Ben's Mission to Nicaragua: I love my Heavenly Father!!!

Ok so this was honestly like one of the best weeks of my life. Quite possibly the best! We saw some serious miracles, and honestly they are too many to share.

I have some awesome stories about Kenya and Jerson, but I will save them for next week, after their baptism. Just remind me about it next week :) They are awesome and quite possibly my favorite investigators that I have had in my entire mission.

But I had some awesome other miracles too. One of the first ones that I would like to share is that this week we had some fun with chickens. The best part is in the video that I have, that will be in drop box, but enjoy that. We got to lunch on Wednesday and Elder Monson told us about how he knows how to put a chicken to sleep. So all of a sudden, we set out to catch the chickens that our food appointment has. If you have ever tried to catch a chicken, it is not easy! hahaha They are sneaky little guys. So the four of us, Me, Elder Compton, Clark and Monson set out. There were about 7 chickens at first, but through much trial and error, we were down to one more that was just chilling under the house hiding from us! So we got it out by throwing rocks, and very strategically trapped it in the corner, now with two more missionaries to help (Baltimore and Sherle) and we got it!!! In the video you can see how happy and tired we were! hahah and how we put it to sleep too:) Yeah. We did it on two separate occasions. But we still have yet to do it because we want to catch the rooster. Apparently they are a lot harder! hahaha

This is the first day of catching the chicken! :)

We were triumphant! haha

Ok the other miracle that I want to share. On Saturday we had two people prepared to be baptized! Henry and Wilmer. We had made plans with both of them to meet at the church at 3. As normal, we passed by their houses on the way, but neither were home and the people around didn't know where they had gone, so we hoped that they were all just in the church already. We got there and only Wilmer was there, sooo we got kind of nervous. We felt like there was something more we could do, so we set out looking for Henry at about 3:20. After about five minutes, I really felt like what we were doing was pointless. How were we going to find him, we have no clue where he is at! We are just walking around to be doing something......
So I suggested that we look for some better help, and say a prayer. We sat down right there in the street and offered a prayer. We told God that we were going to go back to the church, and that if it was His will, that Henry would be there in the church waiting for us. As we finished the prayer, I felt good, but at the same time I had my doubts. What if we just looked a little more! We might be able to find him! In the end, we decided that going to the church is what God was directing us to do so we did. As soon as I let go of the doubts and put my trust in the Lord, I felt really good. I just felt really peaceful. As we approached the church about 4 minutes later, we got a call from one of the other missionaries. "Henry is here, he is with me already changing into his white clothes!"
I cried. I really did, right there in the street. It was such an answer to our prayer, and so happy. I love this church, I love God, and Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost. I love PRAYER, and I love answers! :)

At the baptism of Henry and Wilmer!

Such a happy moment!

A couple more at the baptism.

The group shots from the baptism with Wilmer and Henry

Like I mentioned, there are many other stories and awesome things from the week, like that 2 of my investigators got thrown in jail in this same week. That is a good one! :) hahah Anyway. Oh yeah, I also did my first interview for baptism in Miskito!! It went really well too. It included many short phrases and hand motions, but it went well!!! So yeah! I love the mission!!!

Elder Moser

Other pics this week...