Week # 8 Wonderful things this week.............

so here in guanacaste costa rica things are going great!!!!! i love the work and the people could not get any better! so i would like to share a little story to explain how much i love this place...

 so first off the last week has been great. 12 more people have baptismal dates and they all are on track still but we were having a hard time doing work with the members and no one wanted to help us so we were haveing a hard time with it all... we were praying, fasting, being 100% obedient and then some. there was litterally nothing else we could do. we had a day where all of our appointments fell through and i just was very discouraged. we worked for two days in the rain getting soaked and nothing was going right like it should be. but we kept working and being obedient like i needed to be and i somehow knew things would work out ok. well as we went through the park on our way home friday night we did some contacts because we hadnt quite made it to our goal for the day and i felt a need to go talk to a little family that was walking through the park so we started over there and after we talked to him and had set up an appointment i bore my testimony on eternal families and he was extremely excited to know about it and wanted us to come teach him as soon as possible!! well that was a big boost of energy and we started saturday with a new found energy! well it rained most of the morning and we got started in the light rain and lots of thunder. (which we decided not to carry our umbrella after the lightning struck a tree next to us....) so we were soaked but we went and walked about 10 miles (is what my companion and i figure after looking at our map saturday night) and invited all of our investigators to church. well sunday came and we had about 8 people in church and that was a huge blessing for us! following that we had a referal given to me and elder soza by the old branch president. well as we walked home after lunch to do some study time we walked through that same park and my companion and i felt impressed to talk to a man sitting there and came to find out that he was actually our referral!!! odd huh? well after that we invited him to the late night branch sacrament for those that have to work on sunday mornings and he came with his new fiance. so after we gave him a tour of the church and when we got to the picture of christ being baptized by john the baptist in the church i explained what it was. he asked if that is how we baptized, i said yes, and after looking at his wife he said to me "quiero ser bautisado en este iglesia" well... i dont speak a lot of spanish but i understand enough to know that means "i want to be baptised in this church." well i thought i had heard him wrong so i look at my companion with my usual confused look and he looks back with that same confused look and we both just instantly bust up laughing!!!! well as we are laughing and trying to make sure that he meant what he said and this man sets up a meeting with the branch president on his own!! well needless to say that as soon as him and his wife have been to church 3 times he will be baptized with his wife! we taught him lesson one last night and lesson two tonight! THIS MAN IS PREPARED BY THE LORD all i can say is that i am blessed beyond belief!!! the lord does bless us if we do what he asks with no doubt or question why. i hope you all feel my love and are doing good wherever you are and i testify this church is true without a doubt in the name of jesus christ amen.

Elder Ferrin

the costa rican cowboy.

ps. this photo is one my companion took of my tracting the bus today on our way to the beach