Bello Amancer Week 40

Well it’s your friendly neighborhood Elder Hironaka. This week was a great week. It was fun and I have crazy news.

We have been teaching a boy named Aminadar for the past 3 weeks. His family is not active but do support and like the church. The family used to be active but then had a problem and felt like they could no longer attend. The problem came about after the oldest brother had prepared for his mission and had received his call. On the day he was to leave for the MTC at the airport they found out that he and the family had lied about his age. He was only 17!  Crazy, right? So, they felt really embarrassed and haven’t really come back to church since. I hope when the little brother gets baptized it will change their feelings about the Church, but well see.

We just started teaching Mario. He went to church this last week and it was really great. He is super strong. He trained in karate for 10 years and he can use nunchucks! It is super cool. I tried but they are really hard and if you don’t use them right you can really get hurt. He is cool but he said he has had more than 80 girlfriends! So he is a little bit of a player, but I am hoping he can change that.

Ok something super funny but cool is, do you remember when my companion said he was a brake dancer. Well, it wasn’t a lie. He was super good. Its weird, but cool to see the dude brake dance, haha.

This Thursday we are having a multi-mission meeting with the north mission, so If I get lucky I can see Elder Baldwin, maybe.

It is crazy to see how fast this adventure is going by. It's weird because I have always known I was going to be a missionary, but it's crazy to say the dream is almost half over =(

I’m super happy my family is happy and doing great! Love you guys!  Please be safe!!!! LOVE YOU MOM!

  

Q) Did you get my valentine/St. Patrick's Day package yet? I sent it on February

     2?   A) Nope

Q) How do you work out alone? A) My companion reads and I workout in the

     same room.

Q) Any p-day activities? We are going to have a baseball game next week.

Q) I heard that there was I was an earthquake the week before last and you didn't mention it. Was 
     everything ok and did you feel it? A) It was nothing. Most of Managua didn't feel it.

     

Bello Amancer Week 39

This week was great! We have 2 families progressing and we are right on the edge of baptizing both of them. Also my district is killing it! We're doing awesome. And yes I'm prideful and will say I have the best district in the world. Every one of them are workers and know why they are here. This last two weeks as a district we have had more than 36 investigators in church. That means all of us have been having 9 investigators weekly in the church!! It’s fun because; we're a team, as a district and each and every one of us want the best for our investigators. I think sports really helped me learn to work as a team. This last week we all had interviews and the President was happy to see that it's possible for us to baptize 28 people this month!

The funny but not so funny part of my week was we haven't had water for the past 3 days!!!! I have had to go to Elder Bennett's area to take showers, bummer right? I think I'm one of the first missionaries in our ward to say that investigators that can't go to church because there's no water, haha. Also something funny is that, this last week I went to another ward to help the other missionaries.  It was great but funny because the bishop had this huge dog under his chair during sacrament meeting. I asked the Elders if he always had the dog with him and they told me he won't go anywhere without his dog, haha. I was like, “only in Nicaragua.”

Well my companion is doing great. We have worked really hard everyday and really he is almost to the point where he doesn't need my help to do everything. I have learned that I have to tell people what their doing wrong to help them get better but I have also learned to do it with love. Elder Jovel is a great missionary and I'm excited to see where he goes in his mission. 

I wanted to say, I love you mom please be safe I miss you so much. Love you.

1) Did you find another house to live in? Nope

2) Why are you moving? I thought your house was one of the nicer houses in

    mission. You said that it had a hot water heater. A) The President says we

    can't move.

3) Did you get my valentines package? A ) No

Bello Amancer Week 38

Well, what a week, it was crazy! I think it was awesome too, because we had such a great week as a district. So not too many spiritual experiences, but this week stuff happened that was really cool.

Do you guys remember Bryan who I baptized? Well he has been going to church with me a lot and we talk.  He bought me the coolest gift this last week. He bought me a hammock. It’s awesome! It’s big blue and says Nicaragua. I’m going to see if I can get someone to send it home for me.

Also, Ok well, I’m training and let’s just say it is a lot of love. Ok, so one day we didn’t have water in the morning but when my companion checked he forgot to turn the water off so when we got home the water had flooded the bathroom with about 3 inches of water on the floor. Well, I knew he felt bad so I just acted like it was funny. I have got to say though; it was really funny because the floor is really slick in our house so it was hard to walk around without falling a lot.

The sad part is, that we are now looking for a new house to live. Don’t worry nothing was damaged.

Do you remember I told you that we have scorpions in our house? Well last night the big mama visited. The scorpion was like the size of my hand. But they are different here. They’re fat, slow, and don’t really do anything.

This week we worked in the less fortunate part of our area and we now have 3 families were teaching and they’re all progressing!!! The poor here are so nice. They give everything to help others. To help get the people from there to church we had a member who has a van go pick them all up. When we pulled up to church, the bishop just about died he thought it was so funny. He said, “When a white guy in a car shows up in a poor area, everyone follows.” I don’t know what that exactly means but it all right with me.

Love you!

Q) How did you get the late night baptism you spoke of last week approved?

A) Through the ZL, but the president got mad at them after, but not at me.

I know how to cook really good bananas!

My Hammock

My Comp.

Bello Amancer Week 37

WOW WHAT A WEEK!!!! WELL I'M A DAD!! I'm training!!! My companion is named Elder Jovle. I love him and we're going to have a lot of success. He is from El Salvador and likes to brag about how his country is very scary. He is very funny though.  He was a break-dancer before his mission too. I'm going to work very hard with him to be a great missionary!! Anyway we went back to a less fortunate part of our area and now we are teaching 2 families so that's really cool.

This week I had a really cool experience. So some Elders In my district have had 2 baptisms fall through in two weeks. On the day that one person was scheduled to get baptized, he got scared and ran. Anyway the ZL's were mad so I went to work with them last Saturday. When I visited the first person all I had to say was, "Let’s go man!" It was almost like I was on a football team again. And he got all amped up and he was baptized in the morning. The other person I was able to work with was an awesome experience. Last week I talked to her a ton about baptism and we got to be great friends her name is Sada. I think we got to be good friends because she has an attitude similar to my Mom. Anyway, she left to work and she left me a note that said something very cool. She said, "Elder Hironaka I know you really want me to be baptized and I know God wants me to be baptized and loves me. I know that some how he will prepare a way for me to be baptized."  After I read the note I asked her missionaries what time she would be home tonight and they said 10. So I told them be ready at 10 and that we were going to baptize her.  At 10 they called me and told me she doesn't want to be baptized right now. I told them to tell her to wait and that I wanted to talk to her. So not thinking I called a taxi to go to their area. Well, half way I looked in my wallet and I didn't have any money. I knew and thought then that this guy is going to have a fit when I tell him I don't have any money. When we got to the church to talk to her I opened the door and at my feet under a rock was 100 Cordoba!!! When my companion saw that he was like, "no way!"  I paid and after that I knew Sada would get baptized because that money was a miracle. I walked up to her and all I said is, "you ready? God has really prepared a way for you." She looked at me and with a huge smile and said, "Have you ever baptized someone at 11 at night?" I told her I'm going to start tonight. She laughed and said, "Let's go." Sada was baptized at 11:30. It was a great night in my mission and I don't think I will ever forget it.

Bello Amancer Week 36

Well It's your Elder. I want to say this week was a long week with a lot of stuff. I am going to start by saying this next week is changes. And this week I had a ton of work in other areas.

I worked with two new Elders that had a family get baptized and a marriage. It was cool but wow it was a lot of work, This Tuesday I was in interviews for 4 hours with them. I really like interviewing because I can feel the sprit a lot. Anyway, all of them passed the baptism interview but the day of the baptism the family was really nervous and in the water two of the daughters freaked out. I had to direct everything because their ward mission leader didn't show up. Long story short after trying to baptize them 6 times they were finally baptized and were confirmed.

Also, I said this week is changes. I have to say it's been great being Elder Aguilar's companion and I have learned more patience. We had a great time and a lot of success. But, I hope this next change I can train. My time with Elder Aguilar has taught me I can really train a missionary and have success.

It's also crazy to think you guys all are in Montana. Time has gone so fast I miss all of you guys so much please be safe on the slopes. 

I Want to tell you guys I'm really happy for you guys and I'm happy I'm here even know I'm not with my family. I know that we are going to be an eternal family and I'm really grateful to see and to help others here be eternal families too=) LOVE YOU!!!! BE SAFE!!!!

Q) How is the reactivation program working?

A) Its moving a long