Ben's Mission to Nicaragua: We Preach of Christ

What a great week!!! Although we saw trials among all of the great times this week, the misión is just an awesome experience always!!

On a sad note, for the momento. Adan left for the sea. And just so you know, that is super common here because people just leave all the time to go work. And when they go, they are out in the ocean for like 12-15 days..... so he will be out of the picture for a little while. But when we left him, he was doing awesome and he loves the church and everything. So we are just praying that he can have a safe trip (because that job really isn't all that safe) and that he will be strong against the many temptations of drugs and alcohol in the sea. That is something really sad about here. Almost all of the men that work in the sea spend much of the money that they make on Joyita, the drink of the devil. I hate it so much because it is the absolute number one obstacle in the work here in Puerto!!! But we work our way around it. Almost all the members of the church here were heavy drinkers before their conversión. So that is testimony that they can change. I mean Julio, Henry, Jierson, all of them were drinkers but they turned their lives around.

But on some great news, China´s mother is basically all ready for baptism!! We are kind of just waiting for the date to come! She understands so well when we teach her, and when we ask questions she can always respond so deeply!! That is so uncommon for many people here! So I just love teaching her because she learns so well! And she is being a great example for her children. Something cool is that her two older kids were baptized 5 years ago, and when we found them, they were all inactive! So when we baptized China, they started to come with the mom and now Olympia wants to be baptized too! She brings the whole family to church! It is so awesome!!

So it really isn't only the sea that causes people to travel! People also go to communities. For instance, Waspam, Siuna, Rosita, Bonanza. Those are all communities where people just go to live and the weird part is there is no telling when or why people will just pick up and leave to go live in a community. But it happens all the time. We have a couple that left to the communities a while back, and have plans to come back Thursday so that they can just pick right back up where they were and get baptized on Saturday!! So we are hoping that they can make it here safely!! So yeah, people here just leave out of no where!! Sometimes it is so frustrating!!!!

I also wanted to share a small thought this week! There is a recent convert that I have gotten kind of close to from another area whose name is Erick. And he is super cool!! But last week he was getting a bit shaky in his testimony because he felt like in the church, not many people preached of Christ. Especially in their testimonies, he really didn't like that everyone was saying that they knew that this church was true (like I mentioned last week). It got me thinking about how much we preach that Christ directs this church, that we follow his guide, through the prophet. I know that Christ directs this church through a prophet in these days, and that he also directs the missionary work. We need to always preach of Christ in all that we say and do. Our examples are just as loud, if not louder, than out words! We need to be representatives of Christ in all that we do and say. Not representatives of a "true organization of people" but of our Savior.

Love you!

Elder Moser

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