after this earth. It gave her a little more feeling of purpose in her life! She has a really hard time with her family because she lives with all of them, but she really isn't accepted too much, and they don't talk with her much. And as we were closing the lesson, out of nowhere, she told us that she wants to get baptized! So that was really exciting to hear! We assured her that we would be able to help prepare her to be baptized, and she agreed to take one of the first steps, to come to church on Sunday!

Another investigator is named Mariela, She has about 50 years. And she contacted us about a week back, and told us that she had been looking for the church for so long now!! She said that she was visiting in Chicago for a long time and talking with the missionaries. She said that she knows the church is true, and upon talking of baptism, she wants to be baptized as well! I don't really understand how she isn't already baptized from the missionaries in Chicago, because she really already knows everything there is to teach. She just asked us if we could review a lot of the things so that she is a little more fresh on the knowledge... haha So that is the goal with her.

And one other investigator that we have is Juan Jimenez! He is an old friend of the father of the President of the Branch, President Aristomane. And when we first visited him, we left him with a pamphlet of the restoration. We told him to read two pages out of it, just to get him started with the lesson material in his head before our next visit. When we came back for a lesson, he had read the entire thing, taken notes, and written down questions! That never happens here! It is hard enough to get them to read the assignment, let alone more and take notes and questions!! So he is super interested to look for the correct path in this new year!!

Overall things are really going great and I love being a missionary every second. Sometimes I am really trunky to get out of the office so that I can just work all day, but I know I'm here for a reason, so I am going to just do my best while I am here, and let that day come in its time!

I read a really awesome scripture today in Joshua 24:15. "But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord."

We need to choose this day whom we will serve. Not tomorrow! Today. We need to make sure that we are doing the right things and it we are not, we need to change that!!! As it says in Matthew 6:24: No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

We cannot serve two masters, so choose this day to serve God and Jesus Christ who are one in purpose!

I love you all! And Special shoutout to the Relief Society for the many letters I have received!! :D I love them!! (hint hint) haha

Elder Moser

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