Successes

Hola Familia!


Hello everyone....this week was a little bit longer I think ha-ha. They say if it’s long that means that you are not working hard, but I would love ‘to beg to differ’. This week was so HARD ha-ha. But I am happy to say we ended it just the way I planned it.

News about the mission, Elder Jensen the Pres. of the Seventy and the Apostle Elder D. Todd Christoferson are coming here to Nicaragua and I will be able to have the privilege to hear from them both I MIGHT EVEN GET TO SHAKE THERE HANDS!!!

Sorry Carly your back in school...no worries you will be done in May. Have you been to sell any of the programs you have made Dad?

Well as far as this week we had planned 5 baptisms one to complete the Baptism of Manuel and Manuel jr. and their family!! I love that family they are so awesome! Aaaah....im going to miss Nicaragua I really am....:(
I have done so much here and still so much I want to do.

As far as being a district leader it’s awesome, I love it. Being able to help out my district of 8 people is really quite a responsibility. I would like to try to talk about my week.

Last Monday was way fun, after P-day we went to Fam: Rodriguez’s house and had a family home evening with them. (That’s the family that was baptized this week) The son Manuel guided the program and we had some members over to lead the music and and say the prayer. Then the best part Manuel the dad gave the lesson, he gave it on Agency. He is so funny he was ‘evangelico’ before he was baptized and so when he gave the lesson he sounded like a pastor but it was a really good lesson! Then at the end the mom (Giovanni) she gave the refreshments and played a game.

Then on Tuesday we had District Meeting. From 8:30 till 11:30am its pretty hard teaching my district and helping them understand better the doctrine of Christ in 3 hours but I love it. The spirit was pretty strong. I taught from 8:30 till 10:00am then we took out our vision of how many people we want to get baptized this week and how we were going to do it, then from 10:15-11:30am we did practices on the lessons to help us be better teachers and practice for real investigators.

Then at 2:00pm we went to visit a woman her name is Flor she is one of our progressing investigators. We are just waiting for her to get baptized ha-ha but I think it will be a while. Then at 3:00pm we found a new family named Familia Martinez they are a family of 5 but the husband is a member but in active. They really liked what we taught them and we could feel the spirit most importantly because that is what we are really trying to focus on.

Then from there all our other visits fell through so we just went contacting.

Then on WEDNESDAY in the morning at 7:00am I went to one of the areas in my district and did the interview with a guy named Nelson. That guy was pretty strange, 3 minutes into the interview I could already tell this guy wasn’t ready to be baptized and that was even before I asked him the baptismal interview questions. Interesting it turned out he had only being to church once in his life but has been investigating the church for about 6 years. He had quite a few problems so he didn’t pass. We helped him feel good about preparing for a baptism in the next weeks to come and to fix his problems were he had some.

Then at 3:00pm I went to one of my other districts in Villa Venezuela and did the interview for them. But when we first got there the Family that I was going to do the interview with wasn’t home. (I would like to tell you a little bit about this family. So when we went to do the interviews they weren’t home because there was a little incident. The man José Eric is a guard at his work and he works 24 hour shifts. The night before the interview there was a gang that came up and wanted to rob him but they didn’t know he was a guard cuz he carries his pistol in his holster underneath of his jacket that he wears. When they came up the guy had a gun and tried shooting him in the leg but they shot Jose by his phone, keys and the gun itself so the bullet didn’t do anything. It did make a big bruise in his leg and kind of a hole. We found out he was in the hospital but was suppose to come back that same day.

Well they came home at around 5.30pm that afternoon. I started talking with the family and started doing the interviews the guy still had some problems but passed because I talked with my zone leaders just to make sure, and the daughter who was 9 years old. But the mom whose name is Rosario didn’t not pass because she did not want to give up coffee, and she didn’t not know anything about the word of wisdom.....grrr...I don’t like when missionaries just try to baptize people with out preparing them. The next day before the baptism of her husband and daughter she drank not only coffee BUT BEER!!. Ha-ha Wow what a rebel, but she went to church this Sunday.


Well I would love to finish with the week but I am out of time.

I love you all so much!!!

Elder Buck