STAYIN' HUNGRY October 10, 2016

WORKING HARD!!

People of the ol´ USA, how goes it? This is basically my life right now: Tin shacks, rain everyday, MUD, bolos, tons of hard work, crazy people, and a kick butt comp! Elder Hobbs is the hard working mule of Nicaragua. The dude goes home in 2 weeks, but he still gives it his all every single day. Grateful I got placed in a home with such a loving dad who provides. Shout out to Elder Koch up in Mexico! Getting close to the field big guy. Good luck man! And of course, shout out to my homies all over the world. Just like Elder Erickson said, ´´D&C 88:133 still applies´´ 

This is how the beloved week went:

Tuesday we had a meeting for all the new missionaries in the mission in Managua. We had to get up at 4 AM to catch a 5:15 bus to the city. Freakin´ loco, but the meeting was super awesome. President Ponocio and Hermana Ponocio are thee most loving, genuine people. They talked about the importance of becoming a consecrated missionary and giving your ALL for the Lord during your service. Inspiring it ´twas!

Wednesday we had District Meeting then worked our booties off in Sor Maria. I bought some Nica scripture cases from this member in Matagalpa. He showed me some samples of the drawings he does on them and they are DOPE! I should get them in the coming days. I´ll send some pictures :)

On Thursday, we hiked up to this pueblo way up in the mountains above Sor Maria. We got SO flippin´ muddy (rained super hard). We walk 35 minutes every night from Sor Maria to Matagalpa because there are no buses that pass at 9:00 at night. Some dude hooked us up with a ride in the bed of his truck thought! Blessed.

Friday we were supposed to have interviews with Pres. but he had an emergency in Managua so he had to split before we could talk with him. I was bummed, I was really looking forward to talking to him :(

Saturday we just worked so dang hard trying to find people to bring to church!

Sunday´s are a little bit loco. You get up super early and got to your area looking for people to bring to church. We ran all over our area searching for our people to get them to church. The problem was that Matagalpa had a baseball game in the city so nobody wanted to go to church. All of our investigators ended up bailing. We only had 18 in our meeting, but the Spirit was there (see my scripture below). We then went searching for people for the 2 o´clock meeting in Matagalpa. As we were looking for our last investigator, I just felt a little discouraged that everyone bailed on us. I even asked my comp if we did something wrong. He didn´t say anything and we just kept searching. Finally, at our last house, our investigator, Mauricio stayed true to his word. Plus, he invited a FRIEND. We were so pumped. I love the Lord and how he blesses us. He just expects us to work to the very end. Keep fighting and searching for those elect!

Funny story: I was hanging at the bus stop and some drunk wandered by and starting talking to us. He had a cool Cuba hat on, so I told him I liked it and he tried to GIVE it me! HA, I freakin´ love the Nicas. Thee nicest people, even when they have no idea what is going on. 

So ends another novel from Elder Campbell. Keep enjoying football and the American food. Halloween is dang close, get pumped for that! Is it going to be Trump or Hilary? Someone flippin´ tell me! Love you guys!

Elder Campbell

Scriptures:

Ether 12:32 ´´Heavenly Mansions baby´´

Moroni 7:47 ´´The classic! Charity!

Matt 18:20 ´´There I am in the middle of you.´´

Luke 22:54-62 ´´Imagine being Peter. Frick!´´

Revelations 21:1-4 ´´New Jerusalem. What a time it´ll be.´´

Pictures:

1. Caught up with good ol´ McCord!

2. The coolest little pueblo in those mtns.

3. MATAGALPA or GTF(flip)O

4. The Grand White Catholic Church (dang)

5. Chili Picantes with my dad. Ft. the new haircut