Week # 69 Trip to Panama...........

Well this week was a great week and I was able to enjoy many blessings here in the area. This week we went and chopped down the jungle in a members house and we built a garden in the mountain. I will have to send the pictures this next week. As for our investigators we continue to see new people ready for the gospel. My companion is fantastic and we are growing and learning each day. Also today we went and crossed the border into Panama! It was really cool and everything down there was about half the price of the same in Costa Rica so that was nice! Well i am loving the work and things are great. I hope that everyone is doing good. This gospel is fantastic and can make our lives much more joyful if we allow its teachings to reach deeper than the surface. 

I love you all!

Elder Ferrin

I found me a super cool cowboy hat from panama. What do you think?

Week #68 Birthday Cake and Fishing

This week was a fantastic week down in the Zona Sur. Again Thank You all for the happy birthday wishes and I really appreciate all the messages! So as for this week I was able to see several miracles and testimony building experiences. One of many was on last Monday night. My companion and I had went to visit all of our plans for Monday night and well sadly all of the plans fell through, And as luck would have it, it was raining as well. So as we were making our way to the highway to visit another family we walked up to a man standing under the roof of a corner store that had closed for the night. My companion and I felt that we should talk to him and so we went and acted as if we needed to get out of the rain as well, (even though we were already soaked) so as we talked to him he told us of his problems, no job, no family, no house, no money, and the list went on and on. Well after a short and powerful lesson we were able to help him and he is planning on being baptised the last week of November. So this week we are going to continue working and helping him find a job. 

Also this week we were able to have our zone conference with our mission president present on Saturday. They showed up and surprised me with a birthday cake and the zone all sang "Happy Birthday" and then we all ended with eating cake and had interviews with president. So this year my birthday was fantastic. 

Also we were able to go fishing this week again for p-day and well we had a little bit more success by pulling out a Slightly bigger fish but we are still looking for the big ones. 

Well everyone I love you and I hope that all is well with each one of you. Remember that there is nothing more precious than your testimonies of this gospel and be sure to try and strengthen it daily! 

Elder Ferrin

It warms a mother's heart to know that others can take care of our son.  

Thank you to a wonderful  Mission President and his family.

His favorite pass time, 

Love him!!

Week #67 Rio Claro De La Zona Sur

Well as you can tell from the photos I am in a new area that is completely different from my last one..My new area is called Rio Claro, My new companion is Elder Ruiz, and my new area is Amazing! I am looking forward to lots of miracles and learning opportunities in the next change. As you could see I am back in the jungle, I am actually less than an hour away from the border with Panama, and we are allowed to go down there on p-days to buy the food cheaper. I Love the area and the members that we have here already! The only bad part is we have to take a 8 hour bus ride to get down here from the capital. So there are very few trips to the office. But I am in the best place ever because today after 15 months I was able to go fishing with some members!! 

Best week EVER! so anyways I wish you all a great week and I love you all very much!! 

Elder Ferrin

Back where he love it!!

Week #66 Waters of Baptism........

This week the big news is that I was able to help 2 friends enter the waters of baptism. Gretel and Aura. It has been a true blessing to be in my area for the last 3 months but now it is time to move on. I do not know where until Wednesday when I have a meeting with president hayes but I know that it is what the lord wants for me. It is sad to be leaving my area right after a couple of baptism and it breaks my heart to have to leave my converts and the members there but I am looking forward for more opportunities to grow and learn. I love you all and I hope that you week goes great! Study and review the talks from conference again and look for missionary opportunities so that you can bless the lives of others each day! I know this gospel is true and I Know that our savior lives.  

Elder Ferrin

Week # 65 Zone Conference and General Conference..........

This week was a fast and furious week. We were blessed with a trip to the temple as a zone to prepare us for conference. The conference was also fantastic and I truly loved it! As a missionary I have grown to appreciate the general conference in a new way as I study and prepare for it. My testimony has grown of the prophets and apostles. I love you all and I hope that all is well. 

Elder Ferrin

 Los Yoses Zone

Elder Ferrin & Elder Chub

Elder Ferrin & Elder (still working on his name)

Leadership council 

Elder Carter & Elder Ferrin

Teaching in the Park

Crying repentance 

Lunch after teaching

Conference

Elders During General Conference

Week# 64 Here comes Confrence..........

Well it has been another week and things are going Well as always! This last week we were able to set up a booth in the park again and invite a bunch of people to general conference! So that was pretty great! We were un-able to baptise the 2 investigators that we had planned due to a couple little problems in the ward but we will finally be able to do it on the 10th of October. So I am excited to see that! Well aside from that this week was a pretty normal week of working and inviting a ton of people to conference this Saturday and Sunday. I hope you all are doing well, and I also hope that you all are able to hear conference this coming weekend! I love you all!

Elder Ferrin

Pictures:
My favorite picture taken of the day, one of my elders contacting and "crying repentance" :)
And then the lunch afterward with almost the whole zone was able to help with the contacting in the park.

Week #63 Blessings & Spiritual Experiences........

Well this last week was a fantastic week full of blessings and spiritual experiences, first off after I got home last week on Monday and I felt that I should call one of my converts from my first area. Well I had lost contact with him about 6 months ago. (his cell was not working since he was working in the jungle but I did not know that.) but anyways last monday I felt I should call him and well guess what? he answered and, well right away he realized who I was, and yelled "Brother Ferrin!!" he yelled it so happy that it surprised me an awful lot. He told me that he had been wishing that he could call me all that day and since he had lost my phone number he couldn't. Well he started to tell me a ton of information! First that he has started a temple fund so that in December he can come down to the temple and go through with me! He also had some other news that he will have another child in his family, with his wife in Nicaragua, and this week he goes back to stay for a few months to take care of his little family, but he told me that he is going to have a baby boy and that they are going to name him "Austin René Altamirano" I will not lie, I cried a lot as I talked to him and heard him tell me of how grateful that we taught him and gave him this gospel. Man I am so happy to have contact with him again! 
Later on thursday I had planned a baptismal interview for a lady that has had to go through a long process of repentance and so in preparation for the interview I spent two days of personal study preparing for the interview. I Spent most of my time studying about the atonement, and its role in our lives. Well As I showed up with her and started the interview and as I began the interview she cried an awful lot, explaining her desire to be baptized for the last 6 years and well it was a very spiritual experience and to make the story short as I was finishing up the interview she had a couple questions and one of them was "does it hurt to repent" and I went over Alma 37 with her and explained how Alma felt as he was repenting, later as I got to verse 40 where it talks about the great joy that alma felt she stopped me and said "Elder can you please read me that verse again?" and so I read it again and she told me that the night before she had dreamt about that same verse of scripture and how she had been wondering why those words were in her mind all day long. Well to not make the story too long, I was able to finish the interview with her and I am happy to say that she will be able to be baptised this coming saturday with her two sons, after 6 years of waiting. I love my job. 
Well as you can probably tell things are going fantastic here and I love every little challenge that we have. I love you all and I hope that each and everyone of you are doing great as well. Take care this week and Just stay strong in the gospel please, I know that, that is the only way that we will all be happy. 

This a little booth they set up in the park and share the gospel with those who come by.