Heaven is full of good works, Hell is full of good intentions.

Well this was a really really busy week with a bunch of unexpected changes. I really don't know how to start, but first of all I have a 2 new companions. So that puts the count up to 9...which is kind of a lot, considering that I have 9 months in the mission. That is one per month! Wow. I am really getting to know like all of the missionaries. Haha So anyway, right now I am in a trio again, with Elder De La Cruz, and Elder Fairborne.

Elder Velazquez was getting kind of sick, and all of a sudden it kind of blew out of proportion, big enough that he actually had to go home to take care of it. So that is why he is not with me anymore. So we had some "emergency changes" on Monday, and I was put into a trio with these two.

Elder De la Cruz is from the Dominican Republic. He is a vary large guy and he loves to eat...a lot! :) haha He speaks really good English. I may have actually talked about him before, because he has been in the office as a materials secretary for a few months now. So I already knew him. He was changed to be the records secretary now, which was a bit of a surprise. And sadly he got like no training to be the secretary, so I have to help with a lot of figuring out how to do things... But he is cool. He actually got to Nicaragua the same day I did, so we have the same amount of time here! That is pretty interesting.

Just messin' around with the new companion...haha! Elder De la Cruz from Dominican Republic

Elder Fairborne is from Utah, and he is really new! He is actually the new materials secretary, and he was going to be comps with Elder De la cruz in that, and I was going to keep moving forward with Elder Velazquez, but one thing led to another, and now Elder Fairborne is jumping into it without any training either! haha But that doesn't really matter, he will figure it out. It is funny to see new people in the office and how they react the first time they get to ride in the truck, or when they go to the mall to run some errands. It is probably exactly how I reacted my first few days, but it is funny now to see it from the other perspective! :)

Just some informational stuff, President already informed me that in the changes in April, I will be receiving the next financier as a companion to train him. And then in the change after that, on May 25th (80 days, but I'm not counting) I will finally be changed to be a non secretary missionary!!! Yayyyyy! :) haha

Changes came this past week, and it was a really good thing that I was really prepared for them this time. With the whole situation about changing companions, it would have been super difficult if I would not have been ready and had lots of experience with how the changes go. So honestly everything went fine. We received lots of new missionaries (19 to be exact) and also many left (23) so there are lots of things changing in the mission!

As far as the area goes: We finally got the opportunity to go visit with Helen last night, and she accepted to put a goal to be baptized next Saturday, the 14th of March. We will be praying hard for her. She told us a while back that she knows the church is true and that she knows that she needs to be baptized. She really is just scared to do it. So we promised her that if she continued to pray asking for comfort, that she should be baptized on the 14th, that she would not feel scared when the day would come around. I have complete faith that it will happen!

Other than that, there are some investigators that I need to get to know, because they were investigators of Elder De la Cruz. So these next few times in the area, we will be getting to know the investigators and the work of each other in the area, and Elder Fairborne will have to learn it all!! Haha!

As far as the subject for the week, our mission president sent us a text message of something to ponder, saying "Heaven is full of good works, Hell is full of good intentions." What a powerful statement. It is basically James 2:17 in stronger words. Faith without works is dead. There is something a ton of people do here. They tell us that God understands when they can't keep his commandments, He understands when they are too busy or too sleepy to go to church one Sunday. When they have other things to do so they can't keep the commandments. But I always tell them the reality. What God understands is that they do not love him enough to do what He asks. Like in 1 Nefi 3:7, he always prepares a way for us to keep His commandments. Like the story of the lady that stopped her soda selling just from the temptation of selling on Sunday. It all plays in the same game. Without works, we will not be worthy to enter into God´s kingdom in the end. So just remember: "Heaven is full of good works, Hell is full of good intentions." It is not enough to think about choosing the right, you must do it!

Hope you have a wonderful week. I love you all very much!

Elder Moser