Week #62 No Taco Bell Please......

His letter was really short today, He was busy and just said  a few things:


Well to start off last week after I ended our Email I started to not feel very well.  We had ate at Taco Bell and I was starting to have a bad stomach ache.  I was sick for about 24 hours and then we were able to get back out and teach.  Nothing really to report this week.  To top it off I had a Ingrown Toenail too.  But things are great.  

As a parent I will take even 5 mins just to talk if that is all I can get.  

Sending extra Prayer this week.

Week #61 Saludos a gringolandia‏...........

Well how is everyone this week? Things down here in Costa Rica are going great! This last week was a very hot week but since I am in a cooler area things are not too bad for us. This last week was pretty crazy for us since there are many new missionaries in our zone and there is a new set of Elders that are opening an area. So with new houses, new areas, and all of the fun that comes with that we had a little bit less time to work in our area this week. 

It came down to Sunday night and we still hadn't met our goal of new investigators in our area for the week and so my companion and I were really trying to find those chosen families to teach. Well last night at about 6 o clock we were missing 4 new people and we had a little extra time before our next appointment and so we decided to search for a family. Well as we were walking and trying to discern where the spirit wanted us to go we continued to walk down a new little alley in the area, one that we have never been to before and well it turned out to be a dead end. So what did we do? We decided to contact the last house on the street and well long story short we were able to teach a great little family that is already married which is almost unheard of here! So even though it may sound like a simple little story it was a true little tender mercy for us to find them. This week we will continue to teach them and I feel really good about them. 

Another thing that I came to realize this last week was that the joy of sharing this gospel with people that don't know about it yet is one of the best feelings that I have come to feel in the last year of my mission. Giving that hope and peace to people that deeply need it is such a blessing for me! I truly love my calling. 

Well I hope that everyone has a great day and an even better week! And just a quick HAPPY BIRTHDAY to one of my best friends Syster Nielsen over there in Sweden! I hope that it goes great!

Take care everyone and I love you all!! 

Please share this gospel. There will be deep regrets in the eternities if we don't.   We cannot have a single empty seat in the celestial kingdom!  

con mucho cariño y amor,

Elder Ferrin

D&C 6:33

Fear not to do good, my sons, for whatsoever ye sow, that shall ye also reap; therefore, if ye sow good ye shall also reap good for your reward. 

and look who I ran into today in the central park? 

Good ol, Elder Kirk. 

Since he is in the other mission that doesn't happen much. 

This picture was sent from a SR couple that is serving with Elder Ferrin. 

 They are from South Weber and send us Pictures when they run into Elder Ferrin.  

We sure love them.  Thank you Brother & Sister Petersen.

Well I was walking down the street the other day and then I heard a strange sound and my shoe felt funny.... well that nifty little plastic bar that comes on the inside of your shoes? ya mine finally fell out,  the shoes were doing real good till that happened.

so I took them to a member that fixes shoes and well.... in a couple of days he had them looking brand new! 

More or less... and well 10 dollars later we are back in business! 

Week # 60 Damaged Pride.........

Hey everyone, how are things this week?? sounds like things are going really well back home. Looks like last week was really full of fun activities and events. This last week I had a good time as well. I  had a slightly embarrassing moment in the house of an investigator and with a member... we were teaching a lesson to a single lady and her daughter about the priesthood (we were going to give the lady a priesthood blessing because she fell) and so the lesson was really spiritual and going really well until I decided to get a little bit more comfortable. (so usually while I teach I have the habit of sitting on the edge of my seat so I am participating a little more in the conversation and it shows that I really care about what we are teaching) and so as I let my companion take his turn speaking and teaching.  I slid back to sit in the chair in a normal way and well as I leaned my back on the back rest I hear a loud CRACK  and the next thing I know is I am on my back on the floor with my feet in the air.... The back legs of the plastic lawn chair broke into about a million pieces....well needless to say the spirit left quickly and everyone in the room was on the floor laughing. Literally my companion fell out of his chair laughing at me and the member, well he speaks English, and he just kept saying to me, "elder it's alright, you're going to remember this for a long time"  he laughed as well. Long story short we were able to bring the spirit back by singing a hymn and all ended well. So  to be honest the family that we were teaching now is planning on getting baptised next month. So all is well here, just a little bit of damaged pride but nothing else. :) hope that this story comes across as funny as it was for everyone else. I love you guys and have a great week! 

Elder Austin Ferrin

Week #59 Hope you enjoy school..............

Well this was another fantastic week, We were able to do divisiones with the assistants to president and things went really well, we were also able to find a few families this last week. This last week the highlight of the week was definitely being able to hear from president Russell m. Nelson! He did a live video call to our mission and spoke to us for about 2 hours. I could feel strongly the presence of the spirit! He spoke to us, gave us all study topics to study,  and also gave us all a special blessing. That was saturday. This coming week we will be ending another change and that should be exciting. Well this week i was able to see the need to truly love the way christ does. A true christlike love truly can bless our lives as well as the lives of others. I hope that each of you know the importance of this gospel in our lives and the true treasure that the book of mormon is for each and every one of us! Have a great week everyone and i love you all!

Elder Ferrin

Week # 58 Happy Costa Rican Mother Day.......

Hey everyone how are things going for you all? well i was going to send a message saying happy mothers day today since last Saturday was mother's day here in Costa Rica but since i am not emailing anybody from Costa Rica right now i won't worry about it too much. :) This last week was a great week and i was able to do divisions with an old companion of mine that is now in my zone. things went well and i was able to learn and i hope he was able to learn a thing or two as well. the weather here has continued to be much much cooler and i cannot lie, i am loving the cool weather!!!! i no longer sweat like crazy. :) also this last week we were able to find a couple of great families in our area! Also this last week my companion and i took control of one of the district meetings and we made it into a mini zone conference to teach a few principles to the zone. I only took about 15 minutes but as i was planning i had planned to teach a few things about urgency or something else like that but right before i started to teach i felt the impression to change everything... i am not sure exactly why i changed but i got up and started to share about how we need to have more love for the gospel. i then shared a scripture that has grown to become a favorite for me. D&C 6:20. as i read that scripture i felt a new love for my zone and for this gospel. Well as i continued it was tough to keep my emotions under control as i felt a love for this gospel and a new desire for it to be shared. It is my wish that all of us can understand that same spirit and love for this gospel  so that we all may be able to share it with a new love and desire. I love you all and i ask that the spirit be with you all in your daily tasks. I love you and have a great week. 

Elder Ferrin

 Leadership council

Elder Ferrins Zone

 with President & Sister  Hayes & Elder Duncan

Week # 57 Leadership Counsel..............

Hello family! it was so good to hear from you this week and i am glad to hear that things all turned out alright with the crazy week of adventures. and i am especially glad to hear that scooter made it out fine. try to keep him alive please, we don't need to lose both of our horses while i am out on the mission. anyways this was a great week and i LOVED all the training and meetings that we had with Elder Duncan. He taught a lot of wonderful stuff and also scared me to death. :) While we were in our leadership counsel he called me and my companion out of no where and told us that we had 20 seconds to teach him the primer principles of the Restoration and that we couldn't talk for more than seven seconds each, and he wanted to feel the spirit while we taught him. well he said we did good and i got a thumbs up from president. :) Also today for p-day we were able to go play laser tag with a few other missionaries which was a great time! anyways things went really well aside from the time that we lost being out of the area for two days of work. I really enjoyed the week and we were able to fix a few things in our area and so things went well this week. I hope that this week we can find even more success and come closer to our divine potential. I hope that we all can understand the divine potential that the lord has given us and that we will not only reach it but someday excel it. 
I love you all and i hope that you all have a safe and great week!!!

Elder Ferrin

Family Conservation because we were all home at the same time:

Hi son, it is good to hear that you enjoyed the training and that would be scary to be called upon at a moments notice. 

Elder Ferrin: 

ya but it was fun when we were done. it was just startling because i was taking notes and then i heard him say,elders, i want you to teach me" and well i figured he was talking to others and so i looked up and he was standing right in front of us. But it was really great to hear so much and learn so much! 

US:

How is the work going? anything new with the area or assignments?

Elder Ferrin: 

nothing new really. Just lots of new counsel and we have to shift our goals in the area a little bit. but things are going well!

He said this is his new companion he found at the mall.  

                                                                          More mall Fun!!

Week # 56 Voy a escribir en español y nadie me va a entender... :) (casi nadie)‏

Bueno,
How are you guys this week?? Things here are going great as always.  
I love the area and I love being a missionary! 
This week was a very interesting and fantastic week! We had the blessing of going on divisions with the Mission President and studying with him! First off I would like to say how awesome it is to have a personal study with your Mission President and then later go and teach with him! I loved it! President Hayes is such a great man and I hope someday to be blessed with the incredible knowledge that he has of the scriptures! Along with that it was a true blessing to receive so much counsel from him. This week was a good one for the area as well. We found a few families and we hope to help them progress to baptism in the next few weeks! Also this week BYU Idaho came to Costa Rica and danced and taught about the Proclamation to the Family in a little dance show thing here in San Jose. President Hayes let us go and take investigators and that was really neat and fun to see. I am doing great as for health and of course I am trying to work and learn as much as possible! Thank you for all the love and support that you all give me and I hope that things go well back home for fair week. I love you all! 

Elder Ferrin

BYU IDAHO dancers

Another beautiful view from his apartment.