Dear Family,
Mission life is great! I have been having a blast down here preaching the gospel. This week was a lot of administrative duties, but we still got to work in our area a little bit. We also had a baptism!!!!!!!!! Naomi got baptized and we had Elder Adams (one of the senior couples) do the baptism. He was thrilled to do the baptism and she was thrilled to get baptized. When she got baptized, she could hardly contain her happiness. She wanted it so badly and loves the opportunities that being baptized is going to bring into her life. She is doing great and loves reading the Book of Mormon. She even had things marked with a highlighter in the Book of Mormon that we gave her.
We also went out this week and had to spray all the mission houses with an insecticide. It has been really tiring and a bit rough being out of our area so much, but it was also really fun at the same time to see all of the missionaries and get to talk to them a little bit. We have some awesome missionaries out here. One of the highlight trips was going out to the city of San Pedro that is out on an island. We had to take a boat to get out there, so we got to cruise through the crystal clear waters of the Caribbean. When we were loading up to come home, we thought it would be super cool if we could ride up top with the captain instead of inside of the boat. We figured the worst he could say was no, so we went and asked him. He said that was fine with him, so Elder Hacking and I got to ride up on the top with him. While we were driving out, we saw a huge fish as well. It had a pretty good sized dorsal fin and was maybe 5 feet long. I didn’t get a super good look at it, but I am guessing it was probably a little shark. That made me want to jump in the water pretty bad! Haha.
We have changes coming up next week. We haven’t told everyone about their changes yet, but I am going to be heading back to El Salvador. I am super excited to be able to go back and get my Spanish a little better for the last 4 months of my mission. I am not really allowed to tell anyone about that yet, but you guys are family and not here in the mission, so I think I am good telling you.
Well that has been my week. It was a crazy one and this next one probably will be too. Have a great week! Love you!
Love,
Elder Black
Naomi’s Baptism
Jungle Drive
Visiting San Pedro