Hello family and friends! How are you all doing? The life down in here is hot but super great! First off I love you all!
As for this week we were able to give service again on Saturday and you can officially call me a "Beaner" because we went and helped harvest beans! It was a really neat experience to know how the whole process works and realize how much work it is for such a small little plate of food. A great and fun experience for me but I think my companion hated me a little for having offered to help... haha he was pretty worn out after we finished.
As for the other part of the week it was a great week as we were able to find a couple of really great new families to teach and so as we continue this week in teaching them we will see if they can come to church.
Also this coming Wednesday we have to go to San Jose again (7 hours in bus... ) and we will get the hear from Elder Ochoa of the quorum of the 70 as he teaches us in a special meeting just for our mission. I am really excited because he has asked us to study and prepare for the meeting and I can tell it is going to be a wonderful experience.
This week I was able to bless the sacrament and as I sat there after having taken the bread I sat thinking about how each week I have come to look forward to the sacrament more and more. I began to think about how many times I have said during that meeting that I will do better and improve in the coming week, and how many times I have had to ask for forgiveness for the silly and simple faults that I make each week. As I realized how unworthy I am of being forgiven so many times, and how badly I need the atonement each day, my heart filled with gratitude for the atoning sacrifice of our savior. The words of the hymn "I Stand all Amazed" came to my mind and felt a greater love for my savior after having realized that we are all "unworthy creatures" as the king Noah taught.
I love you all and I pray that we all may be humble enough to ask for Christ's help for we cannot make it back to our Father in Heaven without him.
Elder Ferrin
the pictures of when we went to help with the harvest.
We asked about the service project and this is what he had to say:
to be honest i thought i was going to die... They plant these beans on the sides of the mountains and in the middle of the jungle so it is a huge pain in the butt to get to them, later you have to pick them and put them inside a great big sheat and beat them with a stick after you have toasted them in the sun for about an hour and you just hit them with this stick until they all fall out of the casing and then you pick them up, fill the bag and carry it back out of the jungle to the house. I WAS EXHAUSTED but it was a ton of fun! I have missed doing that kind of work. :)
As for this week we were able to give service again on Saturday and you can officially call me a "Beaner" because we went and helped harvest beans! It was a really neat experience to know how the whole process works and realize how much work it is for such a small little plate of food. A great and fun experience for me but I think my companion hated me a little for having offered to help... haha he was pretty worn out after we finished.
As for the other part of the week it was a great week as we were able to find a couple of really great new families to teach and so as we continue this week in teaching them we will see if they can come to church.
Also this coming Wednesday we have to go to San Jose again (7 hours in bus... ) and we will get the hear from Elder Ochoa of the quorum of the 70 as he teaches us in a special meeting just for our mission. I am really excited because he has asked us to study and prepare for the meeting and I can tell it is going to be a wonderful experience.
This week I was able to bless the sacrament and as I sat there after having taken the bread I sat thinking about how each week I have come to look forward to the sacrament more and more. I began to think about how many times I have said during that meeting that I will do better and improve in the coming week, and how many times I have had to ask for forgiveness for the silly and simple faults that I make each week. As I realized how unworthy I am of being forgiven so many times, and how badly I need the atonement each day, my heart filled with gratitude for the atoning sacrifice of our savior. The words of the hymn "I Stand all Amazed" came to my mind and felt a greater love for my savior after having realized that we are all "unworthy creatures" as the king Noah taught.
I love you all and I pray that we all may be humble enough to ask for Christ's help for we cannot make it back to our Father in Heaven without him.
Elder Ferrin
the pictures of when we went to help with the harvest.
We asked about the service project and this is what he had to say:
to be honest i thought i was going to die... They plant these beans on the sides of the mountains and in the middle of the jungle so it is a huge pain in the butt to get to them, later you have to pick them and put them inside a great big sheat and beat them with a stick after you have toasted them in the sun for about an hour and you just hit them with this stick until they all fall out of the casing and then you pick them up, fill the bag and carry it back out of the jungle to the house. I WAS EXHAUSTED but it was a ton of fun! I have missed doing that kind of work. :)
This week we had a glitch in emailing we sent responses but never heard back much,
hope he knows he is love and missed.
Just guess that what happens in the jungle area.
Maybe next week will be better.
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