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Me with my Zone...

Me playing in kiddy car...

Me inside a real transportation bus....not much more room than the kiddy car!

Dear Family,

This will be a short email, I do not have much time to write today. My new area is awesome! As of now I do not have anymore health problems. 

As far as what has happened this week, Luis the man we baptised last week, did not come to church this Sunday so he was not confirmed. We went to his home and we were told he was not there.  We have another family that Elder Harris has been teaching for 6 months and they finally committed to baptism.  Elder Harris said it was because of something I said in my lesson. The family has had challenges of keeping the commandments and I asked them why? They didn't reply so I explained to them the importance of repentance and baptism. I said we need to repent as soon as we know we have done wrong because it can be too late. I asked the dad if he knew when he was going to die, and he got mad and told me I wasn't God and stormed off...He then returned to the room and said he was sorry for getting mad and that he understood what I was trying to say. The next evening my companion and I visited the home again, it was around 8 p.m. and the father was asleep so we were teaching the teenagers and mom. The dad woke up and came in and joined the lesson but sat quietly through the lesson until we were going to say the prayer. I asked hermano if he had anything he would like to say, then this is what he said, "I have been thinking about what you said, so I have repented and now I want to be baptised!!! HOW COOL IS THAT!  My companion almost cried because he has been working so long with this family.

Now for my other news like I said last week, I have so many things stolen since I got to Nicaragua that many items need to be replaced, especially my white dress shirts and white t-shirts to wear on P-day. The women use wire metal brushes to clean our clothes and she has worn big holes in two of mine. I also need new undergarments since three bottoms disappeared. (Note from Sandra: we hope he has enough to wear between washings that he does have to go native commando!)

Also send the other items I have asked for in the past posts.  Thanks for everything and I will write again next week.

Love you all,
Elder Buck

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