Naksa Familiki

Naksa! Hello (in Miskitu). Nakisma familiki? How are you my family?

I am HOME! Hahaha. Okay, I am in the place that makes me feel like I'm home. I feel super excited to be here again. I almost do not have any words to explain how great it feels to be back here on the coast with the wonderfully fantastic Miskitu people. This week I left Managua on Thursday morning and got to Puerto Cabezas close to noon. I got off the airplane and simply cried. I breathed in the sea air, heard people speaking in Miskitu and almost lost it. All last week my life felt like a dream, then when I got off the plane the reality hit. I'm back. I'm home (basically). Time to get to work. We had a zone meeting right after we got out of the airport and then went out to work. We still haven't divided my area and we need to do it rather quickly, for I really want to start finding families and people to get progressing so that we can start a baptizing MACHINE in April.

In the hope of making my letters better I have devised a new way of writing to you all. Hope you enjoy. It was...PURE REVELATION. Bahahaha.

Funny Experience: 
I was sitting eating my lunch (a cool burger) this afternoon when my zone leaders walked up to be with mail. I had a letter but I didn't recognize the address. It was from Provo, so I thought that it was from a friend from BYU. I was right, it was from a good friend from not only BYU, but from Franklin too! It was Crystal's wedding announcement. I was looking at it and almost everyone in the zone looked at it, enjoyed the photography and said, "what a cute couple!" SO, now a bunch of missionaries like MegRuth Photography and Jack and Crystal's cute wedding announcement.

Quote of the Week:
"You're back? For how long?!" and "I'm not Psyduck!" (lengthy nighttime discussion about Pokemon)

Lesson Learned:
The Lord gives us the things that we really want and the things that we really need. Sometimes we need to have our faith tried a little to make sure that He can trust us more. Managua was more of a trial period for me, and now I have been returned to "Celestial Glory". Hahahaha. :) 
I was walking around my old/new area and visiting people that I had been teaching when I left, and I was able to see a lot of my converts in church, church activities, etc. It was fun seeing their faces light up and see how much I have meant to the people here in Puerto Cabezas; to see that I have actually affected people's lives.

Companion:
My companion is Elder Holman. He is from Colorado, is 20 years old, has a year on the mission, and is quite funny. He is a goof, and makes me laugh a lot. We are learning Miskitu together and are having a blast. Our Branch President is teaching us, as well as everyone in the city (by being patient and helping me learn vocabulary and need-to-know phrases). We are just focused on baptizing and learning the language right now, and with some time, we will start training the leaders of the church here how to teach the doctrine of the church. We are called to basically train others so that they can teach correct principles after we leave. 

Clarification:
There is a possibility that the Church could use us to translate things for them; however, in discussing the translation of the Book of Mormon with our Mission President we discovered that the Church is serious about this. They do a serious study of the need, they go and survey to see if there are peope qualified to translate such a text (whether they be members or not). Everntually they start a translation, but it takes awhile. Mom, the Book of Mormon had already been translated into Quechí and Quiché. Both. Hahaha.

Well, I love you. Each and every one of you. I know that this is the True Church. I know that the Book of Mormon is the word of God, and was written for our time. I know that miracles exist and that God is a God of miracles. I am one, I am living one too. I know that revelation is real and that we can be guided in every aspect of our lives if we embrace the Spirit and try to keep him with us.

Mai Latwansna (I love you),
Elder B