August 6th Email

HOLA FAMILIA!!!

     Like yours my week has been everything but expected!! There have been so many surprises I don't even know where to start!! This week I found out that we had interviews with the mission president. It was actually really good to talk with him and see how he can help me!! At first, I was a little scared because I have never had an interview however, it was great and we talked about things that I could improve and how I can learn to become a better missionary! He explained how I could strengthen my faith in the work and he challenged me to develop in Christ like attributes every day!!! I have really been analyzing my weaknesses know that I have many and slowly but surely working on those to make them strong! I was able to speak with the wife of the president and that was great too! I learned that I am supposed to be speaking with Elder Veron in the house in English!! ha ha ha that's fun for me because he sees how hard it really is to talk with someone and they have no idea what you are saying! It's a good thing we both have really developed patience! However, later that day we were talking with one of our investigators and she had been really reluctant on being baptized because she didn't feel like she could and that she wasn't worthy! However, she was READY and it was only that she needed to commit! In the lesson we taught about how important it is to follow Jesus Christ and we for her to commit!!! In this lesson I felt the spirit stronger than than any other lesson I have taught I felt every word come out of my mouth being testified before me. She had told us after her baptism that in that moment she felt like angels were talking to her! I dont' consider myself an angel however to them I realized we are just that. She had been struggling with things in her family and her mom and dad left the family to move to the United States and she and her brothers have been living in Nicaragua. However the family is really separated and they don't talk with her so it was good that we got her to commie because she needs the love of God and Christ right now!! Saturday was the baptism and her and I were both nervous for this big day!! IT was my first baptism!! When she entered the water and came back out I not only saw but felt a difference in her!! Then on Sunday she was able to receive the gift of the Holy Ghost and I was able to participate in that! The power in those blessings are real and they are truely lighted up and just like a whole different person!  She was happy and full of love!! IT Was a great experience to see how much we are blessed to have this in out lives and how much it can bless out lives!! This week also we had a district as well as a zone meeting! They were both great and during these meeting we talk about our challenges and the challenges of the investigators. In the zone meeting we learned about planning and differnt subjects in Preach my Gospel!! It was great andI was able to learn a lot and have been really trying to apply those things in my life!! However, during the zone meeting I expeirenced something very different......I FELT AN EARTHQUAKE!!! It was the weirdest thing ever! I felt litk I was in a movie everything was shaking and ahhh it was cool however it was scary too......Later that night there were 3 other aftershocks! I guess the ground is really active right now! However I haven't really felt anything since that! Yesterday in the night there was a small one and it took out all the lights of Masaya!!! It was so cool the night sky lit up like a light! It was really and marvelous sight!! However that was my week it's been going well. The baptism was awesome and I felt the spirit so strong! We are planning on another one this week of a lady with 3 kids! If things so well we will have one more the following for a family!!! It brings me such joy to see the change in these people and how much the gospel is a light to the world and how much it can bring joy and happiness and peace in tine of hard!!

I love you all so much I send my love and prayers!
Elder Trujillo