New Pictures With My Zone

Hello family!

It's good to hear that everyone is doing good! I'm doing good too! This week has been a lot better I have been a lot more humble so no worries ha-ha. I am trying to just accept how people do things here and why they do it. I'm sorry that last letter I sent wasn’t too positive that was the hardest week of my life….But this week was a lot better and so I'm a lot happier.

This week we had a baptism, we baptized a members son whose name is Alexander. It was a different kind of baptism….He was afraid of water and we didn’t know it…So first we went to invite ward members to the baptism but nobody could come because it was at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. When the family got there (his mom and grandma) the grandma was all sad that no one came to the baptism, I felt bad too.

So we are at the baptism and my companion is the one baptizing him. Says the prayer then baptizes him but (Alexander’s) legs fly’s up, so we did it again. Then I told them they need to drain the water a little bit so his legs don’t keep floating to the top. So they drain the water and then he just starts crying and ran to the side of the font. They talk to him and ask what’s wrong? I'm like “I think he’s afraid of the water” then his mom gets all embarrassed and runs up and is like “hurry it up, people are watching” and then he starts crying even more and she starts pushing him in to the water (and I was just thinking “wow”). Then she starts dragging him into the water. I was thinking, “say something nice to him, show him you love him and are proud that he is being baptized, hug him.” And she finally did and he calmed down and got baptized.

And the other cool thing is, is I taught my very first class. Gospel Principles and I loved it!! And my class loved it! One of the ladies was a less active that showed up to church that day and she told me she will go to church just to go to my class. Guess you’re not the only teacher dad! Haha

Well I love you all and thank you for everything.

Elder Buck

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The first slideshow is of Elder Buck at the beach with his Zone on the Pacific Ocean side of Nicaragua.




This is what Elder Buck's leg looked like before he had the little operation a few weeks ago to remove the Bot Fly larva from his heg.